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Mastering Ceph

By : Nick Fisk
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Mastering Ceph

By: Nick Fisk

Overview of this book

Mastering Ceph covers all that you need to know to use Ceph effectively. Starting with design goals and planning steps that should be undertaken to ensure successful deployments, you will be guided through to setting up and deploying the Ceph cluster, with the help of orchestration tools. Key areas of Ceph including Bluestore, Erasure coding and cache tiering will be covered with help of examples. Development of applications which use Librados and Distributed computations with shared object classes are also covered. A section on tuning will take you through the process of optimisizing both Ceph and its supporting infrastructure. Finally, you will learn to troubleshoot issues and handle various scenarios where Ceph is likely not to recover on its own. By the end of the book, you will be able to successfully deploy and operate a resilient high performance Ceph cluster.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Slow performance

Slow performance is defined when the cluster is actively processing IO requests, but it appears to be operating at a lower performance level than what is expected. Generally, slow performance is caused by a component of your Ceph cluster reaching saturation and becoming a bottleneck. This maybe due to an increased number of client requests or a component failure that is causing Ceph to perform recovery.

Causes

Although there are many things which may cause Ceph to experience slow performance, here are some of the most likely causes.

Increased client workload

Sometimes, slow performance may not be...