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Ceph Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Vikhyat Umrao, Karan Singh, Michael Hackett
Book Image

Ceph Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Vikhyat Umrao, Karan Singh, Michael Hackett

Overview of this book

Ceph is a unified distributed storage system designed for reliability and scalability. This technology has been transforming the software-defined storage industry and is evolving rapidly as a leader with its wide range of support for popular cloud platforms such as OpenStack, and CloudStack, and also for virtualized platforms. Ceph is backed by Red Hat and has been developed by community of developers which has gained immense traction in recent years. This book will guide you right from the basics of Ceph , such as creating blocks, object storage, and filesystem access, to advanced concepts such as cloud integration solutions. The book will also cover practical and easy to implement recipes on CephFS, RGW, and RBD with respect to the major stable release of Ceph Jewel. Towards the end of the book, recipes based on troubleshooting and best practices will help you get to grips with managing Ceph storage in a production environment. By the end of this book, you will have practical, hands-on experience of using Ceph efficiently for your storage requirements.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Configuring a cache tier

A cache tier has several configuration options that define the cache tier policy. This cache tier policy is required to flush data from the cache tier to the storage tier in case of a writeback. In the case of the read-only cache tier, it moves the data from the storage tier to the cache tier. In this recipe, I have tried to demonstrate the cache tier with the writeback mode. These are some settings that you should configure for your production environment, with different values based on your requirements.

How to do it...

Now that we have a cache tier configured, we need to set some recommended configuration options for the cache pool:

  1. If looking to use a cache-tier in a production deployment, you...