ZFS vs Ceph vs NVMe-oF: Choosing the Right Storage Backend for Modern Virtualization
I still have nightmares about a storage migration I ran back in 2014. We were moving off a monolithic SAN and onto an early “software-defined” storage platform. The sales engineers promised infinite scalability and self-healing magic. Two weeks in, a top-of-rack switch flapped, the cluster split-brained, and the SDS platform completely lost the plot. We…