[ceph-users] Vitastor, a fast Ceph-like block storage for VMs

Hi! After almost a year of development in my spare time I present my own software-defined block storage system: Vitastor - https://vitastor.io I designed it similar to Ceph in many ways, it also has Pools, PGs, OSDs, different coding schemes, rebalancing and so on. However it's much simpler and much faster. In a test cluster with SATA SSDs it achieved Q1T1 latency of 0.14ms which is especially great compared to Ceph RBD's 1ms for writes and 0.57ms for reads. In an "iops saturation" parallel load benchmark it reached 895k read / 162k write iops, compared to Ceph's 480k / 100k on the same hardware, but the most interesting part was CPU usage: Ceph OSDs were using 40 CPU cores out of 64 on each node and Vitastor was only using 4. Of course it's an early pre-release which means that, for example, it lacks snapshot support and other useful features. However the base is finished - it works and runs QEMU VMs. I like the design and I plan to develop it further. There are more details in the README file which currently opens from the domain https://vitastor.io Sorry if it was a bit off-topic, I just thought it could be interesting for you :) -- With best regards, Vitaliy Filippov