From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Mitchell Subject: Re: questions on networks and hardware Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:51:20 -0500 Message-ID: <50FC3CA8.4070608@gmail.com> References: <50FC2682.3020601@widodh.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-yh0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:38090 "EHLO mail-yh0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752284Ab3ATS7j (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:59:39 -0500 Received: by mail-yh0-f46.google.com with SMTP id 25so47790yhr.19 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:59:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50FC2682.3020601@widodh.nl> Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Wido den Hollander Cc: John Nielsen , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Wido den Hollander wrote: > No, not really. 1Gbit should be more then enough for your monitors. 3 > monitors should also be good. No need to go for 5 or 7. I have 5 monitors, across 16 different OSD-hosting machines...is that going to *harm* anything? (I have had issues in my cluster when doing upgrades where my monitor count fell to 3, so it felt like having the extra was nice, at that point.) Thanks, Jeff