Add a note about HDD, enable throttling only for hybrid OSDs
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- Get some SATA or NVMe SSDs with capacitors (server-grade drives). You can use desktop SSDs
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with lazy fsync, but prepare for inferior single-thread latency. Read more about capacitors
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[here](../config/layout-cluster.en.md#immediate_commit).
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- If you want to use HDDs, get modern HDDs with Media Cache or SSD Cache: HGST Ultrastar,
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Toshiba MG08, Seagate EXOS or something similar. If your drives don't have such cache then
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you also need small SSDs for journal and metadata (even 2 GB per 1 TB of HDD space is enough).
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- Get a fast network (at least 10 Gbit/s). Something like Mellanox ConnectX-4 with RoCEv2 is ideal.
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- Disable CPU powersaving: `cpupower idle-set -D 0 && cpupower frequency-set -g performance`.
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- [Install Vitastor packages](../installation/packages.en.md).
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@@ -45,9 +48,10 @@ On the monitor hosts:
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}
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```
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- Initialize OSDs:
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- SSD-only: `vitastor-disk prepare /dev/sdXXX [/dev/sdYYY ...]`. You can add
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`--disable_data_fsync off` to leave disk cache enabled if you use desktop
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SSDs without capacitors.
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- SSD-only or HDD-only: `vitastor-disk prepare /dev/sdXXX [/dev/sdYYY ...]`.
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Add `--disable_data_fsync off` to leave disk write cache enabled if you use
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desktop SSDs without capacitors. Do NOT add `--disable_data_fsync off` if you
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use HDDs or SSD+HDD.
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- Hybrid, SSD+HDD: `vitastor-disk prepare --hybrid /dev/sdXXX [/dev/sdYYY ...]`.
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Pass all your devices (HDD and SSD) to this script — it will partition disks and initialize journals on its own.
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This script skips HDDs which are already partitioned so if you want to use non-empty disks for
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