Karan Singh

Over 100 effective recipes to help you design, implement, and troubleshoot manage the software-defined and massively scalable Ceph storage system. About This Book • Implement a Ceph cluster successfully and learn to manage it. • Recipe based approach in learning the most efficient software defined storage system • Implement best practices on improving efficiency and security of your storage cluster • Learn to troubleshoot common issues experienced in a Ceph cluster Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at storage and cloud engineers, system administrators, or anyone who is interested in building software defined storage, to power your cloud or virtual infrastructure. If you have basic knowledge of GNU/Linux and storage systems, with no experience of software defined storage solutions and Ceph, but eager to learn then this book is for you What You Will Learn • Understand, install, configure, and manage the Ceph storage system • Get to grips with performance tuning and benchmarking, and learn practical tips to help run Ceph in production • Integrate Ceph with OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova components • Deep dive into Ceph object storage, including S3, Swift, and Keystone integration • Configure a disaster recovery solution with a Ceph Multi-Site V2 gateway setup and RADOS Block Device mirroring • Gain hands-on experience with Ceph Metrics and VSM for cluster monitoring • Familiarize yourself with Ceph operations such as maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting • Understand advanced topics including erasure-coding, CRUSH map, cache pool, and general Ceph cluster maintenance In Detail 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. Style and approach This step-by-step guide is filled with practical tutorials, making complex scenarios easy to understand.

Implement and manage your software-defined, massively scalable storage system About This Book • Explore Ceph's architecture in order to achieve scalability and high availability • Learn to utilize Ceph efficiently with the help of practical examples • Successfully implement Ceph clusters to scale-out storage solutions along with outstanding data protection Who This Book Is For A basic knowledge of GNU/Linux, and storage systems, and server components is assumed. If you have no experience of software-defined storage solutions and Ceph, but are eager to learn about them, this is the book for you. What You Will Learn • The limitations of existing systems and why you should use Ceph as a storage solution • Familiarity with Ceph's architecture, components, and services • Instant deployment and testing of Ceph within a Vagrant and VirtualBox environment • Ceph operations including maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting • Storage provisioning of Ceph's block, object, and filesystem services • Integrate Ceph with OpenStack • Advanced topics including erasure coding, CRUSH maps, and performance tuning • Best practices for your Ceph clusters In Detail 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. Style and approach This step-by-step guide, including use cases and examples, not only helps you to easily use Ceph but also demonstrates how you can use it to solve any of your server or drive storage issues.

Over 100 effective recipes to help you design, implement, and manage the software-defined and massively scalable Ceph storage system About This Book • Implement a Ceph cluster successfully and gain deep insights into its best practices • Harness the abilities of experienced storage administrators and architects, and run your own software-defined storage system • This comprehensive, step-by-step guide will show you how to build and manage Ceph storage in production environment Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at storage and cloud system engineers, system administrators, and technical architects who are interested in building software-defined storage solutions to power their cloud and virtual infrastructure. If you have basic knowledge of GNU/Linux and storage systems, with no experience of software defined storage solutions and Ceph, but eager to learn this book is for you. What You Will Learn • Understand, install, configure, and manage the Ceph storage system • Get to grips with performance tuning and benchmarking, and gain practical tips to run Ceph in production • Integrate Ceph with OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and nova components • Deep dive into Ceph object storage, including s3, swift, and keystone integration • Build a Dropbox-like file sync and share service and Ceph federated gateway setup • Gain hands-on experience with Calamari and VSM for cluster monitoring • Familiarize yourself with Ceph operations such as maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting • Understand advanced topics including erasure coding, CRUSH map, cache pool, and system maintenance In Detail Ceph is a unified, distributed storage system designed for excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This cutting-edge technology has been transforming the storage industry, and is evolving rapidly as a leader in software-defined storage space, extending full support to cloud platforms such as Openstack and Cloudstack, including virtualization platforms. It is the most popular storage backend for Openstack, public, and private clouds, so is the first choice for a storage solution. Ceph is backed by RedHat and is developed by a thriving open source community of individual developers as well as several companies across the globe. This book takes you from a basic knowledge of Ceph to an expert understanding of the most advanced features, walking you through building up a production-grade Ceph storage cluster and helping you develop all the skills you need to plan, deploy, and effectively manage your Ceph cluster. Beginning with the basics, you'll create a Ceph cluster, followed by block, object, and file storage provisioning. Next, you'll get a step-by-step tutorial on integrating it with OpenStack and building a Dropbox-like object storage solution. We'll also take a look at federated architecture and CephFS, and you'll dive into Calamari and VSM for monitoring the Ceph environment. You'll develop expert knowledge on troubleshooting and benchmarking your Ceph storage cluster. Finally, you'll get to grips with the best practices to operate Ceph in a production environment. Style and approach This step-by-step guide is filled with practical tutorials, making complex scenarios easy to understand.

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