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 […]

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 […]

Object, block and file system storage in a single cluster

Cloud storage in your datacenter Storage growth for the coming years The International Data Corporation (IDC) has released a report on the ever-growing collective world’s data, a.k.a. the datasphere. Numbers are staggering: the IDC predicts that the collective sum of the world’s data will grow from 33 zettabytes this year to a 175ZB by 2025, […]