Ceph

Scalable and highly available data storage

Ceph is a unified, distributed storage system designed for excellence, reliability, and scalability. In addition, Ceph has an Object Store, which can be used, among other things, as an alternative to Amazon S3.

Thanks to the intelligent architecture, later expansion is possible without great effort and allows almost endless scalability.

Features

Not just a storage

Ceph distinguishes itself by being built from the ground up for maximum scalability and high availability. So it is ahead of the competition in terms of fault tolerance and bandwidth.

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Object Storage

Ceph’s software libraries provide client applications with direct access to the object-based RADOS storage system and form the basis for some of Ceph’s advanced features, including RADOS Block Device (RBD), RADOS Gateway (RGW), and the Ceph File System (CephFS).

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Block Storage

The Ceph object storage system is not limited to native binding or RESTful APIs. When Ceph is used as a block device, Ceph will automatically distribute and replicate the data across the entire cluster. Ceph’s RADOS Block Device (RBD) can also be integrated into virtual machines (KVMs).

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File system

The Ceph object storage system has one important difference to many other systems: Ceph supports a traditional POSIX file system interface. Even though object storage is becoming increasingly popular, they still complement traditional file systems very often.

Storage as a Service

We have already prepared everything for you

Our distributed and replicated ceph storage is spread across two independent data centers and ready for your workload. Use the best solution for your needs. Add additional ceph-RBD volumes or local latency-critical SSDs to your VM.

Or just save your assets on our Swift and S3 compatible storage. For example, images can be delivered directly from our storage gateway. Without your own web server.

Why wait and not try it right away?

Here we go!

News

Articles from our Blog

Ceph Mimic | Using loop devices as OSD

by Tim Albert | Nov 14, 2018 | Ceph, English

For quite some time we have been using ceph-deploy to deploy OSD in folders during the Ceph trainings held by Netways. This worked perfectly with jewel, but newer versions don't allow this behaviour anymore. There are several reasons for this, however, as we have a...

Gnocchi und Archiv Policies

by Achim Ledermueller | Sep 12, 2018 | Ceph, Datenbanken, German, Open Source, Storage und Backup

Gnocchi ist eine time series database die aus dem OpenStack Projekt hervorgegangen ist. Da Gnocchi erst 2014 entstanden ist, wurde versucht die Schwächen vorhandener Lösungen zu umgehen. Im Vergleich fallen mir vor allem folgenden Features auf: Mandantenfähigkeit...