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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

Chapter 6. Storage Provisioning with Ceph

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Setting up a Ceph block device

  • Setting up the Ceph filesystem

  • Setting up Ceph object storage using a RADOS gateway

  • Configuring S3 and Swift with a Ceph RADOS gateway

Storage provisioning is the primary and most important task of a storage system administrator. It is the process of assigning storage space or capacity to both physical and virtual servers in the form of blocks, files, or objects. A typical computer system and servers come with a limited local storage capacity that is not enough for your data storage needs. Storage solutions such as Ceph provide virtually unlimited storage capacity to these servers, making them capable to store all your data and making sure you do not run out of space.

In addition to providing extra storage, there are numerous benefits of having a centralized storage system.

Ceph can provision storage capacity in a unified way, which includes block storage, filesystem, and...