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November 21, 2024
IBM Releases IBM Storage Ceph 8.0, Multi-Protocol Software Defined Storage Platform
Suitable for Block, Object and File workloads.
Highly compatible with Amazon AWS S3 and surrounding services, in example: IAM, Serverside encryption, SSE, SSE-KMS and many more.
Storage for VMware, AI and Data Analytics, Object- and File storage as a service. Also applicable for traditional storage workloads, with NFS and SMB support.
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IBM Storage Ceph 8.0
Announcement date: November 19, 2024
General Availability date: November 21, 2024
IBM releases IBM Storage Ceph 8.0 GA, with new features and functionalities
The main significant highlights of this release are:
- RBD Block
NVMe/TCP block storage for VMware enhancements and new features. - CephFS
NFS v3, v4.1 and v4.2, enabling file access for non-native Ceph clients.
SMB v2 and SMB v3 Windows file access (Tech Preview)
Including MS Active Directory and ACLs support. - RADOS gateway
Extended AWS compatibility, new multitenancy feature with IAM and other functional features. - Dashboard UI
Extended UX functionalities, new cluster configuration options and security enhancements.
IBM Storage Ceph resources – find out more about IBM Storage Ceph
- IBM Community blogpost: about IBM Storage Ceph 8
- IBM Storage Ceph website: https://www.ibm.com/products/ceph
- IBM Storage Ceph documentation: http://docs.ceph.blue
- IBM Storage Ceph video demos: http://easy.ceph.blue
IBM Redpaper publications
- Concepts and architecture of IBM Storage Ceph:
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5721.html - Step-by-step implementation of some of the common scenarios with IBM Storage Ceph:
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5715.html
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