Chapter 2. Working with Ceph Block Device

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Working with Ceph Block Device
• Configuring Ceph client
• Creating Ceph Block Device
• Mapping Ceph Block Device
• Ceph RBD resizing
• Working with RBD snapshots
• Working with RBD clones
• A quick look at OpenStack
• Ceph – the best match for OpenStack
• Setting up OpenStack
• Configuring OpenStack as Ceph clients
• Configuring Glance for Ceph backend
• Configuring Cinder for Ceph backend
• Configuring Nova to attach Ceph RBD
• Configuring Nova to boot instances from Ceph RBD