1. Proposed title of this feature request 

Requesting a tunable for disabling OSD journal creation.  
  
2. Who is the customer behind the request?  

Account name : VOLKSWAGEN AG
Account #    : 495233
  
TAM customer : YES
Strategic    : YES

3. What is the nature and description of the request?  

By default 'ceph-deploy' creates the OSD journal on the OSD disk itself (if no journal disks are specified), or creates it on the disks specified.

The customer is using enterprise level SSDs with PFC (Power Fail Circuitry) and these disks guarantee all writes on the SSD write cache and those writes will be persistent even on a power failure.

They need a feature to disable journaling for Ceph, or a tunable with which this can be disabled at the time of OSD creation.

4. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)  

They want to reduce the number of I/O going on to the disks. If a journal is present, the writes first hit the journal, and subsequently the OSDs. Since the SSDs they use are enterprise grade and support battery-backed caches, they want a feature in ceph-deploy to disable the creation on journals.
  
5. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here)  

A switch in ceph-deploy to disable the creation of journalling, at the time of OSD preparation.
  
6. For each functional requirement listed, specify how Red Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented.  

This can be easily tested both by Red Hat, and the customer.
  
7. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat Bugzilla?  

-NIL-
  
8. Does the customer have any specific timeline dependencies and which release would they like to target (i.e. RHEL5, RHEL6)?  

-NIL-
  
9. Is the sales team involved in this request and do they have any additional input?  

-NIL-
  
10. List any affected packages or components.  

ceph
  
11. Would the customer be able to assist in testing this functionality if implemented? 

Yes