At the request of a customer, we were asked to adapt the performance and capacity of their existing Ceph cluster to the growth in ongoing production.
As a result, without maintenance windows and without service interruption, we have increased the Ceph cluster by 3700% during operation.
A customer approached us to help them build their new IaaS platform.
We helped him to evaluate the current situation and worked out a concept together with the customer from the selection of the location, the necessary hardware to the operation and implemented it together within a month.
On behalf of the customer, we provided the optimal Kubernetes platform for ONAP as a managed service.
ONAP is a comprehensive platform for orchestration, management, and automation of network and edge computing services for network operators,
cloud providers, and enterprises. Real-time, policy-driven orchestration and automation of physical and virtual network functions enables rapid automation of new services and complete lifecycle management critical for 5G and next-generation networks.
When moving a customer’s onpremise data centre to the public cloud, we were commissioned to plan the Ceph clusters for the Microsoft Azure environment for use with Microsoft Azure AKS. After an intensive testing and optimisation phase, we put the Ceph clusters into production there and took over the migration to the Microsoft Azure AKS offering.
Since 2021, we have supported one of our customers in the architecture and operation of more than 150 Kubernetes clusters with Ceph worldwide in all hyperscalers, such as GCP, AWS, Microsoft Azure and AliCloud.
*TISAX* (Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange) is a standard for information security defined by the automotive industry. A large number of automotive manufacturers and suppliers in the German automotive industry have required many business partners to have existing TISAX certification since 2017.
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISAX](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISAX)
On behalf of the customer, we support the customer in replacing its existing storage solution and introducing and commissioning Ceph as a future-proof and TISAX-compliant storage solution for its internal processes and data volumes.
The customer decided to connect its existing environment with NFS and Kerberos authentication and for its private cloud to connect via RBD.
Hello Ceph community! It's that time again for another blog post! Recently, a user on the ceph subreddit asked whether Ceph could deliver 10K IOPs in a combined random read/write FIO workload from one client. The setup consists of 6 nodes with 2 4GB FireCuda NVMe drives each. They wanted to know if anyone would mind benchmarking a similar setup and report the results. Here at Clyso we are actively working on improving the Ceph code to achieve higher performance. We have our own tests and configurations for evaluating our changes to the code, but it just so happens that one of the places we do our work (the upstream ceph community performance lab!) appears to be a good match for testing this user's request. We decided to sit down for a couple of hours and give it a try. u/DividedbyPi, one of our friends over at 45drives.com, wrote that they are also going to give it a shot and report the results on their youtube channel in the coming weeks. We figure this could be a fun way to get results from multiple vendors. Let's see what happens!
Cephalocon 2023 in Amsterdam saw the entire Ceph community out in force. And Clyso had a big presence with six talks and as host of the whole event!
The Ceph Community hosted its first post-pandemic event at the Bloomberg offices in New York City. Ceph Day NYC was a great success!
Clyso's Mark Nelson has written the first part in a series looking at performance testing of the upcoming Ceph Reef release vs the previous Quincy release. See the blog post here!
Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in Ceph support or performance consulting!