This document discusses new features and upcoming improvements for Ceph. Some key points: - The Bobtail release improved OSD threading, recovery quality of service, block device cloning, and Keystone integration. - Upcoming releases will add incremental backups for block devices, on-disk encryption, REST APIs, and continued performance optimizations. - Ceph is an open source distributed storage system that provides object storage, block storage, and file storage in a single unified system. It is scalable, flexible, and low cost.

1. New Features for Ceph with Cinder
and Beyond

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Why Ceph?
• Low cost
• Flexible
• Scalable
• Open source

4. APP APP HOST/VM CLIENT
RADOSGW RBD CEPH FS
LIBRADOS
A bucket-based REST A reliable and fully- A POSIX-compliant
A library allowing gateway, compatible distributed block distributed file
apps to directly with S3 and Swift device, with a Linux system, with a Linux
access RADOS, kernel client and a kernel client and
with support for QEMU/KVM driver support for FUSE
C, C++, Java,
Python, Ruby,
and PHP
RADOS
A reliable, autonomous, distributed object store comprised of self-healing, self-managing,
intelligent storage nodes
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• Maintain cluster map
• Provide consensus for
distributed decision-making
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objects to clients
OSDs:
• One per disk (recommended)
• At least three in a cluster
• Serve stored objects to
clients
• Intelligently peer to perform
replication tasks
• Supports object classes
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13. CRUSH
• Pseudo-random placement
algorithm
• Ensures even distribution
• Repeatable, deterministic
• Rule-based configuration
• Replica count
• Infrastructure topology
• Weighting
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18. APP APP HOST/VM CLIENT
RADOSGW RBD CEPH FS
LIBRADOS
A bucket-based REST A reliable and fully- A POSIX-compliant
A library allowing gateway, compatible distributed block distributed file
apps to directly with S3 and Swift device, with a Linux system, with a Linux
access RADOS, kernel client and a kernel client and
with support for QEMU/KVM driver support for FUSE
C, C++, Java,
Python, Ruby,
and PHP
RADOS
A reliable, autonomous, distributed object store comprised of self-healing, self-managing,
intelligent storage nodes
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19. APP
LIBRADOS
native
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20. LIBRADOS
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• Provides direct access to
RADOS for applications
• C, C++, Python, PHP, Java
• No HTTP overhead

21. APP APP HOST/VM CLIENT
RADOSGW RBD CEPH FS
LIBRADOS
A bucket-based REST A reliable and fully- A POSIX-compliant
A library allowing gateway, compatible distributed block distributed file
apps to directly with S3 and Swift device, with a Linux system, with a Linux
access RADOS, kernel client and a kernel client and
with support for QEMU/KVM driver support for FUSE
C, C++, Java,
Python, Ruby,
and PHP
RADOS
A reliable, autonomous, distributed object store comprised of self-healing, self-managing,
intelligent storage nodes
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REST
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23. RADOS Gateway:
• REST-based interface to
RADOS
• Supports buckets,
accounting
• Compatible with S3 and
Swift applications
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24. APP APP HOST/VM CLIENT
RADOSGW RBD CEPH FS
LIBRADOS
A bucket-based REST A reliable and fully- A POSIX-compliant
A library allowing gateway, compatible distributed block distributed file
apps to directly with S3 and Swift device, with a Linux system, with a Linux
access RADOS, kernel client and a kernel client and
with support for QEMU/KVM driver support for FUSE
C, C++, Java,
Python, Ruby,
and PHP
RADOS
A reliable, autonomous, distributed object store comprised of self-healing, self-managing,
intelligent storage nodes
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VIRTUALIZATION CONTAINER
LIBRBD
LIBRADOS
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28. RADOS Block Device:
• Storage of virtual disks in RADOS
• Allows decoupling of VMs and
containers
• Live migration!
• Images are striped across the
cluster
• Thin-provisioning
• Snapshots and cloning

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VIRTUALIZATION CONTAINER
LIBRBD
LIBRADOS
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30. HOW DO YOU
SPIN UP
THOUSANDS OF VMs
INSTANTLY
AND
EFFICIENTLY?
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31. instant copy
144 0 0 0 0 = 144
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32. write
CLIENT
write
write
write
144 4 = 148
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33. read
read
CLIENT
read
144 4 = 148
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34. old-style VM image creation
local disk Nova Glance
(VM images) compute (templates)
read X
● ephemeral
● expensive to create
X
X'
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35. Why use block storage?
• Persistent
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More familiar to users
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Not tied to a single host
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Decouples compute and storage
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Enables Live migration
• Extra capabilities of storage system
•
Efficient snapshots
• Different types of storage available
• Cloning for fast restore or scaling

36. Cinder volume creation
Cinder Cinder volume Glance
API volume driver (templates)
create image from X
locate X
location of X
read X
X
flexibility in where VM
images are stored
X'
reference to X'
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37. Efficient volume creation
Cinder Cinder volume Glance
API volume driver (templates)
create image from X
locate X
location of X
clone X to X'
X
fast CoW clone
X'
X' complete
reference to X'
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What's new in Bobtail:
Improved OSD threading
• Filesystem and journal related-locks are now
more fine-grained
• Boosted single disk IOPS from 6k to 22k
• Restructured how map updates are handled,
letting each placement group process them
independently

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What's new in Bobtail:
Recovery QoS
• Message priority system reworked to prevent
starvation
• Recovery operations can be lower priority
than client I/O without starving
• Requests to access an object can increase
recovery priority for that object

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What's new in Bobtail:
Block Device Cloning
• Instantly create new volumes based on
templates (snapshots)
• Integrated with Cinder in Folsom
• Grizzly adds the ability to copy (not clone)
non-raw images to RBD

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What's new in Bobtail:
Keystone Integration
• RADOS gateway can talk to keystone to
authenticate swift api requests
• Let keystone manage your users
• Supported by the Ceph juju charm

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What's next: Cuttlefish
• Incremental backup for block devices
• On-disk encryption
• REST management API for RADOS gateway
• More performance improvements (especially
for small I/O)
• More! (http://www.inktank.com/about-
inktank/roadmap/)

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What's next: Dumpling
• Geo-replication for RADOS gateway
• REST management API for Ceph cluster
• ...
(virtual) Ceph Developer Summit May 6

44. Questions?
Josh Durgin
josh.durgin@inktank.com
jdurgin on freenode
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