Not a full answer to what you’re looking for, but something adjacent: https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2025/rgw-tiering-enhancements-part1/ https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2025/rgw-tiering-enhancements-part2/ <https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2025/rgw-tiering-enhancements-part2/> I’m not sure if/when this will appear in a Squid release — maybe it’s already there — but I have to imagine it will be in Tentacle. Perhaps you could invert the usual tiering logic and have your clients point at the Ceph RGW endpoint, but I suspect that wouldn’t meet you performance needs. However, here https://www.netapp.com/data-services/tiering/ I see a NetApp feature called BlueXP that appears to do this sort of tiering. The description is a big vague, but it speaks of cloud object storage and mentions AWS, so it seems quite plausible that it could be pointed at an RGW endpoint for tiering.
Hi all,
We're exploring solutions to offload large volumes of data (on the order of petabytes) from our NetApp all-flash storage to our more cost-effective, HDD-based Ceph storage cluster, based on criteria such as: last access time older than X years.
Ideally, we would like to leave behind a 'stub' or placeholder file on the NetApp side to preserve the original directory structure and potentially enable some sort of transparent access or recall if needed. This kind of setup is commonly supported by solutions like DataCore/FileFly, but as far as we can tell, FileFly doesn’t support Ceph as a backend and instead favors its own Swarm object store.
Has anyone here implemented a similar tiering/archive/migration solution involving NetApp and Ceph?
We’re specifically looking for:
* Enterprise-grade tooling
* Stub file support or similar metadata-preserving offload
* Support and reliability (given the scale, we can’t afford data loss or inconsistency)
* Either commercial or well-supported open source solutions
Any do’s/don’ts, war stories, or product recommendations would be greatly appreciated. We’re open to paying for software or services if it brings us the reliability and integration we need.
Thanks in advance!
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