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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

Summary


In this chapter we've explored a long list of factors and decisions to consider when planning your Ceph clusters. The lure of diving right in with purchase orders and deployments is strong, but we must stress the benefits of careful planning in advance so that you implement the right architecture for performance, reliability, scalability, and flexibility.

In the next chapter we'll deploy a real, working Ceph cluster in virtual machines. This sandbox will help you get a feel for the dynamics of a Ceph deployment and help practice a number of deployment and maintenance operations without committing to expensive and time-consuming physical server provisioning.