Ceph community member Loic Dachary posted a fun entry this week about using the hardware you already have in the office, your desktops, to make a cluster. Turns out it’s a pretty easy setup, and it can handle if random machines disappear for reboots. Take a look. July 1st 2013, Heinlein set up a Ceph […]

At this year’s Cloud Expo Europe I had a nice chat with the guys from ComodIT who are making some interesting deployment and orchestration tools. They were kind enough to include their work in a blog post earlier this week and give me permission to replicate it here for your consumption. As always, if any […]

During my most recent schlep through Europe I met some really great people, and heard some awesome Ceph use cases. One particularly interesting case was the work the guys at Synnefo shared with me at FOSDEM that they have been doing with Ganeti and RADOS. They were nice enough to write up some of the […]

Through this article I’m delighted to introduce a new category on the Ceph blog called User Story. The aim of this category is to offer general feedback to centralized users . The structure of the article is as follows: Introduction: who am i and what I am doing Company introduction and business (not mandatory) Ceph use case: what […]