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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 – the best match for OpenStack


In the last few years, OpenStack has been getting amazingly popular as it's based on software-defined everything, whether it's compute, networking, or even storage. When you talk about storage for OpenStack, Ceph will get all the attraction. Ceph provides a robust, reliable storage backend that OpenStack was looking for. It's a seamless integration with OpenStack components such as Cinder, Glance, Nova, and keystone, which provides all-in-one cloud storage backend for OpenStack. Here are some key benefits that make Ceph the best match for OpenStack:

  • Ceph provides enterprise-grade, feature-rich storage backend at a very low cost per gigabyte, which helps to keep the OpenStack cloud deployment price down.

  • Ceph is a unified storage solution of block, file, or object storage for OpenStack, allowing applications to use storage as they need.

  • Ceph provides advance block storage capabilities for OpenStack clouds that include easy-and-quick spin up, backup, and cloning...