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<section xml:id="object-storage-system-requirements"
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<title>System Requirements</title><para><emphasis role="bold">Hardware</emphasis>: OpenStack Object
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Storage specifically is designed to run on commodity hardware. </para>
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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><tr><td><para>Object Storage object servers</para></td>
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<td>
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<para>Processor: dual quad core</para><para>Memory: 8 or 12 GB RAM</para>
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<para>Disk space: optimized for cost per
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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 you can fit into
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the rack efficiently. You want to optimize
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these for best cost per GB while still getting
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industry-standard failure rates. At Rackspace,
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our storage servers are currently running
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fairly generic 4U servers with 24 2T SATA
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drives and 8 cores of processing power. RAID
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on the storage drives is not required and not
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recommended. Swift's disk usage pattern is the
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worst case possible for RAID, and performance
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degrades very quickly using RAID 5 or
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6.</para>
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<para>As an example, Rackspace runs Cloud
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Files storage servers with 24 2T SATA
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drives and 8 cores of processing power.
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Most services support either a worker or
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concurrency value in the settings. This
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allows the services to make effective use
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of the cores available.</para></td></tr>
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<tr><td><para>Object Storage container/account servers</para></td><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 SQLite databases. </para></td></tr>
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<tr><td><para>Object Storage proxy server</para></td>
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<td>
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<para>Processor: dual quad core</para><para>Network: one 1 GB Network Interface Card (NIC)</para></td>
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<td><para>Higher network throughput offers better performance for
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supporting many API requests.</para>
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<para>Optimize your proxy servers for best CPU
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performance. The Proxy Services are more
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CPU and network I/O intensive. If you are
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using 10g networking to the proxy, or are
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terminating SSL traffic at the proxy,
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greater CPU power will be required.</para></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Operating System</emphasis>: OpenStack currently runs on
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Ubuntu and the large scale deployment at Rackspace runs on Ubuntu 10.04
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LTS.</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Networking</emphasis>: 1000 Mbps are suggested. For
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OpenStack Object Storage, an external network should connect the outside
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world to the proxy servers, and the storage network is intended to be
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isolated on a private network or multiple private networks. </para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Database</emphasis>: For OpenStack Object Storage, a
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SQLite database is part of the OpenStack Object Storage container and
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account management process.</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Permissions</emphasis>: You can install OpenStack Object
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Storage either as root or as a user with sudo permissions if you configure
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the sudoers file to enable all the permissions.</para>
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</section>
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