See you at the Cephdays in Frankfurt

A quick post to tell everybody that I’ll be giving a presentation at the Ceph day in Frankfurt. Obviously, I’ll be representing the company I work for, eNovance. The event is next Thursday, February 27, 2014. I am going to talk about Ceph, performance and benchmarking. You can check the details and schedule of the event here. See you there!

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Crash course: next generation servers with containers

For more than a year, containers have become more and more popular especially thanks to rise of Docker. Unfortunately the concept itself is not always clear for everyone. It is important to understand the difference between LXC and Docker. In this article, I will expose the different technologies available.

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Check if KVM has the support of Ceph

As you may know Ceph is not part of Debian Wheezy, thus QEMU-KVM was not compiled with the Ceph support (--enable-rbd with both librbd and librados). This article is just a quick tip to detect if your QEMU-KVM has the support of Ceph.

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