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Learning Ceph - Second Edition

By : Karan Singh, Vaibhav Bhembre, Anthony D'Atri
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Learning Ceph - Second Edition

By: Karan Singh, Vaibhav Bhembre, Anthony D'Atri

Overview of this book

Learning Ceph, Second Edition will give you all the skills you need to plan, deploy, and effectively manage your Ceph cluster. You will begin with the first module, where you will be introduced to Ceph use cases, its architecture, and core projects. In the next module, you will learn to set up a test cluster, using Ceph clusters and hardware selection. After you have learned to use Ceph clusters, the next module will teach you how to monitor cluster health, improve performance, and troubleshoot any issues that arise. In the last module, you will learn to integrate Ceph with other tools such as OpenStack, Glance, Manila, Swift, and Cinder. By the end of the book you will have learned to use Ceph effectively for your data storage requirements.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

The Best Choice for OpenStack storage


Anyone who has attended the increasingly popular OpenStack Summit conference can attest to the growing enthusiasm for and adoption of OpenStack as the framework for open cloud deployments. This author helped deploy and manage over a dozen OpenStack regions around the world.

Cloud infrastructures need a fast, robust, and especially scalable bulk storage solution without bottlenecks. Here are some of the reasons why Ceph is the best choice for OpenStack clouds:

  • Ceph provides a single back-end for block, file, and object storage. You do not need to manage three disparate and disjoint storage systems.
  • Ceph offers advanced block storage functionality that enables fast creation, backup / snapshotting and cloning of volumes and virtual machine instances.
  • Ceph's thin-provisioning and copy-on-write (COW) abilities facilitate fast parallel instance creation without the penalty of serially writing each volume's full space up-front.
  • Ceph provides persistent volumes that...