Ceph: object storage, block storage, file system, replication, massive scalability and then some!

Posted on Fri 31 May 2013 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph, Conference

This is one of my most popular talks, co-presented with intrepid cartoonist-turned-engineer Tim Serong from SUSE.


This article originally appeared on the hastexo.com website (now defunct).


Ceph: The Storage Stack for OpenStack

Posted on Tue 28 May 2013 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph, Conference

My presentation from OpenStack Israel, May 27, 2013. After a brief introduction into Ceph, I dive into OpenStack specific Ceph features and outlines RBD integration with Glance and Cinder, and explains RadosGW Swift compatibility.


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High Availability Update: You can now vote our talk into the OpenStack summit!

Posted on Thu 21 February 2013 in blog • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack

For the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Portland, Syed Armani and I have submitted a talk on OpenStack high availability. Here's how you can make sure it makes it into the program.

Our talk, More reliable, more resilient, more redundant: High Availability Update for Grizzly and beyond, is an extended overview …


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MySQL High Availability Deep Dive

Posted on Mon 03 December 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, MySQL, Pacemaker, Galera

This is a tutorial that Yves Trudeau and I presented at the Percona Live UK 2012 conference in London. It covers Pacemaker integration with DRBD, MySQL Replication, and Galera.


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GlusterFS in High Availability Clusters

Posted on Thu 08 November 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, GlusterFS

My Pacemaker presentation from the GlusterFS Workshop at LinuxCon Europe 2012. Presented in Barcelona in November of 2012, this is a overview of integrating GlusterFS with the Pacemaker cluster stack.

This tutorial gives an overview of

  • The Pacemaker stack,
  • Using GlusterFS for Pacemaker storage,
  • Managing GlusterFS volumes from Pacemaker.

My …


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