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Learning Ceph

You're reading from   Learning Ceph Unifed, scalable, and reliable open source storage solution

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787127913
Length 340 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Bryan Stillwell Bryan Stillwell
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Karan Singh Karan Singh
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Introducing Ceph Storage FREE CHAPTER 2. Ceph Components and Services 3. Hardware and Network Selection 4. Planning Your Deployment 5. Deploying a Virtual Sandbox Cluster 6. Operations and Maintenance 7. Monitoring Ceph 8. Ceph Architecture: Under the Hood 9. Storage Provisioning with Ceph 10. Integrating Ceph with OpenStack 11. Performance and Stability Tuning

Introduction to OpenStack


OpenStack is an open source platform for multitenant-capable private or public cloud deployments, providing components to build a flexible and scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. As free open source software, OpenStack offers a rich suite of capabilities without vendor lock-in or expensive licensing. OpenStack is governed by the non-profit OpenStack Foundation and backed by prominent companies including Red Hat, Mirantis, Dell, Cisco, IBM, and Rackspace. There are also myriad individual contributors.

OpenStack's components are too numerous to list in full, so here we'll concentrate on those that leverage Ceph most prominently. Here's a diagram showing how these interact with Ceph.

Nova

Nova is the heart of OpenStack: it creates and manages virtual machine instances usually leveraging QEMU/KVM but other guest virtualization technologies are also available via the libvirt system including Xen, Hyper-V, VMware, and even bare metal. Nova assorts instances...

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