Micron Technology today announced at the OpenStack Summit an all-flash Ceph storage reference architecture that leverages the Red Hat Ceph Storage, the efficiency of the Supermicro 1U Ultra SuperServer and the speed of Micron 9100 MAX NVMe flash PCIe solid state drives.

This Micron Accelerated Ceph Solution has been designed to fulfil the needs of enterprise storage users who must efficiently deploy software-defined storage (SDS) optimized for I/O intensive workloads. It is a 4-server node storage cluster that hits 1.1M IOPs and reaches 21.8 GB/s throughput, which can support 7,000+ ultra-high-definition data streams simultaneously. The NVMe reference design carries the Micron SOLID Ready seal.

Ceph is open source software designed to provide highly scalable object-, block- and file-based storage under a unified system. Red Hat Ceph Storage is based on the open source community version of Ceph Storage (version 10.2.5), the Jewel release stream.

With Red Hat Ceph Storage, Micron can offer a unified block and object storage platform capable of scaling to meet the demands of IOPs-intensive as well as throughput-intensive workloads. The all-NVMe 4-node Ceph building block can be used to scale either the Ceph cluster performance or the Ceph cluster capacity (or both), and is designed for scale-out, software-defined data centers that integrate compute and storage.