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SUSE Enterprise Storage on 

HPE Apollo 4200/4500 System Servers 

Sept 1, 2017 

Choosing HPE density-optimized servers as  

SUSE Enterprise Storage building blocks 

 

 

 

Reference guide 

 

Summary of Contents for Apollo 4200

Page 1: ...SUSE Enterprise Storage on HPE Apollo 4200 4500 System Servers Sept 1 2017 Choosing HPE density optimized servers as SUSE Enterprise Storage building blocks Reference guide...

Page 2: ...y Ceph 5 Solution 7 SUSE Enterprise Storage v4 7 Hewlett Packard Enterprise value for a Ceph storage environment 8 SUSE value 8 Server platforms 8 Configuration guidance 12 General configuration recom...

Page 3: ...urce unified block file and object storage solution that Has software that offers practical scaling from one petabyte to well beyond a hundred petabytes of data Lowers upfront solution investment and...

Page 4: ...age solutions are a challenge to manage and control at massive scale Management silos and user interface limitations make it harder to deploy new storage into business infrastructure Why SUSE Enterpri...

Page 5: ...le disk based target mechanisms These applications are able to leverage the distributed storage technology provided by SUSE Enterprise Storage as a disk backup device The advantages of this architectu...

Page 6: ...rs Three or more OSD nodes recommended Apollo 4000 servers One or more RGW typically ProLiant DL360 severs Optional iSCSI gateway one or more ProLiant DL360 server Density optimized Apollo 4000 server...

Page 7: ...her reduce capital and operational costs for your storage infrastructure with a truly unified block object and files solution with production ready Ceph filesystem CephFS adding native filesystem acce...

Page 8: ...ted as not affecting IOPS on spinning media for low performance impact and is transparent to the operating system for ease of use This means any drive supported on the server can be used giving much m...

Page 9: ...Voltage Memory 16 DIMM slots Maximum of 1024GB 16 x 64GB per server tray OS drive controller drives HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i SATA RAID controller for the two server node SFF drives and M 2 drives...

Page 10: ...rack Uses Gen9 HPE Flexible Slot Power Supplies which provides support for 800 W 48 VDC and 277 VAC environments in addition to standard AC environments for 800 W and 1400 W Platinum and 800 W Titani...

Page 11: ...up to 3 x PCIe 3 0 8x slots FlexibleLOM slots with a single processor On System Management HPE ILO 4 Management Engine Optional HPE iLO Advanced Cluster Management optional HPE Insight Cluster Managem...

Page 12: ...recommended cluster size sounds large consider whether SUSE Enterprise Server is the right solution Smaller amounts of storage that don t grow at unstructured data scales could stay on traditional bl...

Page 13: ...n cause the loss of multiple chunks Keeping cluster nodes single function makes it simpler to plan CPU and memory requirements for both typical operation and failure handling Extra RAM on an OSD host...

Page 14: ...cation on the cluster network for every actual I O It is recommended to bond all 10GbE links with LACP and segment the public and backend traffic via VLANs It is recommended to reserve a separate 1GbE...

Page 15: ...r 1 761878 B21 HPE H244br FIO Smart HBA 2 726821 B21 HPE Smart Array P440 4G Controller 1 727258 B21 HPE 96 w Megacell Batt Cntrl Bd 1 808967 B21 HPE A4500 Mini SAS Dual P440 Cable Kit 2 655710 B21 HP...

Page 16: ...ctured data performance capabilities of SAN and NAS are often less important than cost per gigabyte of storage at scale Management of the quantity of storage and sites is complicated and guaranteeing...

Page 17: ...pools contain many PGs and many PGs can map to one OSD Pool Logical human understandable partitions for storing objects Pools set ownership access to objects the number of object replicas the number o...

Page 18: ...Inc Intel Xeon is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the U S and other countries The OpenStack Word Mark is either a registered trademark service mark or trademark service mark of the OpenStack Foun...

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