Ceph is a distributed storage system known for its scalability & flexibility. Ceph is also a complex system with lots of features, so it also comes with challenges. CERN relies heavily on ceph as building block for many IT, physics analysis & other services.

In this Birds of a Feather session, we will bring together engineers from CERN, IBM and the community in a discussion for the challenges faced with tuning, running and using the correct features for the evolving scientific & business use cases. Some discussion topics include multisite Ceph clusters, CephFS for diverse scientific/AI/ML workloads, the many RGW features for object safety, tiering strategies etc. We will look at some pain points and solutions available as well as being developed to address these.

We expect a colloborative discussion with attendees, and would like everyone to share their experiences, ask questions and discuss improving Ceph as a solution for scientific as well as enterprise storage needs.