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Ceph Performance: The Basics of Tentacle Racing - Lee Sanders, IBM UK
Performance benchmarking of a storage system requires a disciplined and deterministic approach to ensure that the results are consistent, repeatable and comparable. There are many ways to evaluate the performance of your Ceph cluster correctly and incorrectly. This talk discusses the basics and best practices for evaluating the performance of Ceph clusters and the pitfalls you can easily fall into. We discuss the various kinds of performance data to collect and how to measure the performance that users, engineers and clients are interested in.
Ceph Performance: The Basics of Tentacle Racing - Lee Sanders, IBM UK
Performance benchmarking of a storage system requires a disciplined and deterministic approach to ensure that the results are consistent, repeatable and comparable. There are many ways to evaluate the performance of your Ceph cluster correctly and incorrectly. This talk discusses the basics and best practices for evaluating the performance of Ceph clusters and the pitfalls you can easily fall into. We discuss the various kinds of performance data to collect and how to measure the performance that users, engineers and clients are interested in.
