[Moosefs-users] Hardware choice

[Schmurfy <sch...@gm...>]

Hi,

I did some tests with moosefs on vms and "standard" machines (and I really
love his project !) but now I need to decide on some rackable hardware to
install in a datacenter and that's where things become
annoying since I have no idea what to choose :(

I was thinking of starting with two nodes one of them being the master as
well as a chunk server and the other will be a backup master and a chunk
server too so I suppose both
servers will need a decent amount of memory and a not too slow cpu but they
don't require some high end muti-core processor and of course they will
need some disks.

I think we will start with less than 10Tb on the cluster and replication
goals set to 2.

We are currently using some ProLiant DL160 G6 which has 4 cores running at
2.0GHz but judging by the theoretical needs of our moosefs machine I think
these servers
are way too powerful for this usage.


Does anyone can give me some advices on what would be a good start ?


Julien Ammous