Chapter 6. Operating and Managing a Ceph Cluster

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Understanding Ceph service management
  • Managing the cluster configuration file
  • Running Ceph with SYSVINIT
  • Running Ceph as a service
  • Scale-up versus scale-out
  • Scaling out your Ceph cluster
  • Scaling down your Ceph cluster
  • Replacing a failed disk in the Ceph cluster
  • Upgrading your Ceph cluster
  • Maintaining a Ceph cluster

Introduction

At this point, I'm sure you are pretty confident in Ceph cluster deployment, provisioning, as well as monitoring. In this chapter, we will cover standard topics such as Ceph service management. We will also cover advanced topics such as scaling up your cluster by adding OSD and MON nodes, and finally, upgrading the Ceph cluster followed ...

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