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Mastering Ceph - Second Edition

By : Nick Fisk
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Mastering Ceph - Second Edition

By: Nick Fisk

Overview of this book

Ceph is an open source distributed storage system that is scalable to Exabyte deployments. This second edition of Mastering Ceph takes you a step closer to becoming an expert on Ceph. You’ll get started by understanding the design goals and planning steps that should be undertaken to ensure successful deployments. In the next sections, you’ll be guided through setting up and deploying the Ceph cluster with the help of orchestration tools. This will allow you to witness Ceph’s scalability, erasure coding (data protective) mechanism, and automated data backup features on multiple servers. You’ll then discover more about the key areas of Ceph including BlueStore, erasure coding and cache tiering with the help of examples. Next, you’ll also learn some of the ways to export Ceph into non-native environments and understand some of the pitfalls that you may encounter. The book features a section on tuning that will take you through the process of optimizing both Ceph and its supporting infrastructure. You’ll also learn to develop applications, which use Librados and distributed computations with shared object classes. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll learn to troubleshoot issues and handle various scenarios where Ceph is not likely to recover on its own. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to master storage management with Ceph and generate solutions for managing your infrastructure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Planning And Deployment
6
Section 2: Operating and Tuning
13
Section 3: Troubleshooting and Recovery

Summary

You should now have extensive knowledge on how to tune a Ceph cluster to maximize performance and achieve lower latency. Through the use of benchmarks, you should now be able to perform before and after tests to confirm whether your tunings have had the desired effect. It is worth reviewing the official Ceph documentation to get a better understanding of some of the other configuration options that may be beneficial to your cluster.

You have also learned about some of the key factors that effect Ceph performance and how to tune them, such as CPU clock speed and sleep states. Ensuring that the infrastructure your Ceph cluster is running on is running at peak performance will ensure that Ceph can perform at its very best.

In the next chapter we will discuss tiering and how it can be used to increase performance by combining different disk technologies together.

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