The importancy of upgrading and updating Ceph consistently
During our Ceph consultancy projects, we often get questions about Ceph versions. A question we get a lot is about what Ceph version should be used, do I use the latest or an earlier version? Another question is about running different Ceph versions on one cluster, is this a bad thing? I thought it might […]
Best practices for cephadm and expanding your Ceph infrastructure
If you want to expand your Ceph cluster by adding a new one, it is good to know what the best practices are. So, here is some more information about cephadm and some tips and tricks for expanding your Ceph cluster. First a little bit about cephadm. Cephadm creates a new Ceph cluster by “bootstrapping” […]
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 […]