Case Study: Ceph
Jun Xu · Apress eBooks · 2018
Ceph, an open-source distributed storage platform, provides a unified interface for object-, block-, and file-level storage [33, 80, 34, 81]. This chapter presents the block-level workload characteristics of a WD WASP/EPIC microserver-based Ceph cluster. The analysis techniques presented can help you to understand the performance and drive characteristics of Ceph in production environments. In addition, I also identify whether SMR, hybrid disk, and SSD drives are suitable for the Ceph workload. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.