My Ceph tutorial from LinuxCon Europe 2012. Presented in Barcelona in November of 2012, this is a dense summary of the features of the Ceph distributed storage stack.

This tutorial gives an overview of

• Native RADOS object storage,
• The RBD block device,
• ReSTful object storage with radosgw,
• the Ceph distributed …

Early next month, I'll be off to Barcelona for speaking at LinuxCon Europe. Here's an overview of my talks.

November 5-7, the Linux Foundation is holding the annual LinuxCon Europe in one of Europe's most beautiful cities — some say the most beautiful — Barcelona. I will be attending the full conference …

Ceph allows you to replace existing SAN storage (or SAN drop-in substitutes) with a flexible storage solution with real scale-out capabilities. Here is how you migrate existing virtual machines managed by libvirt from block-based storage to a Ceph based storage solution.

Prerequisites

What you'll need in order to successfully manage …

Next week, I will be speaking at the inaugural CloudOpen conference in San Diego. This is your chance to learn about OpenStack high availability and Ceph!

August 29-31, San Diego hosts the first CloudOpen conference, colocated with LinuxCon North America. CloudOpen is the Linux Foundation's brand new, stack-agnostic cloud …

If you've heard of Ceph, you've surely heard of radosgw, a RESTful gateway interface to the RADOS object store. You've probably also heard that it provides a front-end interface that is compatible with Amazon's S3 API.

The question remains, if you have an S3 client that always assumes it can …