Chapter 3. Selecting OSD Hardware

Based on extensive testing by Red Hat and Intel with a variety of hardware providers, the following document provides general performance, capacity, and sizing guidance for servers based on Intel® Xeon® processors, optionally equipped with Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center (Intel® SSD DC) Series.

Red Hat Ceph Storage on servers with Intel® processors and SSDs.

To address the need for performance, capacity, and sizing guidance, Red Hat and Supermicro have performed extensive testing to characterize optimized configurations for deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage on a range of Supermicro storage servers. For details, see the following document:

Red Hat Ceph Storage clusters on Supermicro storage servers

Use of standard hardware components helps ensure low costs, while QCT’s innovative development model enables organizations to iterate more rapidly on a family of server designs optimized for different types of Ceph workloads. Red Hat Ceph Storage on QCT servers lets organizations scale out to thousands of nodes, with the ability to scale storage performance and capacity independently, depending on the needs of the application and the chosen storage server platform.

To address the need for performance, capacity, and sizing guidance, Red Hat and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) have performed extensive testing to characterize optimized configurations for deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage on a range of QCT servers.

For details, see the following document:

Red Hat Ceph Storage on QCT Servers

This document provides an overview of the use of a Cisco UCS C3160 server with Ceph in a scaling multinode setup with petabytes (PB) of storage. It demonstrates the suitability of the Cisco UCS C3160 in object and block storage environments, and the server’s dense storage capabilities, performance, and scalability as you add more nodes.

Cisco UCS C3160 high Density Rack Server with Red Hat Ceph Storage

To address the needs of Ceph users to effectively deploy All-Flash Ceph clusters optimized for performance, Samsung Semiconductor Inc. and Red Hat have performed extensive testing to characterize optimized configurations for deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage on Samsung NVMe SSDs deployed in a Samsung NVMe Reference Architecture. For details, see:

Red Hat Ceph Storage on Samsung NVMe SSDs