How great would it be to have a simple way to manage and maintain your storage infrastructure? Good news, our engineers have been working on making that happen and we’re happy to say Houston UI is now a go! Houston provides a management layer you can use to interface with 45Drives products. It gives you a single viewpoint of your…
* Shortly after we released this blog Red Hat made the decision to kill off CentOS 8. Check out this video where we explain more about this topic. If you follow 45Drives, you’ve probably heard us mention Ceph - the premier open-source clustering software. Ceph links multiple storage servers together over a network to act as one large single unit.…
The storage landscape If you are looking to store a lot of data, basically there are two options. The Cloud is out. As anyone who has seriously considered it can tell you, the Cloud costs way too much once you have a large enough amount of data. The remaining two options involve purchasing a physical device to store your data, either…
We here at 45Drives are big fans of Ceph (as you may know). We even offer public and private Ceph webinars. Ceph is the premier open-source clustering software. It works by linking multiple servers together into a single unit that can provide object, file, and block storage. Storage clustering enables important features that you may want access to but are architecturally impossible…
When most people use S3 (Simple Storage Service), the first thing they think about is Amazon Cloud Storage. However, the S3 protocol is actually used in many places outside of AWS. S3 is used for interfacing with object storage over a network, by using buckets, keys, and operations. One example is how Ceph implements it via its RADOS Gateways (RGW).…
Mitch is back with another Tuesday Tech Tip! Watch this week's video to learn the five best practices you should consider for the administration of your ZFS storage pools. The best part is he tells you all of them in under 5 minutes! Check it out below.? Each Tuesday, we release a tech tip video that will give users information on…
It's that day of the week again, Tech Tip Tuesday! In this week's tech tip, Mitch gives us an overview of the Network File System (NFS) protocol. He explains the background of NFS, why it's useful and gives us a mini-tutorial on how to set up an NFS server, client and mounting a share. Check it out below! As always…
Each Tuesday, we will be releasing a tech tip video that will give users information on various topics relating to our Storinator storage servers. This week, Mitch gives you a comparison of Linux vs ZFS RAID, giving you scenarios where you would use one over the other, and a tutorial on how to set up each one. Be sure to…
This week, Mitch gives you an overview of what Ceph is at its core, including a look at the components that are needed to make up a Ceph storage cluster. Be sure to check out our GitHub: https://github.com/45drives Be sure to check out our technical articles on our Knowledgebase: http://knowledgebase.45drives.com/
Each Tuesday, we will be releasing a tech tip video that will give users information on various topics relating to our Storinator storage servers. This week, we tackle a commonly asked question here at 45Drives. Brett talks about how ZFS does its read and write caching. Be sure to check out our GitHub: https://github.com/45drives Be sure to watch next Tuesday when…