Chapter 1. Ceph – Introduction and Beyond
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Ceph – the beginning of a new era
- RAID – the end of an era
- Ceph – the architectural overview
- Planning the Ceph deployment
- Setting up a virtual infrastructure
- Installing and configuring Ceph
- Scaling up your Ceph cluster
- Using Ceph clusters with a hands-on approach
Introduction
Ceph is currently the hottest Software Defined Storage (SDS) technology that is shaking up the entire storage industry. It is an open source project that provides unified software defined solutions for Block, File, and Object storage. The core idea of Ceph is to provide a distributed storage system that is massively scalable and high performing with no single point of failure. From the
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