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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Ceph - Introduction and Beyond

Chapter 2: Working with Ceph Block Device

Chapter 3: Working with Ceph and OpenStack

Chapter 4: Working with Ceph Object Storage

Chapter 5: Working with Ceph Object Storage Multi-Site v2

Chapter 6: Working with the Ceph Filesystem

Chapter 7: Monitoring Ceph Clusters

Chapter 8: Operating and Managing a Ceph Cluster

Chapter 9: Ceph under the Hood

Chapter 10: Production Planning and Performance Tuning for Ceph

Chapter 11: The Virtual Storage Manager for Ceph

Chapter 12: More on Ceph

Chapter 13: An Introduction to Troubleshooting Ceph

Chapter 14: Upgrading Your Ceph Cluster from Hammer to Jewel

About the Authors

Vikhyat Umrao has 9 years of experience with distributed storage products as a sustenance engineer and in the last couple of years, he has been working on software-defined storage technology, with specific expertise in Ceph Unified Storage.

He has been working on Ceph for over 3 years now and in his current position at Red Hat, he focuses on the support and development of Ceph to solve Red Hat Ceph storage customer issues and upstream reported issues. He is based in the Greater Boston area, where he is a principal software maintenance engineer for Red Hat Ceph Storage. Vikhyat lives with his wife, Pratima, and he likes to explore new places.

Michael Hackett is a storage and SAN expert in customer support. He has been working on Ceph and storage-related products for over 12 years. Apart from this, he holds several storage and SAN-based certifications, and prides himself on his ability to troubleshoot and adapt to new complex issues. Michael is currently working at Red Hat, based in Massachusetts, where he is a principal software maintenance engineer for Red Hat Ceph and the technical product lead for the global Ceph team.

Michael is currently working at Red Hat, based in Massachusetts, where he is a principal software maintenance engineer for Red Hat Ceph and the technical product lead for the global Ceph team.

Karan Singh devotes a part of his time in learning emerging technologies and enjoys the challenges that come with it. He loves tech writing and is an avid blogger. He also authored the first edition of Learning Ceph and Ceph Cookbook, Packt Publishing. You can reach him on Twitter at @karansingh010.