Ceph

Ceph is an Open Source software defined storage platform designed to provide highly scalable object, block and file-based storage in a unified system. Designed for flexibility, Ceph integrates seamlessly with cloud infrastructures like OpenStack and supports diverse workloads with robust, self-healing and self-managing capabilities.

Key benefits of Ceph include:

• Scalability: Ceph is designed to scale from terabytes to exabytes, easily meeting the needs of small businesses to large enterprises.
• Resilience: With built-in redundancy and data replication, Ceph ensures data integrity and availability even in the face of hardware failures.
• High performance: Using a distributed architecture, Ceph delivers high throughput and low latency, making it ideal for high-demand workloads.
• Cost-effective: As open source, Ceph eliminates licensing costs and its ability to run on commodity hardware reduces CapEx.
• Versatility: Ceph supports a variety of storage types - object, block and file - on a single platform, simplifying storage management and reducing operational complexity.

Lifecycle Management of Ceph in OSISM

The Ceph Lifecycle Management starts with the initial provisioning and deployment of the system. After that configuration of Ceph takes place, with automated adjustments where needed. Ceph runs smoothly at this point. Maintenance with self healing recovering modes, as well as upgrades and patches with automated and controlled restarts, run whenever necessary.