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, <ja...@peacon.co.uk> 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<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<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@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/**listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.**com<http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com> >
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