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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

Introduction to OpenStack


OpenStack is a free and open source software platform for building and managing public and private cloud computing platforms. It is governed by an independent, nonprofit foundation known as OpenStack foundation. It has the largest and most active community backed by technology giants such as HP, Red Hat, Dell, Cisco, IBM, Rackspace, and many more. OpenStack's idea for cloud is that it should be simple to implement and massively scalable.

OpenStack is considered as the cloud operating system that allows users to instantly deploy hundreds of virtual machines in an automated way. It also provides an efficient, hassle-free management of these machines. OpenStack is known for its dynamic scale up, scale out, and distributed architecture capabilities, making your cloud environment robust and future ready.

OpenStack provides the enterprise class Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform for all your cloud needs. The following is the architecture of OpenStack:

OpenStack...