Mark had been increasingly hearing that customers wanted details on how Ceph performed on non-Intel systems. Red Hat purchased 10 servers with AMD processors in Q1 2021.
These servers also have some donated Samsung MZ-QLB3T80 3.84TB (Model: PM983) in each. 8 in the first two nodes and 6 in the rest. 64 total.
Purchasing ticket: https://redhat.service-now.com/surl.do?n=PNT0915434
Racking ticket: https://redhat.service-now.com/surl.do?n=PNT0915435
Samsung drive carriers purchasing ticket: https://redhat.service-now.com/surl.do?n=PNT1008475
Racking ticket: https://redhat.service-now.com/surl.do?n=PNT1008476
DAC Cables purchasing ticket: https://redhat.service-now.com/surl.do?n=PNT0960669
| Count | Manufacturer | Model | Capacity | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chassis | 1U | Dell | PowerEdge R6515 | N/A | |
| Mainboard | N/A | Dell | 0R4CNN | N/A | |
| CPU | 1 | AMD | AMD EPYC 7742 | 128 cores | |
| RAM | 8 DIMMs | Micron | 18ASF2G72PDZ-3G2E1 | 16GB | 128GB Total |
| SSD | 2 | Micron | MTFDDAV480TDS | 480GB | Behind hardware RAID1 for OS |
| NVMe | 1 | Dell | P4510 | 1TB | For OSD journals? |
| NIC | 2 ports | Dell | 1Gb | On-board. Unused. | |
| NIC | 2 ports | Broadcom | 57416 BaseT | 1/10Gb | Oops. Won't be using this. |
| NIC | 2 ports | Mellanox | ConnectX-6 | 100Gb | 1 port as uplink |
| BMC | 1 | Quanta | N/A | N/A | Reachable at $host.ipmi.sepia.ceph.com using usual IPMI credentials. |
These PXE using Legacy/BIOS mode and can be provisioned via Cobbler normally.
These nodes are connected to the officinalis QFX5200 (s/n WH0218170419 [formerly WH3619030401]) uplinked and managed by Red Hat IT. For an example of how to report an outage, see https://redhat.service-now.com/surl.do?n=INC1201508.
The 100Gb connection is the only uplink for now. The top-of-rack switch in that rack probably has capacity if we need a 1Gb uplink and reserve the 100Gb NIC for backend traffic.