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Mastering Ceph, Second Edition, published by Packt

Mastering Ceph - Second Edition

This is the code repository for Mastering Ceph - Second Edition, published by Packt.

Infrastructure storage solutions with the latest Ceph release

What is this book about?

Ceph is an open source distributed storage system that is scalable to Exabyte deployments. The Second edition of Mastering Ceph guides you through the journey to become an expert on ceph.

This book covers the following exciting features: Plan, design and deploy a Ceph cluster Get well versed with different features and storage methods Carry out regular maintenance and daily operations with ease Tune Ceph for best ROI and performance Recover Ceph from several issues

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
nodes.each do |node|
config.vm.define node[:hostname] do |nodeconfig|
nodeconfig.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-16.04" 

Following is what you need for this book: If you are a storage professional, system administrator, or cloud engineer looking for guidance on building powerful storage solutions for your cloud and on-premise infrastructure, this book is for you.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-12).

Software and Hardware List

Chapter	Software required	OS required
All	VirtualBox	Any
All	Vagrant	Any
All	Ceph	Linux

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

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• Practical DevOps - Second Edition [Packt] [Amazon]

Get to Know the Author

Nick Fisk is an IT specialist with a strong history in enterprise storage. Having worked in a variety of roles throughout his career, he has encountered a wide variety of technologies. In 2012, Nick was given the opportunity to focus more on open source technologies, and this is where he got his first exposure to Ceph. Having seen the potential of Ceph as a storage platform and the benefits of moving away from the traditional closed stack storage platforms, Nick pursued Ceph with keen interest. Throughout the following years, his experience with Ceph increased with the deployment of several clusters and enabled him to spend time in the Ceph community, helping others and improving certain areas of Ceph.

Other books by the authors

Mastering Ceph

Ceph: Designing and Implementing Scalable Storage Systems

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mastering-ceph-second-edition's Issues

Valgrantfile from cap02 dont work

Hi!
valgrantfile from cap02 dont work and failed with message que osd file already exists.
I tried it com bento/ubuntu-16.04 and bento/ubuntu-20.04.

I used:
linux host ubuntu 20.04
virtual-box v6.1.10
vagrant v2.2.6

Thanks in Advance,
Best wishes, Dani.

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A customization command failed:

["createhd", "--filename", "disk_osd-osd1", "--size", "10000"]

The following error was experienced:

#<Vagrant::Errors::VBoxManageError: There was an error while executing VBoxManage, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: ["createhd", "--filename", "disk_osd-osd1", "--size", "10000"]

Stderr: 0%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR
VBoxManage: error: Failed to create medium
VBoxManage: error: Could not create the medium storage unit '/home/hds/soli/ceph-ansible/disk_osd-osd1.vdi'.
VBoxManage: error: VDI: cannot create image '/home/hds/soli/ceph-ansible/disk_osd-osd1.vdi' (VERR_ALREADY_EXISTS)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium
VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleCreateMedium(HandlerArg*)" at line 510 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

Please fix this customization and try again.