Ceph, Xen, and CloudStack: Semper Melior - Patrick McGarry

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Channel: The Linux Foundation · 2013 · Science & Technology

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RBD, the RADOS Block Device in Ceph, gives you virtually unlimited scalability (without downtime), high performance, intelligent balancing and self-healing capabilities that traditional SANs can't provide. Ceph achieves this higher throughput through a unique system of placing objects across multiple nodes, and adaptive load balancing that replicates frequently accessed objects over more nodes. This talk will give a brief overview of the Ceph architecture, current integration with Apache CloudStack, and recent advancements with Xen and blktap2.

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