Published on : January 29, 2016 by Scott S
This tutorial aims at Openstack integration with CEPH Block device or implementing Rados Block Device(RBD) as the Storage Backend for Openstack Block Storage Service . To know more about RBD please see my post on CEPH ( The blog links are available in the Recommended Readings section) . To use Ceph Block Devices with OpenStack, […]
Published on : December 28, 2015 by Scott S
We have been discussing about Ceph in implementing an indefinite storage scaling system through my previous blogs ( 1, 2,3,4). Now its the right time for configure it to achieve an indefinite storage scaling system. In this article I am trying to guide through the steps to implement CEPH configuration on Ubuntu LTS. CEPH Configuration On […]
Published on : November 28, 2015 by Scott S
We had been discussing the necessities of indefinite storage scaling ( Part -1 ), basic concept of CEPH (Part -2 ) and its technical design and implementation process ( Part -3 ) through the last few blogs. Now let us have a detailed look into the working of the system ie how Ceph manages data storage […]
Published on : November 20, 2015 by Scott S
CEPH- TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE We had seen the basic CEPH architecture and design principles in the previous part. Let us get into the technical architecture details directly. The below diagram shows the very basic view of a Ceph storage architecture. Ceph Storage Cluster It is basically a reliable, easy to manage, distributed object storage cluster, that […]
Published on : November 10, 2015 by Scott S
To understand the CEPH storage architecture and architecture of an Infinite Storage System explained in Part-1, we need to first understand the very basics of information storage. In historic times, before the invention of paper and ink, humans shared information by passing them orally/verbally to one another. The only storage medium available then was the […]