There seems to be a new trend: every time I get a new job, the first activity I engage in is benchmarking different SDS solutions. My career at Flant is no exception. I joined the development team for the Deckhouse Kubernetes platform when it decided to focus on running virtual machines in Kubernetes. But first, we had to find an easy-to-use, reliable block-type storage that we could offer to the platform’s customers.
Hence I decided to benchmark several Open Source solutions to see how they behave under various conditions. The focal point was the DRBD performance in different configurations and how they compared to Ceph.
However, the market for software-defined storage is constantly growing and evolving. Ambitious new projects are emerging, including the recently released Mayastor and my fellow collaborator’s pet project Vitastor. The results were pretty exciting and surprising.
