BlueStore Unleashed
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.2 brings a new round of enhancements
We are pleased to announce today’s immediate availability of Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.2, our fifteenth RHCS release. There are several highlights with this version, the most notable of which is the introduction of full support for BlueStore. As you definitely already know, BlueStore delivers very significant performance improvements to all Ceph users.
BlueStore
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.2 introduces GA support for the next-generation BlueStore backend. BlueStore delivers a 2X performance improvement for clusters that are HDD-backed, as it removes the so-called double-write penalty that IO-limited storage devices (like hard disk drives) are most affected by. Additionally, BlueStore provides significant performance enhancements in all-SSD configurations, as detailed in our recent whitepaper with Micron. The key highlights of an...