A Luminous Release
The third one is a charm.
RHCS 3 is our annual major release of Red Hat Ceph Storage and it brings great new features to customers in the areas of containers, usability and raw technology horsepower. It includes support for CephFS, giving us a complete all-in-one storage solution in Ceph spanning block, object and file alike. It introduces iSCSI support to provide storage to platforms like VMWare ESX and Windows Server that currently lack native Ceph drivers. And we are also introducing support for client-side caching with dm-cache.
On the usability front we are introducing new automation to manage the cluster with less user intervention (dynamic bucket sharding), a troubleshooting tool to analyze and flag invalid cluster configurations (Ceph Medic), and a new and rather impressive monitoring dashboard (Ceph Metrics) that brings unparalleled insight into the state of the cluster.
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