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Ceph Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Vikhyat Umrao, Karan Singh, Michael Hackett
Book Image

Ceph Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Vikhyat Umrao, Karan Singh, Michael Hackett

Overview of this book

Ceph is a unified distributed storage system designed for reliability and scalability. This technology has been transforming the software-defined storage industry and is evolving rapidly as a leader with its wide range of support for popular cloud platforms such as OpenStack, and CloudStack, and also for virtualized platforms. Ceph is backed by Red Hat and has been developed by community of developers which has gained immense traction in recent years. This book will guide you right from the basics of Ceph , such as creating blocks, object storage, and filesystem access, to advanced concepts such as cloud integration solutions. The book will also cover practical and easy to implement recipes on CephFS, RGW, and RBD with respect to the major stable release of Ceph Jewel. Towards the end of the book, recipes based on troubleshooting and best practices will help you get to grips with managing Ceph storage in a production environment. By the end of this book, you will have practical, hands-on experience of using Ceph efficiently for your storage requirements.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

The ceph-objectstore-tool

One of the key features of Ceph is its self-repairing and self-healing qualities. Ceph does this by keeping multiple copies of placement groups across different OSDs and ensures very high probability that you will not lose your data. In very rare cases, you may see the failure of multiple OSDs, where one or more PG replicas are on a failed OSD, and the PG state becomes incomplete, which leads to errors in the cluster health. For granular recovery, Ceph provides a low-level PG and object data recovery tool known as ceph-objectstore-tool.

The ceph-objectstore-tool can be a risky operation, and the command needs to be run either as root or sudo. Do not attempt this on a production cluster without engaging the Red Hat Ceph Storage Support, unless you are sure of what you are doing. It can cause irreversible data loss in your cluster.
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