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Ceph Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Karan Singh, Hackett, Umrao
Book Image

Ceph Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Karan Singh, Hackett, Umrao

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)

Introductionc 

The Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) is software originally initiated and developed by Intel for Ceph cluster management; it was later open sourced by Intel under the Apache 2.0 License. Ceph comes with the ceph-deploy CLI tool for cluster deployment, and it also provides a rich CLI for cluster management. VSM, on the other hand, provides a web-based user interface to simplify the creation and management of Ceph clusters. By using the VSM GUI Ceph cluster, the operator can monitor overall cluster health, manage cluster hardware and storage capacity, as well as attach the Ceph storage pools to the OpenStack Cinder.

VSM is developed in Python using OpenStack Horizon as its base for the application framework. It has the familiar look and feel of OpenStack Horizon for both software developers and OpenStack administrators. Some of the key features of VSM include the...