Ceph on Windows – Performance

Ceph, Hyper-V, Windows

Make sure to check out the previous blog post introducing Ceph on Windows, in case you’ve missed it. We are now going to look at how the performance looks like. Before this Ceph Windows porting, the only way to access Ceph storage from Windows was by using the Ceph iSCSI gateway, which can easily become…

Natively using Ceph on Windows

Ceph, Hyper-V, Windows

The wait is over, Ceph 16 (Pacific) provides Windows native support as a result of the Cloudbase Solutions and Suse partnership. Ceph is probably the most commonly used software defined storage solution out there. For example, according to surveys, more than 70% of the OpenStack deployments are powered by Ceph. That’s no wonder, considering that…