Ceph on Viridis Benefits
- AT LEAST 2X MORE PERFORMANCE-PER-DOLLAR
Tightly integrated SOC that consists of CPU, network, and disk controllers. No more, no less. - RECLAIM UNUSED SPACE IN DATACENTRE
Reduce energy by 10-15% of every single chassis, allowing datacentre operators to squeeze another 1-2 systems into the same rack, thereby increasing the total storage density in the rack - BEST-IN-CLASS STORAGE DENSITY
Tightly integrated ARM chips allow you to fit an entire server into the same size as a 3.5” disk, leaving you more room for hard drives in the chassis (and ultimately in the rack) - BETTER CPU TO DISK RATIO ARCHITECTURES (E.g. 4 CORES WITH 4 DISKS)
For some applications, having a more balanced core-to-disk ratio is critical. With x86-based systems, this is expensive and cost-prohibitive. With Calxeda, it’s achievable and quite reasonable — again, all integrated into one chip. - SMALLER FAILURE DOMAINS FOR DISTRIBUTED STORAGE APPLICATIONS
Ceph with Calxeda’s architecture enables smaller failure domains and allows architecture results in a lower failure rate, faster recovery time, and easier operation and is self-healing and self-managing.
The combination of Ceph and Viridis creates a storage system that fully leverages Ceph’s software defined storage architecture and Viridis’ low-power, high density server architecture to increase scalability, manageability, reliability and significantly lower overall acquisition and operational costs. This transformative storage platform is the ideal system for tackling the challenges of use case proliferation (legacy, big data, cloud, etc.), overall data growth explosion, and on-going cost pressures being felt within enterprises and service providers today.
As the Ceph architecture is designed to distribute a storage cluster over multiple servers, Boston’s ARM-based solutions enable Ceph clusters to possess a greater number of servers, thus creating lower failure rates and more efficient healing – all within the same amount of space and at a lower power consumption level. This results the delivering of better performance-per-dollar at reduced power consumption and better rack density. With specific applications, the overall combined performance of one 2U Viridis appliance can outperform a whole rack of standard x86 servers, yet at the same time consume 1/10th the power and occupy 1/10th the space making it an excellent investment for datacentres and enterprises alike.
Boston announces partnership with Calxeda and Inktank to deliver transformative Ceph-based storage on the ARM-based Viridis Platform (17th October, 2013)