This talk is focused on how our Cinder environment has evolved from day 0 thru today. This includes our initial pains with finding a good storage subsystem, as well as some of our experiences with tuning our CEPH environment. Our testing and results were performed by a team of people who previously worked in traditional IT environments providing systems and storage for bare metal and vendor licensed virtual environments.
we will talk about:
Cinder
- Evaluating storage
- Basic design roadblocks
- Traditional vs “grid” type storage
- Live migration??
Ceph
- Our experiences with Ceph
- Plan properly from the start
- What is Ceph tuned for?
- Pain points
This is an open discussion to share some of the information we have gathered in hopes of helping people avoid some of the same issues we have encountered.