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Learning Ceph - Second Edition

By : Karan Singh, Vaibhav Bhembre, Anthony D'Atri
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Learning Ceph - Second Edition

By: Karan Singh, Vaibhav Bhembre, Anthony D'Atri

Overview of this book

Learning Ceph, Second Edition will give you all the skills you need to plan, deploy, and effectively manage your Ceph cluster. You will begin with the first module, where you will be introduced to Ceph use cases, its architecture, and core projects. In the next module, you will learn to set up a test cluster, using Ceph clusters and hardware selection. After you have learned to use Ceph clusters, the next module will teach you how to monitor cluster health, improve performance, and troubleshoot any issues that arise. In the last module, you will learn to integrate Ceph with other tools such as OpenStack, Glance, Manila, Swift, and Cinder. By the end of the book you will have learned to use Ceph effectively for your data storage requirements.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction to OpenStack


OpenStack is an open source platform for multitenant-capable private or public cloud deployments, providing components to build a flexible and scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. As free open source software, OpenStack offers a rich suite of capabilities without vendor lock-in or expensive licensing. OpenStack is governed by the non-profit OpenStack Foundation and backed by prominent companies including Red Hat, Mirantis, Dell, Cisco, IBM, and Rackspace. There are also myriad individual contributors.

OpenStack's components are too numerous to list in full, so here we'll concentrate on those that leverage Ceph most prominently. Here's a diagram showing how these interact with Ceph.

Nova

Nova is the heart of OpenStack: it creates and manages virtual machine instances usually leveraging QEMU/KVM but other guest virtualization technologies are also available via the libvirt system including Xen, Hyper-V, VMware, and even bare metal. Nova assorts instances...