In this chapter, you will learn about BlueStore, the new object store in Ceph designed to replace the existing filestore. Its increased performance and enhanced feature set are designed to allow Ceph to continue to grow and provide a resilient high-performance distributed storage system for the future.
You will learn the following topics:
- What is BlueStore?
- The limitations with filestore
- What problems BlueStore overcomes
- The components of BlueStore and how it works
- How to deploy BlueStore OSDs