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Learning Ceph

By : Karan Singh
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Learning Ceph

By: Karan Singh

Overview of this book

<p>Ceph is an open source, software-defined storage solution, which runs on commodity hardware to provide exabyte-level scalability. It is well known to be a highly reliable storage system that has no single point of failure.</p> <p>This book will give you all the skills you need to plan, deploy, and effectively manage your Ceph cluster, guiding you through an overview of Ceph's technology, architecture, and components. With a step-by-step, tutorial-style explanation of the deployment of each Ceph component, the book will take you through Ceph storage provisioning and integration with OpenStack.</p> <p>You will then discover how to deploy and set up your Ceph cluster, discovering the various components and why we need them. This book takes you from a basic level of knowledge in Ceph to an expert understanding of its most advanced features.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Ceph
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Ceph cluster performance tuning


As mentioned earlier, performance tuning is mostly environment-specific. Your organization environment and hardware infrastructure for Ceph cluster will be a lot different from other organizations. Things you tune for your Ceph cluster may or may not work the same way as in other environments. In this section, we will discuss some general performance tuning parameters that you can tailor more specifically for your environment.

Global tuning parameters

The parameters mentioned in this section should be defined under the [global] section of your Ceph cluster configuration file.

Network

It's highly recommended that you use two physically separated networks for your Ceph cluster. Each of these networks has their own set of responsibilities. Under Ceph's terminology, these networks are referred to as public and cluster networks:

  • The public network is also referred to as the client-side network that allows clients to communicate with Ceph clusters and access the cluster...