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Performance-optimized Ceph Storage with Flexible and Tiered Storage
Performance-optimized Ceph Storage with Flexible and Tiered Storage
Under the wave of exponential global data growth, traditional storage has become overwhelmed and needs an evolution. To meet modern business demands, enterprise and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are looking for simple, optimized storage architectures.
Ceph is a popular software-defined storage that is able to provide a flexible solution that keeps up with capacity growth and performance.
QCT QxStor Ceph Storage solution delivers a unified storage that handles object, block and file workloads with enhanced performance. By working closely with Intel®, QCT adopts Intel® Xeon®™ processors and Intel® Optane™ Technology. And our team has been dedicated to discovering peak performance by tuning our servers, BIOS, OS, and Ceph.conf for data-intensive and performance-sensitive usage scenarios. Through these tests, we offer customers choices for different configurations with tiered storage media to meet throughput-optimized, input/output operations per second (IOPS)-intensive optimized and capacity-optimized workloads.
Benefits
Benefits
Excellent Scalability
Ceph-based solution and standard hardware are easy to scale quickly and inexpensively to petabyte (PBs) level.
Flexibility
The variety of the disk type selection offer the capability of archiving, cach tiering, and journaling on QCT storage solutions to match customer budgetary consideration as well as performance.
Optimization
Maximize the throughput and minimize the latency performance by thorough tuning from HW tuning to Ceph calibration
QxStor Ceph Storage
with Intel® Optane™ DC SSD
QxStor Ceph Storage
with Intel® Optane™ DC SSD
with Intel® Optane™ DC SSD
QCT QxStor Ceph solution adopts Intel® Optane™ DC SSD to accelerate storage cache in Ceph BlueStore that can increase performance in Ceph data processing. The Intel® Optane™ DC SSD helps eliminate storage bottlenecks and allows bigger, more affordable data sets. It can accelerate applications, reduce transaction costs for latency-sensitive workloads, and improve overall data center TCO.
Intel® Optane™ Technology
Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series
Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (Intel® CAS)
Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (Intel® CAS)
Collaborating with Intel, QCT validates the Open Cache Acceleration Software (Open CAS) on the Intel® Optane™ DC SSD. Note: Open CAS has been proven to increases Ceph Bluestore performance by intelligent caching.
Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (Intel® CAS)
Solution Architecture
Solution Architecture
HW Specification
HW Specification
* Minimum three-node configuration to provide redundancy and high availability.
*The configurations are subject to change.
| Type | Throughput-optimized SKU | IOPS-optimized SKU | Capacity-optimized SKU |
| System | QuantaGrid D52BQ-2U 24x SFF PtP (SKU – #3) | QuantaGrid D52BQ-2U 24x SFF PtP (SKU – #3) | QuantaGrid D52BQ-2U 24x SFF PtP (SKU – #3) |
| CPU | 2x Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Cascade Lake) | 2x Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Cascade Lake) | 2x Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Cascade Lake) |
| Memory | 6x DDR4 2666 32GB | 6x DDR4 2666 32GB | 6x DDR4 2666 32GB |
| Data | 14x 2.5” SAS HDD 1.2TB 2x 2.5” SATA SSD (for OS) | 6x Intel® SSD D5-P4320 7.68TB 2x 2.5” SATA SSD (for OS) | 14x 2.5” SAS HDD 1.2TB 2x 2.5” SATA SSD (for OS) |
| WAL DB | 2x Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X 750GB | 2x Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X 750GB | 2x Intel® SSD D3-S4610 960GB |
| SAS Controller | 1x SAS 3224 | 1x SAS 3224 | 1x SAS 3224 |
| NIC | 2x Dual port Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 25Gb | 2x Dual port Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 25Gb | 2x Dual port Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 25Gb |
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Ceph Delivers Storage Flexibility for Today’s SDDC (EN)
Reference Architecture
Performance and Sizing Guide: QxStor Ceph Storage- Open Source Edition (EN)
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