Chapter 8. Production Planning and Performance Tuning for Ceph

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • The dynamics of capacity, performance, and cost
  • Choosing the hardware and software components for Ceph
  • Ceph recommendation and performance tuning
  • Ceph erasure coding
  • Creating an erasure coded pool
  • Ceph cache tiering
  • Creating a pool for cache tiering
  • Creating a cache tier
  • Configuring a cache tier
  • Testing a cache tier

Introduction

In this chapter, we will learn some very interesting concepts with regard to Ceph. It includes the Hardware/Software recommendation, performance tuning for Ceph components (that is, Ceph MON, OSD), and clients including the OS tuning. Finally, we will understand the Ceph erasure coding and cache tiering, covering different ...

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