In this chapter, we learned to install a Ceph cluster from the ground up and connected it to our Proxmox cluster. Treat this chapter as an introduction to Ceph. There is a lot more to Ceph than what has been covered here. Read the Ceph official documentation to learn about Ceph in greater detail.
Ceph is an excellent choice for a shared storage system for Proxmox due to its stability, performance, and significant lower cost. No matter the workload, a Ceph cluster can expand to meet the demand. Whether it is a single-tier or multitier storage environment, Ceph can handle them with ease. With Proxmox Version 3.2, managing Ceph just got better.
In the next chapter, we are going to get a glimpse of an enterprise-sized virtual environment, hardware requirements, and what keeps a cluster going month after month without downtime.
Exercise:
Consider a Ceph cluster has five nodes, 120 OSDs, three replicas, and four pools. Based on this information, we need to find the following values:
What...