Storage

Flashcache on Proxmox

8 August 2014

Flashcache is a kernel module released by Facebook engineer back in April 2010 to speed up database I/O on a standard rotational drive with the speed of SSD. Since it works by caching filesystem blocks, so it can speed anything on the slow rotational disk. We’ve already use RAID10 with SAS disk on all of our […]

Proxmox building ceph and ceph module

8 August 2014

Introduction Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability – See more at: http://ceph.com Ceph’s RADOS Block Device to be used for VM disks. The Ceph storage services are usually hosted on external, dedicated storage nodes. Such storage clusters can sum up to several hundreds of nodes, […]

Replicating block device with DRBD on Centos 6

30 November 2013

Replicating block device with DRBD on Centos 6 How to configure DRBD on CentOS 6 DRBD® refers to block devices designed as a building block to form high availability(HA) clusters – Distributed Replicated Block Device This is done by mirroring a whole block device via an assigned network. Distributed Replicated Block Device can be understood as network based raid-1.   Distributed Replicated Block […]