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You're reading from Ceph Cookbook Practical recipes to design, implement, operate, and manage Ceph storage systems

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788391061

Length 466 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Ceph

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Vikhyat Umrao

Michael Hackett

Karan Singh

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Ceph – Introduction and Beyond

2. Working with Ceph Block Device FREE CHAPTER

3. Working with Ceph and OpenStack

4. Working with Ceph Object Storage

5. Working with Ceph Object Storage Multi-Site v2

6. Working with the Ceph Filesystem

7. Monitoring Ceph Clusters

8. Operating and Managing a Ceph Cluster

9. Ceph under the Hood

10. Production Planning and Performance Tuning for Ceph

11. The Virtual Storage Manager for Ceph

12. More on Ceph

13. An Introduction to Troubleshooting Ceph

14. Upgrading Your Ceph Cluster from Hammer to Jewel

Understanding the Ceph Filesystem and MDS

The Ceph Filesystem offers the POSIX-compliant distributed filesystem of any size that uses Ceph RADOS to store its data. To implement the Ceph Filesystem, you need a running Ceph storage cluster and at least one Ceph Metadata Server (MDS) to manage its metadata and keep it separated from data, which helps in reducing complexity and improves reliability. The following diagram depicts the architectural view of Ceph FS and its interfaces:

The libcephfs libraries play an important role in supporting its multiple client implementations. It has the native Linux kernel driver support, and thus clients can use native filesystem mounting, for example, using the mount command. It has tight integration with SAMBA and support for CIFS and SMB. Ceph FS extends its support to Filesystem in USErspace (FUSE) using cephfuse modules. It also allows...

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Authors (3)

Umrao

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.

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Hackett

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 lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Nicole, his two sons, and their dog. He is an avid sports fan and enjoys time with his family.

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Karan Singh

Karan is an IT expert and passionate tech enthusiast living with his beautiful wife Monika in Finland. He holds Honours degree in Bachelor of Computer Science and a Master degree in System Engineering from BITS, Pilani. Apart from this, he is a certified professional for technologies like OpenStack, NetApp and Oracle Solaris. Karan is currently working as a System Specialist of Storage and Cloud Platform for CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. focusing all his energies on providing IaaS cloud solutions based on OpenStack and Ceph and building economic multi-petabyte storage system using Ceph. Karan possesses a rich skill set and working experience of a variety of cloud technologies. He devotes a part of his time to R&D and learning technologies. He is also the author of the very first book on Ceph titled Learning Ceph, published in 2014. Karan possesses extensive system administration skills and has excellent working experience on a variety of Unix environments, backup, enterprise storage systems, and cloud platforms. When not working on Ceph and OpenStack, Karan can be found working with Configuration management, containers and devops related tools. He loves writing about technologies and is an avid blogger. You can reach him on Twitter.

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