> don't have the physical rack space for the extra servers required for ceph Sure, it depends but the 140 drives (mentioned by secabeen) alone will take up a h

> don't have the physical rack space for the extra servers required for ceph Sure, it depends but the 140 drives (mentioned by secabeen) alone will take up a huge amount of space. Maybe I just wanted to point out that there might be a point when you have maxed out the storage capability of a single node and might want to consider a distributed storage setup.