Most Interesting Ceph Facts Based on 2019 User Survey

TL; DR: Most Interesting Ceph Facts In Tables And Graphs Derived From 2019 Ceph User Survey Results.







What type of organization do you have?



Answered question: 405

Skipped question: 0

Answer Answered %
a commercial 257 63.46
Government 19 4.69
Military 0 0
Educational 57 14.07
Non-profit sixteen 3.95
Other 56 13.82






Why are you using Ceph?



Answered question: 405

Skipped question: 0

Answer Answered %
Open source 367 90.62
Scalability 326 80.49
The cost 247 60.99
Functional 223 55.06
fault tolerance 309 76.30
Reliability \ survivability \ data integrity 279 68.89
Performance 125 30.86
Possibility of implementation with related technologies 120 29.63
Other thirteen 3.21






How long have you been using Ceph?



Answered question: 405

Skipped question: 0

Answer Answered %
Less than a year 72 17.78
1-2 years 65 16.05
2-5 years 203 50.12
More than 5 years 58 14.32
Do not use 7 1.73






In which countries do you have Ceph deployed?



Answered question: 405

Skipped question: 0

Answer Answered %
Other 249 61.48
USA 87 21.48
Germany 73 18.02
China thirty 7.41
Great Britain 29 7.16
Russia 26 6.42
France 20 4.94






How do you install Ceph?



Answered question: 344

Omitted question: 61

Answer Answered %
Developer packages 170 49.42
Packages from distributions 131 38.08
Packages from manufacturers 93 27.03
We collect our packages 26 7.56
Putting together our version 12 3.49






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How do you deploy?



Answered question: 312

Omitted question: 93

Answer Answered %
Ansible 134 42.95
ceph-deploy 133 42.63
Other (here Proxmox + CLI) 75 04.24






Operating system used



Answered question: 344

Omitted question: 61

Answer Answered %
Ubuntu 131 38.08
Debian 101 29.36
CentOS 125 36.34
RHEL 34 9.88
SLES \ OpenSuse 21 6.10
Other 55 15.99






What equipment do you use?



Answered question: 343

Skipped question: 62

Answer Answered %
Supermicro 171 50.00
Dell 131 38.30
HPE 89 26.02
Other 162 47.23






What drives do you use?



Answered question: 342

Omitted question: 63

Answer Answered %
HDD 305 89.18
SSD (SAS, SATA) 261 76.32
NVMe 161 47.08
Others 21 6.14






Are you using a separate network for OSD?



Answered question: 342

Omitted question: 63

Answer Answered %
Yes 249 72.81
No 93 27.19




What software do you use with Ceph?



Answered question: 340

Missed question: 65

Answer Answered %
RBD on Linux servers 123 36.18
Proxmox 114 33.53
KVM 105 30.88
Openstack 97 28.53
Kubernetes 88 25.88
Other 178 52.35






What are you using RBD for?



Answered question: 295

Skipped question: 110

Answer Answered %
Virtualization 232 78.64
Backup 133 45.08
The clouds 122 41.36
Containers 117 39.66
Archive storage 94 31.86






What are you using RGW for?



Answered question: 163

Omitted question: 242

Answer Answered %
Archival storage 105 64.42
Backup 92 56.44
Big data and analytics 61 37.42






What are you using CephFS for?



Answered question: 184

Skipped question: 221

Answer Answered %
General purpose NAS 98 53.26
Backup 87 47.28
Home directories 63 34.24
Archival storage 54 29.35
Media \ Streaming 44 23.91






What kind of monitoring do you use?



Answered question: 312

Omitted question: 93

Answer Answered %
Ceph Dashboard 170 54.49
Grafana (custom settings) 135 43.27
Prometheus 126 40.38
Proxmox 91 29.17
Zabbix 60 19.23
Nagios \ Icinga 54 17.31






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The data for the graphs is taken from here .



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