Ceph solution design and delivery
Fixed-price Ceph implementation, with consulting packages tailored to your needs. Right size your Ceph solution for performance, capacity and budget with help from our team of experts.
Ceph implementation challenges
Designing an optimised storage solution for any use case requires expert level knowledge, and many years of experience.
Common questions that arise during design and build:
- Which deployment tooling should I use?
- Which version of Ceph should I install?
- What CPUs, Memory, Disks, NICs should I buy?
- How do I configure my network?
- Which workloads are suitable for Ceph?
- Can I use Ceph for traditional workloads too?
- How can I secure my cluster?
- How can I prepare for Disaster Recovery?
Canonical's Ceph consultants can help guide you through these and many other questions related to deploying a cost-effective and fit for purpose Ceph storage system for a fixed price.
What consulting services are available?
Canonical offers two Ceph cluster consulting packages, Ceph Cluster Build (CCB), and Ceph Cluster Build Plus (CCB Plus). CCB is a basic package to get your Ceph cluster up and running in a simplified configuration, and CCB Plus offers more consulting time to evaluate your needs and customise the deployment architecture as required.
Fixed-Prices
Both packages are provided as fixed price services, therefore all project costs are transparent and predictable.
Workshops
Both packages include a workshop for team introductions, requirements gathering and architecture discussion and design. The workshop for CCB is provided remotely, and CCB Plus is provided on-site.
Workload assessment
During the workshop, our consultant will assess your existing infrastructure (be it on-prem, hybrid, or public cloud based), to ensure that the architecture design meets the needs of your applications.
Cluster design
Working jointly with your team, we design the Ceph cluster to meet your requirements. Providing guidance around hardware and configuration options.
Cluster delivery
Once your hardware is stood up, we test it end-to-end, ensuring all components are functional, and the networking is correctly configured. Then we build the cluster, validate it, and finally benchmark it's performance before your data is onboarded.
Workloads migration
Optionally, we can assist with data migrations from other storage systems. We partner with market-leading companies that can assist with minimally disruptive migrations.
Repeatable artifacts
On conclusion of the engagement we provide a detailed deployment guide that enables repeatable re-deployments of your cluster, and perform a formal handover process to your team, or to ourManaged Service team.
Day-2 automation
Charmed Ceph provides automation around common tasks, such as cluster scaling, integration and Ceph upgrades.
Optional training
If required we can deliver Cephtraining courses to your team to familiarise them with Charmed Ceph.
Getting started with Ceph on Ubuntu
Ceph Cluster Build
Design and deployment of an Object only Ceph cluster based on Canonical’s reference architecture.
What's included:
- RADOS Gateway (RGW) Object storage interface (S3 compatible)
- Hardware guidance and sizing
- Hardware and Network Reference Architecture
- Containerised control plane
- Observability stack
- High availability
Ceph Cluster Build Plus
Design and deployment of a multi-protocol Ceph cluster, based on a custom architecture tuned to your needs.
What's included:
Everything in Ceph Cluster Build, plus:
- RBD Block interface
- CephFS file storage interfance
- Custom scale-out architecture
- Capacity planning
- Storage-oriented networking
- Transparent caching
- Multiple storage pools
- Data encryption at rest, with integrated Key Management
- Security hardening and compliance
Companies using Ceph
There are multiple users of Ceph across a broad range of industries, from academia to telecommunications and cloud service providers. Ceph is particularly favored for its flexibility, scalability, and robustness.
Notable Ceph Users
