Any one with OpenStack / CEPH experience?

CEPH is indeed one of the most challenging technical challenges for our Cloud solution development efforts. We have made some key breakthroughs, especially on the iops performance, except for small packet read (4K packet size).

We have been exploring storage solution providers (e.g., https://www.45drives.com) but they are most interested in selling integrated storage solutions than consulting services to help optimize our CEPH performance.
@HostXNow, thanks for your storpool referral.. We will check it out

For storage, this one is supposed to be fast https://storpool.com/
@Mike - MDDHosting used it.

Quoted from Guest on Thursday, 02 October 2025

OpenStack is a big setup and it's complex, but worth the setup and effort.

Have you thought about using Proxmox or oVirt instead. Proxmox and CEPH works like charm and is easy to setup. Also, there is a WHMCS module for Proxmox integration.

Yes, we noticed the Proxmox/CEPH + WHMCS combo, and it is indeed an integrated solution to get started easily

We are aiming to develop extended cloud solutions (beyond VM), targetting Cloud Phone, VM, Secure Container, DBaaS etc. Hence the desire to work with the big/complex frameworks like OpenStack

OpenStack is fine, but needlessly complex.

CEPH is pretty bad for anything other than very large archive space. You won't ever get the performance you should out of it. It works ok but any high i/o workload will make it cry and you'll continually experience lots of random issues with it. Go for a paid provider on your storage architecture and you'll be much better off.

OpenStack is a big setup and it's complex, but worth the setup and effort.

Have you thought about using Proxmox or oVirt instead. Proxmox and CEPH works like charm and is easy to setup. Also, there is a WHMCS module for Proxmox integration.