Ceph Storage Essentials

Course Description

CEPH is an open-source distributed and fault tolerant storage system widely used in cloud environments like in Openstack.

Participants of this training will learn about the main concept and architecture of Ceph, its installation and daily operation as well as using it in Openstack environments.

Besides in-depth theoretical coverage students also do hands-on exercises in their own Openstack + CEPH lab system.

Training Objectives

At the end of the training participants:

• Understand the main concepts and architecture of Ceph, its node types, cluster maps and object placement logic.
• Install a Ceph cluster and perform its daily operation.
• Monitor the Ceph cluster, manage pools, configure Ceph, customize the CRUSH map and add or remove OSDs following best practices.
• Work with the Ceph Block Device and RBD snapshots, the Ceph object gateway and the Ceph File System.
• Integrate Ceph with OpenStack and use it as the storage backend of the Glance, Cinder and Nova services.

Target Audience

System administrators, developers and Devops who want to understand and use Ceph in Openstack environments

Prerequisites

Linux system administration, networking and storage knowledge