the FrankeNAS – (Raspberry Pi, Zima Board, Dell Server, Ugreen) // a CEPH Tutorial

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  NetworkChuck is building a FrankeNAS using CEPH, an open-source software-defined storage system. Learn how to turn a pile of old hardware into a powerful, scalable storage cluster that rivals enterprise solutions. This video covers Ceph architecture, installation, and configuration, demonstrating how to create a flexible, fault-tolerant storage system using a mix of devices. Whether you're a home lab enthusiast or IT professional, discover the power of decentralized storage and how Ceph can revolutionize your data management approach.

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  *00:00* – Intro: the FrankeNASS
  *00:45* – Why you NEED CEPH
  *04:45* – How CEPH works
  *19:55* – TUTORIAL – CEPH Cluster Setup

• What a time to be a live .

• As long as (My) daddy’s love me .

• Grate stuff, please do more on Ceph , can’t believe I watched more than 40 minutes one shot.

• It's just CEPH you either feel it in your squanch or you don't

• Ceph is basically communism for computers

• just wow i need part2 asap what a nas

• thank you for this video great!
  i would appreciate a video now, what would happen when your first manager goes down? how to handle that? do you ned to install cephadm on the next manager or ist it installed?
  some real-life scenarios would be nice, or what happens when some drives going to down?

  thx!! you're great!

• assistant to regional manager <3

• You wanted us to tell you if we want more … Yes please

• You Need To Make More Content On CEPH! RIGHT NOW!!

• Lovely to see more videos about Ceph. I found it when we ran out of space on our production environment. Had dabbled with it a bit at home but I had to put it into production like yesterday so that was a herowing week at work. Now 2 years later we have learned a lot and I made a bunch of videos on the topic, and it's still rock solid.

• please make a proxmox version of this and ceph!!

• you should look at other netfs too and benchmark them to get a real view at your choices #ocfs2 #gluster #nfs #sshfs #load balanced

• This was awesome and has me thinking about reconfiguring my current setup. Can you go over in a future video on if there's any possibility on setting up docker containers for Plex, etc and how you would swap a defective hard drive?

• Awesome video and I would love to see more! Thank you for doing this!

• awesome stuff!!

• can you show scenarios of one host down and disaster

• 💛

• Really enjoyed this video. Cool stuff!

• Part 2 suggestion… integration with ProxMox

• "JUNK" lol

• Title and description: CEPH
  Subtitles: sEtH or sEf

• What about garage storage? There is never enough storage room there..

• Not badmouthing the technology, but thankfully I don’t need this. Seems way more involved than I want to deal with.

• Excellent Video — Superimpressed but I am still not clear on
  a. snapshot and snapshot schedules [ snapshots are must or else one Ransomeware attack will take everything ]
  b. osd recovery process if osd dies
  c. can any system which is a part of ceph storage cluster, can be removed, if needed ?
  d. is it okay to run a ceph cluster on 1 gb network ?

• I've actually wanted to learn CEPH!!!

• I use ceph at work, I honestly didn't know you could map ceph directly in Linux remotely? I've always used SMB/NFS.

  So, to pay it forward, one or two things I've learned over the years:

  1. Power Loss Protection or PLP is a game changer on SSD. TLDR, It allows the SSD to "say" it finished copying when it actually hasn't. This has a massive affect on speed.

  2. If you set it up properly, you can have a "third" speed teir. So not just SSD/HDD, but the ability to WRITE to SSD and STORE the data on HDD much like read/write cache in normal ZFS.

  Thank you @networkchuck

• Part 2?

• Came for CEPH, glad I stayed for SAMBA 🙂

• More CEPH!!!

• part 2 part 3 more more more this is just what I need to use for my set-up at home. enjoy the content

• What happens with chuck eye? 3:23 hhhh

• I'd love to see a follow up video on using all the same hardware for services that utilize the storage. Webserver on one, media on another, etc. or are all these hosts now locked down to being only storage?

• This is awesome!!! But where do I offload all my data so I can reformat all my disks? O o

• ceph can deploy distribute smb containers for you on your cluster, making any node a distributed smb server with access to the ceph filesystem – which also means that you can use all capable nodes to host an smb container (on which is distributed access creds and filesystems to export via smb), and then you can use dns to do round-robin load balancing if you had a team of folks who needed to work from the ceph filesystem you've created over samba (depending on your scaling needs.) ceph can be used on anything from 3 raspberry pi's with external hard drives to multiple sites with full datacenters full of hard drives and ssd's with different crush map policies to keep data fast, locally accessible, and far-flung distributed. HOWEVER, this is NOT without cost. ceph is REALLY REALLY RIDICULOUSLY REALLY REALLY REALLY SLOW for writes in particular, because it has to write as many copies as you scope before each block commits. how much slower depending on how fast your storage is, how many parts the file is broken up into, and how fast your backend network is to deliver that data to it's clients. caching and ssd tiering can help, but even that's pretty darned slow in my testing. I have a 5-node proxmox cluster (i7-8700, 64gb ram each with dual 10g network cards lagg'd to a fast 10g switch, a boot ssd, and an osd ssd (2tb crucial p3 plus)) I wanted to put all my vm storage on ceph (which proxmox supports rados block devices (RBD) directly which is pretty cool). I did A/B testing on the same exactly drives and equipment (before and after ceph) and found that under my testing parameters that ceph is 1/10th the performance of just using the storage natively. here are screenshots of my tests https://imgur.com/a/Srul5qT

• question if you get ransomware on one drive would it be replicated to the other drives.

• What if you format the flash drives as NTFS? Or other.

• chuck do you have a lazy eye?

• Assistant to the regional manager, eh? Not assistant regional manager?

• Teaches practical skills better than most college professors.

• I have 4 storage clustered ceph, it's huge… Now, how do to backuo😂

• I will not replace TrueNAS with CEPH
  I will not replace TrueNAS with CEPH
  I will not replace TrueNAS with CEPH

• ubuntu 24.04 lts is the current version as of this video. is ceph broken on that?

• Hey Network Chuck,

  I'm a cybersecurity tester, and I have to say your videos are spot on. It's great to see someone spreading accurate information, unlike many YouTubers nowadays who often share misleading content. I really appreciate your in-depth content on cybersecurity.

  I have a couple of questions for you: Have you ever considered making a video on how to reverse the connection to a scammer's PC? I know it might be outside your usual scope, but I'm curious about your thoughts on this. Also, what is your operating system of choice for cybersecurity work? Mine is Linux.

• ceph might be the flavor of the month

• Where ya been Chuck? it's been 3 weeks bro, hope all is well

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