IBM Storage Ceph is the latest addition to IBM’s software defined Storage Portfolio. IBM has always
had market leading storage software offerings including IBM Storage Scale (formerly GPFS) and IBM
Cloud Object Storage (COS). Whilst the introduction of IBM Storage Ceph does to an extent overlap
with the existing IBM offerings, IBM Storage Ceph still offers a big value proposition to our clients with
very strong S3 API compatibility, the ability to serve out block storage and also strong integration with
Kubernetes. Open source Ceph is widely used worldwide across a multitude of industries and for
varied applications. IBM Storage Ceph is built on open source Ceph and gives customers the ability to
purchase and implement Ceph into mission critical environments with the full backing of IBM support
and development.

This document is primarily meant to help IBM Technical Sellers, Business Partners and IBM customers
deploy and evaluate all of IBM Storage Ceph’s features. Whilst the publicly available documentation
is comprehensive, it is primarily targeted at using the command line. This is the same issue IBM has
had with IBM Storage Scale where our customers perception of the product’s ease of use is
determined by the effort and knowledge required to install, configure and administer the product. This
document serves to make use of the IBM Storage Ceph Dashboard wherever possible to specifically
address this concern. The full implementation of IBM Storage Ceph including all protocols (file, block
and object) are covered in detail along with advanced features like replication, compression and
encryption. Integration with native Kubernetes is also demonstrated.