1. Ceph – scale-out storage for low latency cloud applications
HPC on Wall Street, April 7, 2014 V4

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AGENDA
WHO IS INKTANK ?
INTRO TO CEPH
USE CASES
CUSTOMER PROFILES
INKTANK PORTFOLIO
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INKTANK AT A GLANCE
MISSION
To liberate your business from expensive, restrictive, and proprietary storage systems.
FOUNDED May 2012
STAFF 50
FUNDING $13m
HQ LA
VALUE PROPOSITION
Provide enterprise-grade products and services so that customers can efficiently evaluate, adopt and operate Ceph storage clusters.
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THE PROBLEM
Growth of data
Existing systems don’t scale
Increasing cost and complexity
Need to invest in new platforms ahead of time
IT Storage Budget
2010
2020
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THE SOLUTION
PAST: SCALE UP
FUTURE: SCALE OUT
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6. INKTANK VALUE PROPOSITION
CEPH
Radically changing the economics of storage.
HARDWARE
DATA CENTER
1–5¢
per GB/mo
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WHAT IS CEPH?
Ceph is a massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system that runs on commodity hardware.
Ceph delivers object, block, and file system storage in one self-managing, self-healing platform with no single point of failure.
Ceph ideally replaces legacy storage and provides a single solution for the cloud.
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8. Winner FinTech Innovation Lab
HOW WE GOT HERE
Winner FinTech Innovation Lab
PHILOSOPHY
Failure is normal
Scale out on commodity hardware
Everything runs on software
2013
Integrated into OpenStack
2012
Included in Linux kernel
THE COMPANY
2 years old
THE STORAGE SYSTEM
10 years in the making
2010
Open sourced
2006
Project starts at UCSC
2004
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9. ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS
APP
HOST/VM
CLIENT
RGW
A web services gateway for object storage, compatible with S3 and Swift
RBD
A reliable, fully-distributed block device with cloud platform integration
CEPHFS
A distributed file system with POSIX semantics and scale-out metadata management
LIBRADOS
A library allowing apps to directly access RADOS (C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP)
RADOS
A software-based, reliable, autonomous, distributed object store comprised of
self-healing, self-managing, intelligent storage nodes and lightweight monitors
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10. HYPERVISOR (Qemu/KVM)
CEPH WITH OPENSTACK
OPENSTACK
KEYSTONE API
SWIFT API
CINDER API
GLANCE API
NOVA
API
HYPERVISOR (Qemu/KVM)
CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY
(RGW)
CEPH BLOCK DEVICE
(RBD)
CEPH STORAGE CLUSTER
(RADOS)
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11. TOP OPENSTACK STORAGE DRIVERS
OPENSTACK USER SURVEY
OCTOBER 2013

12. WEB APPLICATION STORAGE
APP SERVER
APP SERVER
APP SERVER
APP SERVER
S3/Swift
S3/Swift
S3/Swift
S3/Swift
CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY
(RGW)
CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY
(RGW)
CEPH STORAGE CLUSTER
(RADOS)
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13. MULTI-SITE OBJECT STORAGE
WEB APPLICATION
WEB APPLICATION
APP SERVER
APP SERVER
CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY
(RGW)
CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY
(RGW)
CEPH STORAGE CLUSTER
(US-EAST)
CEPH STORAGE CLUSTER
(EU-WEST)
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14. CUSTOMER PROFILE: CERN RESEARCH / SCIENTIFIC DATA MANAGEMENT
Dr. Daniel van der Ster
CERN IT
Ceph has delivered a feature-complete solution to build up our cloud infrastructure. “
inktank.com/customer/cern/
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15. CUSTOMER PROFILE: BLOOMBERG ANALYTICS / PRIVATE CLOUD
Pravir Chandra
CTO Security Architect
We believe Ceph is the best choice for storage for OpenStack, and we are excited about our growing Ceph adoption and continuing our work with Inktank. “
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16. CUSTOMER PROFILE: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM PRIVATE CLOUD
Christoph Thiel
Senior Cloud Technology Manager
Knowing we have storage that we can rely on is priceless. Ceph answered our storage needs, hands down. “
inktank.com/customer/dtag/
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17. INKTANK PORTFOLIO DEPLOYMENT LIFECYCLE
ENTERPRISE SUBSCRIPTIONS
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
CEPH TRAINING
Production
Quickstart
Intro to Ceph
Pre-Production
Tuning
Ceph Operations
Academic
Performance
Advanced Ceph
OEM
Co-development
Openstack
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18. THANK YOU! Wolfgang Schulze VP Services wolfgang@inktank.com
@WolfgangInktank