Improving some aspects on your Ceph cluster

As performance optimization research might cost too much time and effort, here are some steps you might first want to try to improve your overall Ceph cluster. The first step is to deploy Ceph on newer releases of Linux and deploy on releases with long-term support. Secondly, update your hardware design and service placement. As […]

Best practices for CephFS

File storage is a data storage format in which data is stored and managed as files within folders. Why would you choose to use file storage? Well, the advantages of file storage include the following: 1. User-friendly interface: A simple file management and sharing system which are easy to understand for human users which makes […]

Follow up on Ceph

April 3rd, 2019 I posted a Linkedin article about the basics of Ceph, a cloud storage platform often used in combination with OpenStack. Since then, I got a lot of questions to explain a bit more of the mechanics of Ceph. As Fairbanks also incorporated Ceph service provider 42on, I started to dive a little […]