Ceph is octopus of the storage
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 …
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What is Red Hat Ceph Storage?
Red Hat Ceph Storage is a software defined storage option.
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January 14, 2023
Red Hat Ceph Storage Review
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.
- Data replication
- Data recovery (in case of a HDD fault)
- Ease of maintenence via Ceph CLI
- GUI based mainetenence should be developed
- Unable to detect storage latencies
- VM to disk mapping should be visible so as to save some critical applications data in case of HDD failures
- Self healing
- Vendor agnostic
- Provisioning of Block storage
- Cost saving in terms of capex (you can reduce EMC & NetApp like dependency)
- One time setup & then easy provisioning of storage
- Requirement of competent engineers for maintenence
Our data centers use simpler hardware & Red Hat Ceph Storage is simpler to use for moderate-sized data centers with simple hardware. Also, glusterFS is more suitable for a large amount of data (Zetabytes) with large file sizes which is not our requirement. It is easy to make customer-specific customizations in Red Hat Ceph Storage
January 14, 2023
Cost effective object storage
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.
- Cost effective storage
- Partitioning data in separate buckets
- Ability to store large individual objects
- Authorization on object level could be improved
- Helper libraries to access Red Hat Ceph Storage from various languages could be improved
- Ability to attach structured metadata to stored objects could be improved
- Scalable storage solution
- Clustering support
- Support for authorization on bucket level
- Cost effective scalable storage
- Ability to store large individual objects
- Simplified management thanks to ability to use separate buckets instead of separate database servers for each application
MongoDB offers better search ability compared to Red Hat Ceph Storage but it’s more optimized for large number of object while Red Hat Ceph Storage is preferred if you need to store binary data or large individual objects. To get acceptable search functionality you really need to compile Red Hat Ceph Storage with another database where the search metadata related to Red Hat Ceph Storage objects are stored.
October 25, 2017
Red Hat Ceph Storage is a great storage solution, but the management console could be better
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 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.
- Very scalable solution
- Providing very fast storage
- Very good integration with KVM, libvirt and OpenStack through Cinder
- Deployment of Ceph cluster through the Management Console might fail in some cases; better error reporting would be a good improvement there.
- The Management Console should provide more options for configuring the Ceph cluster in detail.
- There should be a mechanism for distributing ceph.conf to all nodes.
- Ceph allows my customer to scale out very fast.
- Ceph allows distributing storage objects through multiple server rooms.
- Ceph is fault-taulerant, meaning the customer can lose a server room and would still be able to access the storage.
- LizardFS, DRBD and GlusterFS
Red Hat Ceph storage offers an object store, which the other solutions do not. In addition, it is perfect for providing scalable block storage to virtualization products.