Traditionally, we recommend one SSD cache drive for 5 to 7 HDD. properly, today, SSDs are not used as a cache tier, they cache at the Bluestore layer, as a WAL device.
Depending on the use case, capacity of the Bluestore Block.db can be 4% of the total capacity (Block, CephFS) or less (Object store).
Especially for a small Ceph cluster (less than 1 PB raw storage), it makes sense to consider all-SSD storage, particularly for the Block use case, as prices of solid state and HDD are not that distant for medium capacity drives.
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Also please consider the following:
It is important to understand the type or workload (I/Os) will you receive. Usually when you have many customers on the cluster the cache fills up quickly and it will not help as much.
Traditionally, we recommend one SSD cache drive for 5 to 7 HDD. properly, today, SSDs are not used as a cache tier, they cache at the Bluestore layer, as a WAL device.
Depending on the use case, capacity of the Bluestore Block.db can be 4% of the total capacity (Block, CephFS) or less (Object store).
Especially for a small Ceph cluster (less than 1 PB raw storage), it makes sense to consider all-SSD storage, particularly for the Block use case, as prices of solid state and HDD are not that distant for medium capacity drives.