Red Hat Ceph Storage Architecture and Administration

Course Code: 2645

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Overview

This course is designed as a part of the emerging technology series of courses from Red Hat. In this course, participants learn how to deploy software-defined storage system on commodity hardware, permitting distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant object, block, and file data storage. The course equips the participants with the required knowledge and skills for explaining the architecture of a Ceph cluster. The course also covers how to provide servers with storage from the Ceph cluster using block, object, and file-based access methods.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 4 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 4 days

What You'll learn

Deploying and managing a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster on commodity servers using Ansible
Creating, expanding, and controlling access to storage pools provided by the Ceph cluster
Accessing Red Hat Ceph Storage from clients using object, block, and file-based methods
Analyzing and tuning Red Hat Ceph Storage performance
Integrating OpenStack image, object, block, and file storage with a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster

Outline

Module 1: Prepare for Red Hat Ceph Storage

Identify challenges faced by traditional storage and explain how Ceph addresses them

Module 2: Deploy Red Hat Ceph Storage

Deploy and expand the storage capacity of a new Red Hat Ceph Storage Cluster

Module 3: Configure Red Hat Ceph Storage

Manage how Ceph stores data with pools
Configure Red Hat Ceph Storage using its configuration file
Configure users for Ceph clients that may access the Ceph storage cluster

Module 4: Provide block storage with RBD

Configure Ceph to provide block storage for clients by using RADOS block devices (RBDs)

Module 5: Provide object storage with RADOSGW

Configure Ceph to provide object storage for clients by using a RADOS gateway (RADOSGW or RGW)

Module 6: Provide file storage with CephFS

Configure Ceph to provide file storage for clients using the Ceph Filesystem (CephFS)

Module 7: Configure the CRUSH map

Adjust the CRUSH map, which controls how data is stored, replicated, and distributed across OSDs in the Ceph cluster, in order to optimize resiliency and performance

Module 8: Manage and update the cluster maps

Explain how the monitor and OSD maps are managed in order to maintain cluster operation, quorum, and consistency

Module 9: Manage a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster

Check Ceph cluster status
Troubleshoot Ceph daemon problems
Upgrade Ceph software

Module 10: Tune and troubleshoot Red Hat Ceph Storage

Identify the key performance metrics for a Ceph cluster
Use the KPIs to help tune and troubleshoot the operating system and Ceph software for optimal performance

Module 11: Integrate Red Hat Ceph Storage with OpenStack

Configure an OpenStack cloud to use Ceph to provide image, block, object, and file storage

Prerequisites

To attend this course, participants need to hold the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification, or demonstrate equivalent experience. Some experience with storage administration is recommended, though not required.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for professionals who want to learn how to deploy and manage Red Hat Ceph Storage for use by servers in an enterprise data center or within a Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment.

This course is highly recommended for: