Chapter 10. Deploying Ceph

This chapter covers

  • Preparing servers for Ceph deployment
  • Deploying Ceph using the ceph-deploy tool
  • Basic Ceph operations

Ceph (http://ceph.com) is an open source storage platform based on RADOS (http://ceph.com/papers/weil-rados-pdsw07.pdf) that can be used to provide block-, file-, and object-level storage services using commodity servers. Ceph works in a distributed architecture with the goal of eliminating single points of failure by replicating both user and cluster management data. So why is a chapter about Ceph included in an OpenStack book? Based on OpenStack community user surveys, Ceph is the most popular choice for OpenStack storage.[1] In chapter 7 you configured Cinder to use LVM to manage volume ...

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