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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

Operating system decisions


There are a number of factors to consider when designing the operating system deployment of your Ceph clusters. Some, like the complement of packages to be installed can be tweaked later. Others, especially the size and layout of boot drive partitions and filesystems, would require substantial effort to adjust after the fact. It is best to carefully plan in advance when bootstrapping your systems.

Kernel and operating system

While some adventurous Ceph admins have worked to deploy Ceph on other operating systems such as Solaris or FreeBSD, Ceph is designed to be deployed on modern Linux systems. Determined implementers can build Ceph from source code, but most sites deploy pre-built packages. Ceph is available as .deb packages for Debian-derived distributions including Ubuntu, and as .rpm packages for Red Hat family distributions including RHEL and CentOS. SUSE also shows significant commitment to Ceph and offers packages as well.

While Ceph's backend servers run...