CEPH
AMBEDDED - ROBUST AND LOW POWER CEPH APPLIANCE
" We think reliability , scalability , and simplicity are keys to our offering to the enterprise storage market ," explains Aaron Joue , founder and CEO of Ambedded Technology . " Ambedded integrates Ceph software , the Arm microservers , and its tailorbuilt ceph manager GUI ( UVS manager ). With the nature of arm microservers , enterprise storage customers could start deploying ceph from a tiny cluster to a petabyte-scale without an entry barrier .
Also , this ARM-based appliance results in an easy to operate , ultra -robust, minimum failure domain and low-power offering that enables customers to operate their desired cluster in a cost efficient way without complications .
" We had a project in Hong Kong where a customer wanted a very high availability storage system for CCTV applications ," Joue continues . " The storage system needed to keep working , even if up to four storage servers failed at the same time . It will be costly by using a traditional storage solution and hard to achieve to keep the cluster running with 4 servers failing at the same time .” However , leveraging the ceph storage and the Ambedded microserver architecture , this HK customer easily achieved their goal even with a relatively small scale cluster .
hardware that ’ s tailor made to support its deployment , Ambedded , Canonical , and beyond , the Ceph commercial ecosystem provides support and services that allow companies of any scale , maturity , or specialisation to deploy and benefit from distributed storage - all built on Ceph .
“ When it comes to getting started with Ceph , it can be an issue knowing which servers to buy , which hard drives and how many ,” Weil acknowledges . “ That ' s where companies in the commercial ecosystem really add a lot of value , not to mention the open source community at large .”
208 January 2022