Accelerating Ceph Distributed Database Using ThunderX and CloudSpeed Ultra

Cavium and Western Digital set out to prove the value of a new cloud service provider (CSP) distributed storage platform that is price per performance competitive with current distributed storage platforms. Current storage platforms typically leverage high-priced Intel Xeon processors with legacy hard disk drives (HDDs). This paper describes the first performance assessment of a Ceph distributed block storage system using solely flash-based SSD coupled with modern 64-bit ARM processors. No rotating drives were used in the systems under test. (Know More)