First Large Scale Ceph Storage Microserver Cluster Unveiled
April 26 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
The future of microservers meets The Future of
Storage™
OPENSTACK SUMMIT – The Ceph Community, a Red Hat, Inc.
(NYSE:RHT), sponsored worldwide collection of developers working to
build the popular Ceph software-defined storage project, today
announced the first implementation of an innovative large-scale
Ceph storage cluster environment. This cost-effective,
energy-efficient four watt converged microserver, developed by
WDLabs™, a business growth incubator of storage solutions leader
Western Digital Corporation, is the first demonstrated solution
offering true flexibility of applications executing on a
microserver.
As the enterprise expands into cloud architecture and scale-out
systems, it is becoming increasingly important to have hardware
profiles that match specific needs and designs. The large scale
Ceph storage cluster demonstration using 504 WDLabs converged
microservers allows users to load any operating system and software
on the device, enabling Ceph storage to run directly on the drive.
Testing conducted by WDLabs showed that implementation of the
server can also reduce costs when building out future Ceph storage
and Red Hat application clusters.
This self-contained design is an ideal match for Ceph’s
scale-out architecture. The Ceph object storage daemon (OSD) fits
on each microserver, creating a flat parallel space. The
microserver architecture is designed to localize the problem if a
server is ever lost without impacting the entire rack of JBOD
drives.
Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance,
high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing
solutions, contributed their open-source based total solutions
expertise to this collaborative effort, providing specialized
chassis for disaggregated storage, core servers and networking.
This collaboration among industry leaders is a strong example of
the depth and breadth of the Ceph community.
Development and demonstration of the WDLabs converged
microserver is a step forward for the Ceph community. This
demonstrates the enthusiasm of market leaders to work together to
develop innovative solutions for real business challenges, and to
facilitate revolutionary change in the storage industry.
Supporting Quotes
Patrick McGarry, Ceph community lead, Red Hat
“We are excited to be working with innovative industry leaders
to create solutions that help advance the state of the art in both
software and hardware. Implementing Ceph storage in a microserver
environment can provide scalable growth and ease of management. The
ability to pair a distributed style of hardware with distributed
software offers an incredible asset to organizations building
high-capacity data storage solutions to better fit cloud
datacenters of the future.”
Richard E. Rutledge, senior vice president of marketing,
WDLabs
“The WDLabs converged microserver is designed to connect users
to their data in the most direct path possible. The flexibility of
the open platform enables scale-out software-defined storage such
as Ceph, plus other data applications and analytics, to more
quickly create value from the stored data. This platform is simple
to deploy and offers a resilient foundation for scale-out
applications.”
Additional details on the collaborative efforts to create the
new Ceph storage cluster environment can be found on the Ceph blog.
This provides information on the 500 drives that WDLabs has
assembled, the technologies involved in the project, early test
results, and more.
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