Ceph is a software-defined storage solution that is designed to run on commodity hardware. This ability of Ceph makes it a flexible and economic solution that is tailored for your needs. Since all the intelligence of Ceph resides in its software, it requires a good set of hardware to make it an overall package that is a great storage solution.
The Ceph hardware selection requires meticulous planning based on your storage needs and the use case that you have. Organizations need optimized hardware configurations that allow them to start small and scale to several petabytes. The following diagram represents a few factors that are used to determine an optimal configuration for your Ceph cluster:
Different organizations have different storage workloads that generally require some middle-ground shared by performance, capacity, and TCO. Ceph is a unified storage, that is, it can provision File, Block, and Object storage from the same cluster. Ceph is...