Red Hat Ceph Storage for OpenStack

Build, expand and maintain cloud-scale, clustered storage for your applications with Red Hat Ceph Storage Cloud Storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage (CL260) is designed for storage administrators and cloud operators who deploy Red Hat Ceph Storage in a production data center environment or as a component of a Red Hat OpenStack Platform or OpenShift Container Platform infrastructure. Learn how to deploy, manage, and scale a Ceph storage cluster to provide hybrid storage resources, including Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift-compatible object storage, Ceph-native and iSCSI-based block storage, and shared file storage. This course is based on Red Hat Ceph Storage version 5.

Who Can Benefit

• This course is intended for storage administrators and cloud operators 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.
• Developers writing applications who use cloud-based storage will learn the distinctions of various storage types and client access methods.

Skills Gained

• Course content summary
• Deploy and manage a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster on commodity servers.
• Perform common management operations using the web-based management interface.
• Create, expand, and control access to storage pools provided by the Ceph cluster.
• Access Red Hat Ceph Storage from clients using object, block, and file-based methods.
• Analyze and tune Red Hat Ceph Storage performance.
• Integrate Red Hat OpenStack Platform image, object, block, and file storage with a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
• Integrate OpenShift Container Platform with a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

Prerequisites

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation certification, or equivalent experience.
• For candidates that have not earned an RHCE or equivalent, confirmation of the correct skill set knowledge can be obtained by passing the online skills assessment at http://www.redhat.com/training/skills_assessment/
• Some experience with storage administration is recommended but not required.

Course Content

Course Outline

• Introducing Red Hat Ceph Storage architecture
• Deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage
• Configuring a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster
• Creating object storage cluster components
• Creating and customizing storage maps
• Providing block storage using RADOS Block Devices
• Providing object storage using a RADOS Gateway
• Providing file storage with CephFS
• Managing a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster
• Tuning and troubleshooting Red Hat Ceph Storage
• Managing Cloud Platforms with Red Hat Ceph Storage
• Comprehensive review