Ceph is the leading open-source storage management platform for private cloud and large-scale clustered systems. As flash-based storage has come into the mainstream many of the industry best-practices must be re-examined to properly realize the full value of flash while simultaneously being cost-effective.
Ceph has been rapidly evolving to support large-scale deployment of flash. This presentation will examine the history and current best-practices for deploying flash with Ceph. Future developments in the Ceph platform will also be described and their impact on flash deployments.