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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

Preparing your Ceph installation


Earlier in this chapter, we discussed some traits of selecting the right hardware depending on your needs and use case. You should make the necessary arrangements for your cluster hardware including networking components. The cluster hardware should be mounted, cabled, powered on, and should have valid networking between its nodes. Once you are ready with the hardware, the next task is to perform software arrangements for your cluster.

Ceph is a software-defined storage system, which runs on top of a Linux-based operating system. All the cluster nodes should be installed with Ceph-supported operating system. As of now, the valid operating system choice for running a Ceph cluster is RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and OpenSuse. You can check out more information for supported platforms on http://ceph.com/docs/master/start/os-recommendations/.

Note

It is recommended that you use the same OS distribution, release, and kernel version across all Ceph cluster...