1. STORAGE WARS
OSDC 2019

2. ACHIM
LEDERMÜLLER
WHOAMI
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
@READONLY444
HOSTING
INFRASTRUCTURE

3. MANAGED SERVICES

4. STORAGE
HOSTING

5. INTRODUCTION
TIM AL
🤑

6. WINTER 2012/2013
Are my VMs always
accessible?
Yes for sure 🧐
Hi
AL
TIM
🤔

7. WINTER 2012/2013
Is my data save if the the
disk array burns down?
I don’t think so, Tim.
😡
…but if we double the
price for your servers we can
buy some new licences 🤑 AL
TIM
🤔

8. 2013
Can’t you provide some
open source solution?
😊
Maybe we should try
GlusterFS!
TIM
🤔
AL

9. 2013
Can’t you provide some
open source solution?
😊
Maybe we should try
GlusterFS!
TIM
🤔
AL
10x 2 TB 10x 2 TB
10x 2 TB 10x 2 TB
10x 2 TB 10x 2 TB

10. 2013
🤯🤕🤢🤮
Can’t you provide some
open source solution?
😊
Maybe we should try
GlusterFS!
TIM
🤔
AL
10x 2 TB 10x 2 TB
10x 2 TB 10x 2 TB
10x 2 TB 10x 2 TB

11. DO TESTS
AT LEAST
WITH 80%
OF YOUR
MAXIMUM
CAPACITY

12. WINTER 2013/2014
🤬💩
Let’s try Ceph!
😕
Why? 😐
AL
TIM
😡

13. WINTER 2013/2014
🤬💩
Let’s try Ceph!
🐙🦑😍
😕
Why? 😐
AL
TIM
😡

14. Client
12MB
4 MB Slices
Object Storage Daemons

15. Client
12MB
4 MB Slices
Object Storage Daemons

16. Client
12MB
4 MB Slices
Object Storage Daemons

17. Client
12MB
4 MB Slices
Object Storage Daemons

18. Client
12MB
4 MB Slices
Object Storage Daemons

20. SUMMER 2014
Is my data save if your
dc burns down?
Ceph is replicated to an
other DC by default. 😏
AL
TIM
🤔

22. CRUSH

23. SUMMER 2014
… and if I delete
accidentally all my
volumes?
🥺😱 😒
Is my data safe if your
dc burns down?
Ceph is replicated to an
other DC by default. 😏
AL
TIM
🤔

24. FALL 2014
Why is my service slow?
No problem!
Every night for two minuts!
AL
TIM
🤔
😭😱

25. FALL 2014
Why is my service slow?
No problem!
Every night for two minuts!
I can fix this 😙
AL
TIM
🤔
😭😱
😎

26. Snapshots

27. Scrubbing

28. Backfilling

29. LIMIT
INTENSIVE
JOBS

30. LIMIT
INTENSIVE
JOBS
&
CLIENTS

31. TIM
WINTER 2014
TIM
Why is my mysql-slave
so far behind?
Due to redundancy of your data the latency of all components sums up. At least we have the time
going through the network to the primary OSD and the latency to slowest replica and the latency of the
Ceph code itself (sum of primary and slowest replica) and the latency of the spinning disks inclusive. At
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😖 fix it
AL
😟

32. LATENCY
Client
OSD
OSD OSD

33. LESS DENSITY
2TB 2TB2TB 2TB2TB 2TB 2TB 2TB 2TB 2TB
1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB
1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB

34. ALL FLASH
SSD
SSD SSD
SSD SSD
SSD SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD SSD
SSD SSD
SSD SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD SSD
SSD SSD
SSD SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD

35. WHAT
YOU
BUY
IS
WHAT
YOU
GET

36. ONCE A WHILE
TIM
We need additional 50 TB
When?
We already wrote
20 TB since last week.
😭
AL
😋

37. SET
SUITABLE
THRESHOLDS

38. OSDC 2018
Be honest, what have you
messed up already?
Nothing
🤥
🤨
🤫
Ceph covers our back!
AL
TIM
😁

39. USE
THE
DEFAULTS
&
CARE

40. THANKS!
AL

41. @netways
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