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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

Writing a RADOS class that simulates distributed computing

As mentioned in the example given earlier, although using the Lua object class reduces the complexity to use RADOS object classes, there is a limit to what you can currently achieve. In order to write a class that is capable of performing more advanced processing, we need to fall back to writing the class in C. We will then need to compile the new class in the Ceph source.

To demonstrate this, we will write a new RADOS object class that will calculate the MD5 hash of the specified object and then store it as an attribute of the object. This process will be repeated 1,000 times to simulate a busy environment and also to make the runtime easier to measure. We will then compare the operating speed of doing this via the object class versus calculating the MD5 hash on the client. Although this is still a fairly basic task,...