Announcing Beta For Local SSD

Re:Announcing Beta For Local SSD by pwarner on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @03:52PM (#8529457)

With the provisioning flexibility I wonder if these are internal or external? If internal, seems like they eat a lot of cost if they are never provisioned. If external, how do they keep them as fast as local?

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Re:Announcing Beta For Local SSD by wmf on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @04:03PM (#8529546)

They're using NVMe, so the SSDs are either really local or at least in the same rack using a PCIe switch. One could imagine that different servers have different numbers of SSDs and when you create a VM with N SSDs they put it on a server with that many.

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Re:Announcing Beta For Local SSD by runarb on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @05:14PM (#8530014)

That is quit interesting. I am currently looking into seting up a virtual platform that will use SSD disks.

Do you have a source I can look at for more info on what SSD setup Google Compute Engine uses?

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Re:Announcing Beta For Local SSD by wmf on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @05:33PM (#8530121)

TFM: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/local-ssd

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Re:Announcing Beta For Local SSD by justincormack on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @06:34PM (#8530389)

NVMe has virtual disk devices, so you can create any number of devices to pass to VMs.

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Re:Announcing Beta For Local SSD by wmf on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @06:42PM (#8530420)

I think pwarner's point is that if a server has 1.5 TB of flash but the customer only purchases 375 GB, that's real money being wasted.

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