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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

Ceph logging

When investigating errors, it is very handy to be able to look through the Ceph log files to get a better idea of what is going on. By default, the logging levels are set so that only the important events are logged. During troubleshooting, the logging levels may need to be increased in order to reveal the cause of the error. To increase the logging level, you can either edit ceph.conf, add the new logging level, and then restart the component, or, if you don't wish to restart the Ceph daemons, you can inject the new configuration parameter into the live running daemon. To inject parameters, use the ceph tell command:

ceph tell osd.0 injectargs --debug-osd 0/5

Then, set the logging level for the OSD log on osd.0 to 0/5. The number 0 is the disk logging level, and the number 5 is the in-memory logging level.

At a logging level of 20, the logs are extremely verbose...