back to article Fujitsu's ETERNUS CD10000: Better Ceph than sorry?

So Fujitsu has announced the ETERNUS CD10000 – its latest storage product designed to meet the demands of the hyperscale and the explosion in data growth and it’s based on… Ceph. It seems that Ceph is quickly becoming the go-to scale-out and unified system for those companies who don’t already have an in-house file-system to …

  1. Nate Amsden

    why

    why would you want to risk storage by running workloads on a storage system? It's not like your going to benefit from ultra low latency on such a system it's distributed object storage. Even if you did benefit, spend the extra $ and get dedicated compute hardware, keep them separate.

    my VAR has latched onto the idea of Cleversafe back end + Avere front end(NAS + tiering/caching) which seems to be an interesting combination. I have warned him against Ceph, not mature enough for most customers out there. (Not sure how much better Cleversafe is but they do seem to be the market leader so that says something at least). I believe Ceph has NAS as well but that's another thing I wouldn't put much trust in at this stage of their game.

    I'm not in the market for such a system and don't imagine that changing in the next 2-3 years anyway.

  2. FReichart

    Ceph is very reliable for Block and Object Storage

    The ETERNUS CD10000 is desigend and quality assured for the usage as a hyper-scale storage system - it is not a generic IT platform. This is why Fujitsu is intentionally restrictive in allowing to run applications on a ETERNUS CD10000. The underlying operating system is of no significance as the system is sold as a storage appliance. Traditional RAID Storage Systems have also specialised operating systems.

    Nobody would want to compromise the service level of a storage system by adding additional workloads at random. The fact that software-defined storage platforms run on x86 servers may create a temptation to mix storage and business application workloads on one platform but it is strongly recommended not to do so. Fujitsu is also aware that the file cababilities of Ceph are still limited. Therfore the system is realesed for block and object store in it's first relase. File will be suppoerted at a later point in time.

    This is a big advantage of a packacked solution as only functions are released which enterprise users can rely on.

    Frank Reichart

    Sen. Product Marketing Director Storage, Fujitsu

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