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Dell PowerEdge R730xd Performance and Sizing Guide for Red Hat Ceph Storage - A Dell Red Hat Technical White Paper 11
Storage offers mature interfaces for enterprise block and object storage, making it well suited for active
archive, rich media, and cloud infrastructure workloads like OpenStack®. Delivered in a unified self-
healing and self-managing platform with no single point of failure, Red Hat Ceph Storage handles data
management so businesses can focus on improving application availability. Some of the properties
include:
 Scaling to petabytes
 No single point of failure in the cluster
 Lower capital expenses (CapEx) by running on commodity server hardware
 Lower operational expenses (OpEx) by self-managing and self-healing.
Table 3 below provides a matrix of different Ceph cluster design factors, optimized by workload category.
Please see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-ceph-storage/1.3/single/ceph-
configuration-guide/ for more information.
Object‐based
Storage
VeryHigh
Scalability
Accessedby
S3orSwift
APIs
Unstructured
Data
Server
Platform
Independent

Flat‐structured,locationindependent,abilitytouse
unstructureddata(i.e.PDF,video,audio,image,orWord
doc)thatisreplicatedandsupportsgeographicfailover.
 Nosinglepointoffailure.
 Supportsuser‐definedanddynamicmetadata,flexible,and
veryhighscalability(upto1000nodes).OSDnodesand
storagecanbescaledupindependently.
 CanbeaccessedbyusingS3orSwiftapplication
programminginterfaces(APIs),REST,andSOAP.
 Storesbytes,terabytes,petabytes:files,
videos,images,
tar,backup,ISOimagefiles,andmanymore.
 Wellsuitableforcloudcomputingwithflatfilestructure
(e.g.nohierarchyoffolders).
 Verysecureandreliable.
 Self‐healing,extendedmetadata,policy‐basedcapability&
management.
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Ceph Object-based Storage