The document outlines the roadmap for Red Hat Ceph Storage from 2016, detailing product life cycles and major features for versions 1.3 and 2.0. It highlights improvements in management, reliability, and performance, including bug fixes, new deployment features, and enhanced storage policies across different versions. Additionally, it emphasizes that all information is confidential and subject to change without notice.

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Red Hat Ceph Storage
Road-Map - January 2016

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Disclaimer
The content set forth herein is Red Hat confidential
information and does not constitute in any way a binding or
legal agreement or impose any legal obligation or duty on
Red Hat.
This information is provided for discussion purposes only
and is subject to change for any or no reason.

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Red Hat Ceph Storage Life-Cycle
v1.3
v2.0
Jun ‘15 Jun ‘16 Jun ‘17 Jun ‘18
3-year Life Cycle
Production Phase 1
Production Phase 2

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Description Production Phase 1
(Year 1)
Production Phase 2
(Years 2 & 3)
Major bug fixes yes yes
Minor bug fixes yes yes*
Security errata yes yes
Bug fix errata yes yes
New features (backport potential) yes* no
Updated install image yes no
Partner enablements additions yes no
Life Cycle Definitions
* need full product + engineering review prior to commitment

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Red Hat Ceph Storage
Version 1.3

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Red Hat Ceph Storage v1.3
● Ceph Hammer
● 3 year Life-Cycle
● Supported on RHEL 7
● Themes
○ The Petabyte Release
○ Robustness at scale
○ Performance Improvements
○ Operational Efficiency

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RHCS v1.3 - RGW
Improvements since RHCS v1.2
● New implementation based on Civetweb
● S3 Versioning
● Swift Storage Policies
● Bucket Sharding
● IPv6 Support
● SELinux Support (due 1.3.2)

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RHCS v1.3 - RBD
Improvements since RHCS v1.2
● Copy on Read (Improves write latency)
● Faster operations on images (resize,
flatten, import/export)
● Faster booting via Read Ahead
● Allocation Hinting

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RHCS v1.3 - RADOS
Improvements since RHCS v1.2
● Improved performance on SSD
● Improved rebalancing logic and pause
● Time-scheduled scrubbing
● Improved performance with degraded
objects
● IPv6 Support
● SELinux Support (due 1.3.2)

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RHCS v1.3 - Management
Improvements since RHCS v1.2
● Ceph REST API (Calamari) supports
management of multiple clusters, CRUSH
management
● Satellite 6 support
● Tech-Preview: puppet-ceph & Foreman-
based installer

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Red Hat Ceph Storage
Version 2.0

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RHCS v2.0
● Based on Ceph Jewel
● Major feature release
● 3 year life-cycle
● asd
● Supported on RHEL 7
● Scheduled for June ’15

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RHCS v2.0 - RGW
Expected Features
● Global Clusters (active/active)
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● LDAP/AD Support
● AWS4 Support
● NFS (Tech Preview)
Post-Jewel
● STS (auth federation, e.g., kerberos)
● Storage policies (policy-based tiering)
● Swift Per-Tenant Namespace
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● Swift Object Expiration
● Swift Large Object (SLO) support
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● Keystone v3 Support
● Bucket re-sharding

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RHCS v2.0 - RBD
Expected Features
● RBD Mirroring (Volume Replication)
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● iSCSI (with RHEL 7.3)
● Improved Snapshot Management (Deep
Flattening)
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● Snapshot renaming
● ddd
● Fast Image Diffs
● NBD driver (librbd-backed kernel device)
● Persistent client-side caching
Post-Jewel
● Client caching with ordered writeback
(point-in-time crash consistency)
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RHCS v2.0 - RADOS
Expected Features
● Programmatic view of scrub log and repair
● Security features (all processes run as non-
root)
● Performance optimizations for flash
● BlueStore (Tech Preview)
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Post-Jewel
● QoS: IOPS reservations, proportional
sharing
● Small write support for erasure coded
pools (e.g., consumed directly by RBD)

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RHCS v2.0 - CephFS (Tech Preview)
Expected Features
● Active/Passive MDS
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● Filesystem Repair tool
● FUSE Support (with RHCS 2.0)
● Ceph kernel driver support with RHEL 7.3
● Support for Manila (tech preview) in RHEL-
OSP9 via native driver (FUSE/kernel) in VM
● Multi-tenant security
● Multiple file systems per cluster
Post-Jewel
● Active/Active MDS
● Manila hypervisor-mediated driver
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RHCS v2.0 - Management
Expected Features
● New Installer (based on Foreman)
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● New GUI LifeCycle Management tool
(Project USM)
● 100% RESTful API coverage of Ceph
operations
● Satellite 5 support (TBC)
And...
● Hyperconverged OpenStack Storage (OSP)

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