न म स्का र Many in Cloud industry have heard about Ceph Storage as the storage backend for Openstack environment. Its also getting popular as an Object Storage (due to its underlying RADOS structure). Many reference whitepaper's are avaialble to understand architecture and performance what it can deliver in various configurations. Today's focus is on a different aspect of Ceph Storage being used as standalone block storage for Telco Network Analytics. Following are a couple of use cases for reference. 1) RBD Block Storage for Linux based App Server's (standalone/bare metal Linux server's or VM's) Some Telco ISV's running Unified Performance Management to monitor and analyze the telco network performance needs to store and analyze lot of data. Hence they need distributed storage as a backend connected to multiple APP Server's for the high throughput / IOPS requirements. Figure 1 below gives an architectural view of providing RBD devices as dis...