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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)

Setting up the VSM environment

In order to use VSM, you are required to build the Ceph cluster using VSM. VSM version 2.2.0 can control or manage the existing Ceph cluster (import the existing Ceph cluster). In this recipe, we will use Vagrant to launch four virtual machines named vsm-controller, vsm-node1, vsm-node2, and vsm-node3. The vsm-controller virtual machine will act as the VSM controller node and vsm-node1, vsm-node2, and vsm-node3 will act as VSM agent nodes running the Ceph cluster.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps for setting up the VSM environment:

  1. The Vagrantfile for launching the VSM virtual machines is available on the Ceph-Cookbook-Second-Edition GitHub repository. Clone this repository, if...