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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to get input from the community on a ‘realistic’ size of a small Swift cluster that might be deployed & used in the field for production. SAIO / test / lab setups aren’t a consideration. I’m interested in hearing about both private
and public cluster sizes that are deployed for actual. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 4 nodes or fewer doesn’t seems pretty small – 6 or 8 seems like a more realistic size of a small cluster. But I don’t have any actual data/customer experience for those assumptions.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Followup questions: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Given that cluster size, do all nodes act as both Swift proxy and storage nodes? I assume they do.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">How big does a cluster get before node roles are separated?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks for the input,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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