TRADITIONAL
STORAGE SYSTEMS

• Composed of proprietary pieces of hardware like cache memory and disks (at least at the firmware piece).
• Based on a couple of controllers for high availability. They needs to be over-sized to avoid performance impact.
• Connected thru complex protocols like Fiber Channel (FCP), NFS, CIFS or iSCSI
• Based on RAID-0 to RAID-6 depending on latency, type of disks or savings.
• Complex to scale out, monitor and manage, maintain, replace, migrate, troubleshoot or fix getting for spare parts quickly.
• Expensive

SOFTWARE
DEFINED STORAGE

• Composed by commodity pieces of hardware that can be acquired thru any compute vendor.
• Distributed in performance, more resilient. Any failure has imperceptible effect on performance.
• Connected thru protocols that lever orchestration tools.
• Simple to scale out, monitor and manage, maintain, replace, migrate, troubleshoot or fix getting for spare parts quickly.
• 10x less expensive.

CEPH

The most used open-source SDS today, brings block, file and object storage types. Fully Integrates OpenStack Cinder for Orchestration. We bring services like:

• Document/Design Ceph configuration based on use case
• High and Low level design
• Architecture recommendation
• Plan and Implementation
• Ramp up for the first 30 days