Red Hat Ceph 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.