performance

Ceph Raw Disk Performance Testing

Tooling and methodology for testing the performance of disk devices with ceph osd.
Ceph raw disk performance testing is something you should not overlook when architecting a ceph cluster. When choosing media for use as a journal or OSD in a Ceph cluster, determining the raw IO characteristics of the disk when used in the same way ceph will use the disk is of tantamount importance before tens, hundreds or thousands of disks are purchased. The point of this article is to briefly discuss how ceph handles IO.