Ceph

Storage clustering systems have been an interest of mine for many years. The idea that you can put a bunch of similarly shaped systems together and make them behave as a unit is fascinating. One could think of systems biological terms; the kernel being analogous to the nucleus in a cell, bringing individual cells together to serve a higher purpose of the organ or nerve ending. I’ve never really needed a high performance cluster, and when I studied the technologies in the area of HPC, I didn’t have data that needed processing. Though I did thirst for storage, and with it and, data redundancy. ...