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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

Hardware selection criteria


There is a dizzying amount of hardware for today's x64 servers. In this section, we'll explore a number of these choices to help you navigate the selection process for your local conditions and requirements. We'll discuss the ramifications of each and offer thoughts on trade-offs, limitations, and opportunities.

Corporate procurement policies

Hardware choice may be constrained by organizational policy. Perhaps your company enjoys a volume discount from HP, or has an umbrella support contract with IBM. You may even work for a company that sells servers and are thus urged or compelled to keep it in the family, dogfood style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food.

In most cases, this will not crimp your Ceph-stacking style substantially, though this author has seen three problematic instances.

  • On occasion, procurement policies are so draconian that it is nearly impossible to order a custom hardware configuration, with the only choices a small handful...