Network Architecture for Ceph Storage

 As data continues to grow exponentially storing today’s data volumes in an efficient way is a challenge. Traditional storage solutions neither scale-out nor make it feasible from Capex and Opex perspective, to deploy Peta-Byte or Exa-Byte data stores. OpenStack Ceph Storage is a novel approach to manage present day data volumes and provide users with reasonable access time at a manageable cost.

 

 Ceph is a massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage solution, which uniquely provides object, block and file system services with a single, unified Ceph Storage Cluster.

 Ceph uniquely delivers object, block, and file storage in one unified system. Ceph is highly reliable, easy to manage, and open-source. The power of Ceph can transform your company’s IT infrastructure and your ability to manage vast amounts of data. Ceph delivers extraordinary scalability –thousands of clients accessing petabytes or even Exa-bytes of data. A Ceph Node leverages commodity hardware and intelligent daemons, and a Ceph Storage Cluster accommodates large numbers of nodes, which communicate with each other to replicate and redistribute data dynamically. A Ceph Monitor can also be placed into a cluster of Ceph monitors to oversee the Ceph nodes in the Ceph Storage Cluster, thereby ensuring high availability.

 

 This architecture is a cost effective solution based on HPE Synergy Platform which can scale out to meet multi Peta Byte scale.