Introduction to Global Cache

The development of emerging technologies such as 5G and AI has accelerated the generation and flow of data. According to Huawei's Global Industry Vision (GIV) report, the global data volume will reach 180 ZB by 2025. Diversified services are bringing unprecedented growth of data, and data is becoming more and more important. As the data volume increases, applications have higher requirements on storage system performance. Emerging applications have increasingly high performance requirements. How to improve storage system performance to meet service requirements has become a great challenge.

Kunpeng BoostKit for Storage-Defined Storage (SDS) provides a global cache, which is a distributed cache system deployed on an open-source Ceph storage cluster. It improves the IOPS performance and reduces the access latency of the distributed storage system without increasing the hardware cost.

This document describes how to obtain, compile, install, deploy, verify, extend, use, and uninstall the Global Cache software.