BTW HPE provides some storage solutions where you can scale it up to 8 petabyte (in a single rack afaik).
I have a really small setup but i would personally look into a dl580 as VM host and having two for redundancy.
And a dual path storage system in my case I used a 2u MSA2400 (not sure if that is the latest name)
Since it could continue to scale up and provided dual path too.
I don't have experience running CEPH so I am not sure what are the hardware requirements for CEPH.
(Disclaimer I work at Hewlett Packard Enterprises with servers)
I have a really small setup but i would personally look into a dl580 as VM host and having two for redundancy. And a dual path storage system in my case I used a 2u MSA2400 (not sure if that is the latest name)
Since it could continue to scale up and provided dual path too.
I don't have experience running CEPH so I am not sure what are the hardware requirements for CEPH.
(Disclaimer I work at Hewlett Packard Enterprises with servers)