Architecture and workload isolation of IBM Storage Ceph as a Service

IBM® Storage Ceph® as a Service is a hardware appliance hosted in your datacenter and remotely managed for you by IBM.

Review the following sample architecture for IBM Storage Ceph as a Service, and learn more about how your data is isolated from other workloads.

IBM Storage Ceph as a Service architecture

The following diagram describes the default components that are set up in an IBM® Storage Ceph® as a Service architecture.

Architecture of IBM Storage Ceph as a Service

IBM Storage Ceph as a Service workload isolation

Each IBM Storage Ceph as a Service deployment instance manages one appliance which is located within your datacenter. The service lifecycle and access operations and APIs are managed within your IBM Cloud account and is not accessible to any other IBM Cloud account. All data management and access APIs are accessible within your datacenter and are not remotely accessible.

IBM Cloud Satellite is used to communicate between the IBM Cloud management services and the appliance. This connection is encrypted and isolated to each appliance instance.