SSDs in this timeline isn't possible, not if we want them under warranty with the system vendor .

In T166341#3293262, @RobH wrote:

Is this something that you want done in next years budget, or is it now invalid? Please advise.

Heh, we will need it next FY but as @Ottomata points out in the desc, there is some extra $$$ left from this year's hardware budget. Can these be paid for by the end of the FY and received afterwards once available?

Apparently the stuff has to be actually received at the datacenter for it to count towards this year's budget.

Well, that's unfortunate. We definitely want them under warranty as it's an important production system. We still want them, so I guess we'll have to figure it out for next FY.

Do we still want to do this?

Can you guys provide me with the exact hostnames of the kafka hostnames you want upgraded? I see quite a few, and the hostnames of kafka and analytics systems don't tend to match the same standards as the rest. I rather not assume!

@RobH I am talking with Faidon about this right now for budgeting next FY. I think we are not going to add SSDs, but instead, get a couple more nodes and increase RAM in these.

But, anyway, the nodes are kafka[12]00[123]

For reference, the Kafka cluster nodes are defined in Puppet in hieradata/common.yaml

So it looks like kafka[12]00[123] are all misc systems with 4 * 4TB LFF hot swap bays. Those cannot easily be converted to SFF, since Dell doesn't sell a drive tray that will fit an SFF in an LFF hot swap bay.

This means that these aren't really feasible to upgrade to SSD.

IRC Update: It seems we'll likely quote out 2 more nodes per DC with SSDs rather than the HDD used in previous kafka systems.

I think this means this task can be declined?