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4 Benchmark Test Results
Many organizations are trying to understand how to configure hardware for optimized Ceph clusters that
meet their unique needs. Red Hat Ceph Storage is able to run on a myriad of diverse industry-standard
hardware configurations, however designing a successful Ceph cluster requires careful analysis of issues
related to application, capacity, and workload. The ability to address dramatically different kinds of I/O
workloads within a single Ceph cluster makes understanding these issues paramount to a successful
deployment. After extensive performance and server scalability evaluation and testing, Red Hat and Dell
have classified the benchmark results into the following five categories:
1. Compare server throughput in different configurations
2. Compare overall solution price/performance
3. Compare overall solution price/capacity
4. Compare server throughput in replication versus erasure-coded modes
5. Compare server throughput in JBOD and RAID0 modes
These five comparisons are shown in the following sections.