Emre Kurnaz's IT Diary

Ceph Introduction Ceph  has evolved a lot after its birth at 2007, habing important milestones like  RedHat  and later on becomes  IBM  after they acquired RedHat. The users and administrators may have know a lot about it, but these milestones probably take the software a lot further that it was thought to be. After the IBM era, Ceph is aimed to have one major relase per year, keep the last 2 supported and expire the rest. One of the biggest advantages of Ceph is that it is horizontally scalable or in brief it has a scale out architecture. There are also several softwares serving storage under different orientation, such as  MinIO ,  GlusterFS ,  Open ZFS ,  DRDB ,  Lustre  etc. They all have pros and cons against each other. Of course this list can be extended including the proprietary softwares and appliances, but here we are mostly touching to opensource softwares. Since Ceph has a wide storage offerings, it can be used in many d...