Well, as I understand it Seagate has their own home-rolled thing. I believe there was some discussion at one point about using Ceph together with their offering, but if I remember correctly Seagate wanted to remove RADOS and just use Ceph clients, which didn't make a lot of sense to us. Best Regards, Patrick McGarry Director, Community || Inktank http://ceph.com || http://inktank.com @scuttlemonkey || @ceph || @inktank On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Hunter Nield <hunter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been wondering about the same thing. > > Has anyone had a chance to look at the Simulator? > https://github.com/Seagate/Kinetic-Preview > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:56 PM, <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Not brand-new, but I've not seen it mentioned on here so far. Seagate >> Kinetic essentially enables HDDs to present themselves directly over >> Ethernet as Swift object storage: >> >> >> http://www.seagate.com/solutions/cloud/data-center-cloud/platforms/?cmpid=friendly-_-pr-kinetic-us >> >> If the CPUs on these drives have enough oomph for Swift, what about Ceph >> OSDs? >> >> Add in some DHCP option based auto-configure mechanism and a small SLC SSD >> in each drive (like hybrid drives; Kinetic graphics hint at this already: >> http://www.seagate.com/www-content/ti-dm/_shared/images/figure-3-drive-application-management-storage-software-api-732x642.png) >> so we could also eliminate the storage server layer, get smaller failure >> domains, and solve the journalling problem - and ultimately reduce cost and >> complexity. Basically build a rack with hundreds of hot-plug Ethernet HDD >> ports... >> >> Forgive me, I'm just thinking out-loud... >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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