Chapter 2. Working with Ceph Block Device

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Working with Ceph Block Device
  • Configuring Ceph client
  • Creating Ceph Block Device
  • Mapping Ceph Block Device
  • Ceph RBD resizing
  • Working with RBD snapshots
  • Working with RBD clones
  • A quick look at OpenStack
  • Ceph – the best match for OpenStack
  • Setting up OpenStack
  • Configuring OpenStack as Ceph clients
  • Configuring Glance for Ceph backend
  • Configuring Cinder for Ceph backend
  • Configuring Nova to attach Ceph RBD
  • Configuring Nova to boot instances from Ceph RBD

Introduction

Once you have installed and configured your Ceph storage cluster, the next task is performing storage provisioning. Storage provisioning is the process of assigning storage space or capacity to physical or ...

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