Ceph is a popular open-source project for distributed storage, commonly used in OpenStack environments, which offers tremendous flexibly for deployers to choose their preferred hardware to run the cluster.
We have lessons learned from spending over a year experimenting with enterprise storage as the foundation for Ceph. By adding intelligence to the storage itself, a Ceph cluster can maintain consistent performance even when storage media fails. We show you have to build deterministic performance, while increasing cluster reliability, while managing the cost.
During this session, we will go over what considerations are required to achieve this enterprise class design, as well as discuss our experience testing and tuning enterprise storage with Ceph; as well as direct comparisons of cost, performance, performance under media failure, and capacity scaling capabilities of the server based and enterprise storage based Ceph clusters—we hope you find the results as compelling as we did.
