Event Details

Recent significant Ceph improvements, coupled with ultra-fast NVMe technology, will broaden the classes of workloads that are performant in the Ceph ecosystem. Few dispute the compelling speed and low latency of NVMe SSDs, but optimally harnessing that performance for I/O-intensive applications in shared VM storage environments is often non-trivial. Micron®, a leader in flash storage technology, discusses the work designing, deploying, tuning and testing the latest all-flash accelerated Ceph reference platform leveraging Micron 9200MAX NVMe SSDs.

In the session, we will

1. Explain our Ceph tuning and performance testing methodology across multiple IO profiles
2. Provide hardware configuration guidance for achieving the right balance of CPU, DRAM and SSD storage
3. Discuss the partner collaborations with Red Hat® on characterizing the effects on the tuning BlueStore Ceph Storage Backend
4. Share best practices learned for tuning optimal BlueStore block storage performance
5. Compare performance results of FileStore vs. BlueStore optimizations with all-NVMe Ceph Luminous clusters