IBM Storage Ceph

One of the main advantages of Red Hat Ceph Storage is its Self-healing and having the ability to provide object, block, and file storage in a single platform. This allows organizations to easily manage and access their data, regardless of the type of data or the specific use case. Additionally, the software is designed to be highly scalable, which means that organizations can easily add more storage capacity as their data grows.

Large scale data storage: Red Hat Ceph Storage is designed to be highly scalable and can handle large amounts of data. It's well suited for organizations that need to store and manage large amounts of data, such as backups, images, videos, and other types of multimedia content.Cloud-based deployments: Red Hat Ceph Storage can provide object storage services for cloud-based applications such as SaaS and PaaS offerings. It is well suited for organizations that are looking to build their own cloud storage infrastructure or to use it as a storage backend for their cloud-based applications.High-performance computing: Red Hat Ceph Storage can be used to provide storage for high-performance computing (HPC) applications, such as scientific simulations and other types of compute-intensive workloads. It's well suited for organizations that need to store

Red Hat Ceph Storage is an excellent solution to manage the data of your data center. I use it to manage the data of telco applications called as VNFs & it provides automatic software-defined storage management for your cloud rack without a dependency on 3PP storage vendors like EMC & NetApp. The replication, resilience & recovery mechanisms are just awesome. Red Hat Ceph Storage gives you the flexibility to define separate storage pools (fast or slow pools) for separate applications & these pools can be defined on top of supported storage devices like SSD or NVMe. Once you setup Red Hat Ceph Storage then you don't have to worry about data replication & recovery unless & until it is a hardware fault.

Well suited for large-scale private data centers & almost all the places where mission-critical data is handled like -

• Enterprise
• Telcos
• Healthcare
• Banking
• IT, etc

This is because ceph provides you data management capabilities without 3rd party storage vendors

Less appropriate for POCs & lab environments because of initial setup complexities

We use Red Hat Ceph Storage to store large binary objects of unstructured data. We ended up in a situation where storing large objects in a relational database wasn’t cost effective to scale and due to this we changed so structured data is stored in a relational database while binary objects such as photos, videos and documents are stored in Red Hat Ceph Storage.

Red Hat Ceph Storage is a good solution if you have a need to store large amount of unstructured data and have a need to protect it with authorization. If you have a need to search for specific data in Red Hat Ceph Storage you often need to combine it with a relational database or search index like Elastic search. It’s hard to justify Red Hat Ceph Storage usage if you only need to handle limited amount of data.

Our company depends on this platform to store our data with modern advanced tools. My team depends on the information stored in this product to get analytics. Monitoring our operations is easy from reliable insights that keep our organization running. Shrinking storage volumes to store different scaled-down units is easy. Most of the data that is left unattended is currently in a safe environment and can be attended to later when the demand arises.

I believe in storage packages offered by this product and totally recommend it. The installation process of this tool is easy and customization to different clusters is flexible. The cost of purchasing depends on the purpose of the consumer and no further additional maintenance cost after purchasing. It is suitable for storing large volumes of data with powerful integrated data protection tools.

I used Red Hat Ceph Storage by deploying it within a larger PoC setup for a customer. The customer required a storage solution for storing VM disks and user data (files etc.).

Red Hat Ceph Storage was also used as a storage backend for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).

Since this was a PoC project, this solution was only used for a specific time.

Red Hat Ceph Storage is very well suited for providing fast and scalable object storage and storage for virtualization hosts. One of the main advantages is that Ceph allows horizontal scaling by adding more and more nodes within hours. A scenario where using Ceph is less appropriate is when one needs a distributed, POSIX-compliant filesystem. While CephFS is considered as production ready, there are other better solutions in many cases.

We where planning on using Ceph storage at one point as a replacement for our Netapp. We had the equipment available on hand in order to make it work but in the end we in our experimentation it wasn't quit the fit we where looking for. We where looking for a highly resilient storage medium to hold our production data and eventually to hold the VMs themselves.

It is absolutely, hands down the best storage solution for Open Stack. I would even argue it is the only solution if a company is operating at petabyte scale and need resiliency. The storage solution allows any organization to scale their environment using commodity hardware from top to bottom. It has a battle tested track record where it is even being used as the data storage back end for the Large Hadron Collider at Cern.