Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

Event Details

Please note: All times listed below are in Central Time Zone


Ceph OSD Hardware - A Pragmatic Guide

In this session you will learn how to pick the OSD node which just right for your deployment.

We will share with you all the lessons we’ve learned the hard way when operating our two Ceph clusters over the past several years.

We will cover some recommendations on picking the right hardware for Ceph, as well as some tips on optimising the deployed Ceph cluster for OpenStack.


What can I expect to learn?
  • What to consider when creating your very own Ceph cluster
  • Common problems with Ceph to be aware of
  • Benchmarking and profiling Ceph
  • Fat nodes vs thin nodes
  • What’s *the* best SSD for journal? Spoiler alert: one does not exist, here’s why
  • Sweet spot between storage density, price, and perfomance
Wednesday, October 26, 5:55pm-6:35pm (3:55pm - 4:35pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Bright Computing, BV
Piotr Wachowicz is a Cloud Integration Lead for Bright Computing. He's passionate about clouds, networking, and all things software defined. He's been working with OpenStack for several years, and his daily focus is looking after the deployment process, and management/monitoring of Bright OpenStack. FULL PROFILE