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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

Summary


Storage provisioning is the most frequent operation a storage administration has to perform. As compared to traditional enterprise storage systems, you no longer need to procure and manage multiple storage systems for different storage types. Ceph uniquely delivers object, block, and file storage from a single unified system. In this chapter, we learned how to configure and provision RADOS block devices, Ceph filesystems, and the Ceph object storage. It's been more than two decades that the block device and filesystem storage types exist; however, object storage is fairly new is gaining momentum now due to Amazon S3 and Swift. Ceph extends its support to S3 and Swift APIs. In this chapter, we also learned the configuration of S3 and Swift separately, followed by their usage. In the next chapter, we will learn about Ceph service management and the Ceph cluster.