Best practices for monitoring and maintaining a healthy Ceph cluster
Running Ceph in production means embracing a powerful, flexible storage system, but also one that demands attention. A healthy Ceph cluster doesn’t just happen by chance. It’s the result of consistent monitoring, proactive maintenance and knowing where to focus your time. In this blog, we’ll walk through proven best practices we’ve seen work across environments […]
Ceph in the age of AI: preparing your storage for machine learning workloads
As organizations start building and running more machine learning models in production, they’re often surprised by how different these workloads behave compared to traditional applications. It’s not just about compute power, data storage plays a far more critical role than many teams initially expect. That’s where Ceph comes in. The data challenge in machine learning […]
Ceph Training: who it’s for, what you’ll learn, and why it’s worth it
If you work in infrastructure, storage, or open source, you’ve probably heard of Ceph. You might even be running it already. But understanding how to get the most out of Ceph and keep it healthy, scalable, and reliable is where many teams might hit a wall. That’s exactly why we built our Ceph training. Not a conference […]
Introduction to Ceph Squid
Ceph’s v19.2.0 Squid marks the 19th stable release, designed to continue Ceph’s leadership in scalable, distributed storage. Squid brings a blend of performance tweaks, new management tools, and under-the-hood fixes aimed at improving the overall Ceph experience for storage administrators and developers alike. This release builds on Ceph’s last release, Reef, and introduces optimizations for BlueStore, Ceph’s underlying storage […]
42on at KubeCon: Highlights from KubeCon 2024 in Paris
42on attended KubeCon in Paris last week and let me tell you: Wow… these were a couple of unforgettable days. Now that we’re back, it feels like the perfect time to reflect on some of the highlights from our perspective. So, let’s get to it. Preparation day KubeCon On Tuesday, we arrived in Paris and […]
42on at KubeCon: A booth, a sponsorship and a surprise
We are thrilled to announce that 42on will be a proud sponsor and exhibitor at KubeCon 2024, set to take place in the heart of innovation and culture, Paris. This event marks a significant milestone in the cloud-native community, bringing together leading contributors in Kubernetes, cloud-native, and open source development to share insights, foster innovation, […]
The Unseen Carbon Footprint: Data Storage and Sustainable Solutions
At the Cephalocon 2023 in Amsterdam, a talk on the environmental impact of data storage was presented by Wout van Heeswijk, the CTO of 42on, and Wido den Hollander, the founder of 42on. You can view the talk through the following link: https://youtu.be/eAMWFJzLIc8 Drawing on their expertise, Wout and Wido shed light on the topics that […]
Best practices for CephFS
File storage is a data storage format in which data is stored and managed as files within folders. Why would you choose to use file storage? Well, the advantages of file storage include the following: 1. User-friendly interface: A simple file management and sharing system which are easy to understand for human users which makes […]
How we use Ceph-Collect to work with you
When we work on Ceph storage infrastructures, we always ask to run a diagnostic tool first. For running these diagnostics, we have developed a tool, which is called Ceph-Collect. The tool is used to gather information from a Ceph cluster. After it runs, it shows an in dept report about the storage architecture together with […]
Setting noout flag per Ceph OSD
Prior to Ceph Luminous you could only set the noout flag cluster-wide which means that none of your OSDs will be marked as out. On large(r) cluster this isn’t always what you want as you might be performing maintenance on a part of the cluster, but you sill want other OSDs which go down to […]