The Study of Mixed Storage Scheme of Private Cloud Platform Based on Ceph

Ceph is a unique unified system that supports object storage, block storage, and file storage with the characteristic of high available, manageable, and free. To build a distributed storage system based on Ceph in a private cloud environment with a high level of data privacy, it can support object storage, block storage, and file storage simultaneously. Ceph FS and MDS in the current community version are friendlier to ecological environment of OpenStack. However, community versions of Ceph have many problems with their actual use. This article discusses a hybrid storage solution that can be used in a real environment. Based on Ceph's original framework, it adds some extensions to make the native Ceph more suitable for the enterprise's production environment. There is a very attractive solution by using Ceph as a back-end storage for a private cloud platform whether consider about cost and business considerations.