CEPH & OpenStack
In a Nutshell
# who am i
• Storage Specialist @ CSC IT Center for Science
, Finland
• Extremely impressed with Ceph & OpenStack
• Active member of Ceph community
• Ceph blogger http://karan-mj.blogspot.fi/
LinkdIn :- http://www.linkedin.com/pub/karan-singh/17/a0/57b
What Is
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Open Source Software Defined Storage.
Unified - Object , Block & File Storage.
Distributed Storage.
Massively scalable.
Runs on commodity hardware.
Fault tolerant – no SPOF.
Self managing , Self healing.
Ceph Universal Storage System
Ceph Technical Overview
Ceph Internals
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Open Source Cloud Computing platform
Provides Infrastructure as a service ( IaaS )
Is a collection of projects ( components )
Simple to implement , massively scalable.
No vendor lock-in.
OpenStack Architecture
OpenStack Components
• Compute

Nova
Swift for Object

• Storage
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Horizon
Network
Glance
Telemetry
Keystone

Cinder for Block
Dashboard
Neutron
Imaging
Ceilometer
Authentication

CEPH
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Ceph & OpenStack
Ceph for OpenStack
• Provides Object & Block Storage for OpenStack
• Provides Unified Storage
How does Ceph Do ?
Benefits of Ceph
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Heterogeneous commodity hardware.
No vendor lock-in.
Lower cost per Gigabyte.
Scalable to many Petabytes.
Linear scaling with linear performance increase
Seamless Integration with OpenStack.
– De Facto Storage backend for OpenStack
– Unified Storage to OpenStack ( Object & Block)

• + Everything what other enterprise storage does
Thank You

Content Credit : Ceph Community , OpenStack Community , InkTank
This document is produced just for educational and technology learning purpose

Ceph and Openstack in a Nutshell