<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 November 2015 at 10:03, Thing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thing.thing@gmail.com" target="_blank">thing.thing@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Does the arbiter node have to be high spec? ie I have a raspberrypi as my bastion host / system controller, if its a simple "write to node 2 as 1 is off" sort of thing the Pi might cope. If its like that at all of course, the Pi cant do any bandwidth and i/o to speak of even with an added sata port.<br><div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I believe low spec is ok for a arbiter node, but preferably someone with actual experience could speak to that :) I suspect a raspberry pi would be pushing the limits.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I used a intel celerelon nuc as a 3rd node for a long while in a ceph cluster, that worked well.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Alternatively you could use a VM on one of your nodes as a 3rd node, for testing purposes. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Lindsay</div>
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