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The Swift section of the install guide tends to assume that the user uses Ubuntu. This change provide more information for other distributions. backport: havana Closes-Bug: #1274473 Closes-Bug: #1274405 Change-Id: I1c1fbea43d29724067185e3ab261cd20b2e0ed72
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<section xml:id="object-storage-system-requirements"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
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<?dbhtml-stop-chunking?>
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<title>System requirements</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Hardware</emphasis>: OpenStack Object
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Storage is designed to run on commodity hardware.</para>
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<note>
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<para>When you install only the Object Storage and Identity
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Service, you cannot use the dashboard unless you also
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install Compute and the Image Service.</para>
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</note>
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<table rules="all">
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<caption>Hardware recommendations</caption>
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<col width="20%"/>
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<col width="23%"/>
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<col width="57%"/>
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<thead>
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<tr>
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<td>Server</td>
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<td>Recommended Hardware</td>
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<td>Notes</td>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<td><para>Object Storage object servers</para></td>
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<td>
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<para>Processor: dual quad
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core</para><para>Memory: 8 or 12 GB RAM</para>
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<para>Disk space: optimized for cost per GB</para>
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<para>Network: one 1 GB Network Interface Card
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(NIC)</para></td>
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<td><para>The amount of disk space depends on how much
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you can fit into the rack efficiently. You
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want to optimize these for best cost per GB
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while still getting industry-standard failure
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rates. At Rackspace, our storage servers are
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currently running fairly generic 4U servers
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with 24 2T SATA drives and 8 cores of
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processing power. RAID on the storage drives
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is not required and not recommended. Swift's
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disk usage pattern is the worst case possible
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for RAID, and performance degrades very
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quickly using RAID 5 or 6.</para>
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<para>As an example, Rackspace runs Cloud Files
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storage servers with 24 2T SATA drives and 8
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cores of processing power. Most services
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support either a worker or concurrency value
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in the settings. This allows the services to
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make effective use of the cores
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available.</para></td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><para>Object Storage container/account
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servers</para></td>
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<td>
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<para>Processor: dual quad core</para>
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<para>Memory: 8 or 12 GB RAM</para>
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<para>Network: one 1 GB Network Interface Card
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(NIC)</para></td>
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<td><para>Optimized for IOPS due to tracking with
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SQLite databases.</para></td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><para>Object Storage proxy server</para></td>
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<td>
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<para>Processor: dual quad
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core</para><para>Network: one 1 GB Network
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Interface Card (NIC)</para></td>
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<td><para>Higher network throughput offers better
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performance for supporting many API
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requests.</para>
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<para>Optimize your proxy servers for best CPU
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performance. The Proxy Services are more CPU
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and network I/O intensive. If you are using 10
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GB networking to the proxy, or are terminating
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SSL traffic at the proxy, greater CPU power is
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required.</para></td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Operating system</emphasis>: OpenStack
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Object Storage currently runs on Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora,
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openSUSE, or SLES.</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Networking</emphasis>: 1 Gbps or 10
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Gbps is suggested internally. For OpenStack Object Storage, an
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external network should connect the outside world to the proxy
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servers, and the storage network is intended to be isolated on
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a private network or multiple private networks.</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Database</emphasis>: For OpenStack
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Object Storage, a SQLite database is part of the OpenStack
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Object Storage container and account management
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process.</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Permissions</emphasis>: You can
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install OpenStack Object Storage either as root or as a user
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with sudo permissions if you configure the sudoers file to
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enable all the permissions.</para>
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</section>
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