MySQL and CephJoin Brent Compton, Kyle Bader and Yves Trudeau on August 2, 2016 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) for a MySQL and Ceph webinar.

Many operators select OpenStack as their control plane of choice for providing both internal and external IT services. The OpenStack user survey repeatedly shows Ceph as the dominant backend for providing persistent storage volumes through OpenStack Cinder. When building applications and repatriating old workloads, developers are discovering the need to provide OpenStack infrastructure database services. Given MySQL’s ubiquity, and it’s reliance on persistent storage, it is of utmost importance to understand how to achieve the performance demanded by today’s applications. Databases like MySQL can be incredibly IO intensive, and Ceph offers a great opportunity to go beyond the limitations presented by a single scale-up system. Since Ceph provides a mutable object store with atomic operations, could MySQL store InnoDB pages directly in Ceph?

This talk reviews the general architecture of Ceph, and then discusses benchmark results from small to mid-size Ceph clusters. These benchmarks lead to the development of prescriptive guidance around tuning Ceph storage nodes (OSDs), the impact the amount of physical memory, and the presence of SSDs, high-speed networks or RAID controllers.

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Speakers:
MySQL and Ceph
Brent Compton
Director Storage Solution Architectures, Red Hat
Brent Compton is Director Storage Solution Architectures at Red Hat. He leads the team responsible for building Ceph and Gluster storage reference architectures with Red Hat Storage partners. Before Red Hat, Brent was responsible for emerging non-volatile memory software technologies at Fusion-io. Previous enterprise software leadership roles include VP Product Management at Micromuse (now IBM Tivoli Netcool) and Product Marketing Director within HP’s OpenView software division. Brent also served as Director Middleware Development Platforms at the LDS Church and as CIO at Joint Commission International. Brent has a tight-knit family, and can be found on skis or a mountain bike whenever possible.
MySQL and Ceph
Kyle Bader
Sr Solution Architect, Red Hat
Kyle Bader, a Red Hat senior architect, provides expertise in the design and operation of petabyte-scale storage systems using Ceph. He joined Red Hat as part of the 2014 Inktank acquisition. As a senior systems engineer at DreamHost, he helped implement, operate, and design Ceph and OpenStack-based systems for DreamCompute and DreamObjects cloud products.
MySQL and Ceph
Yves Trudeau
Principal Architect
Yves is a Principal Consultant at Percona, specializing in MySQL High-Availability and scaling solutions. Before joining Percona in 2009, he worked as a senior consultant for MySQL AB and Sun Microsystems, assisting customers across North America with NDB Cluster and Heartbeat/DRBD technologies. Yves holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from Université de Sherbrooke. He lives in Québec, Canada with his wife and three daughters.