OpenStack Summit October 2015 Tokyo

Ceph is a fully open source distributed object store, block device and file system. The Ceph community and itself has become enough matured. It is one of the most common storage solution in OpenStack deployment. Meanwhile, Server SAN storage come up these years and become more and more popular in the openstack deployment.

The most well-known Server SAN are Solidfire and ScaleIO. Both of these storage can be used as cinder backend to provide block storage, just as the same of ceph. However, in addition to providing block storage, what are the differences of them. Faced with these options, the user will be confused to choose a suitable storage.

In this session, we make a comparison between ceph and the above-mentioned commercial Server SAN from storage function, deployment, operation and maintenance, and performance. Hope these content can provide some help in your OpenStack storage selection.