To Get the Most out of This Book

This book requires that you have enough resources to run the whole Ceph lab environment. The minimum hardware or virtual requirements are as follows:

• CPU: 2 cores
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Disk space: 40 GB

The various software components required to follow the instructions in the chapters are as follows:

• VirtualBox 4.0 or higher (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)

• GIT (http://www.git-scm.com/downloads)

• Vagrant 1.5.0 or higher (https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)

• CentOS operating system 7.0 or higher (http://wiki.centos.org/Download)

• Ceph software Jewel packages Version 10.2.0 or higher (http://ceph.com/resources/downloads/)

• S3 Client, typically S3cmd (http://s3tools.org/download)

• Python-swift client

• NFS Ganesha

• Ceph Fuse

• CephMetrics (https://github.com/ceph/cephmetrics

• Ceph-Medic (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-medic)

• Virtual Storage Manager 2.0 or higher (https://github.com/01org/virtual-storagemanager/releases/tag/v2.1.0)

• Ceph-Ansible (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible)

• OpenStack RDO (http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/rdo-release.rpm)