OpenStack Storage: CEPH Hands-On-Lab

Ever wondered how big companies scale their storage? You have a lot of data but no idea how to use it efficiently with OpenStack? We're here to tell you the secret. IBM chose Ceph as the software defined storage stack for its hosted managed private cloud offering: IBM Cloud OpenStack Services. For both the service and this three-hour long Hands-on Lab, SoftLayer provides the awesome infrastructure.

Introduction to Ceph [1 hour]

• Why yet another one?
• Design and architecture
• Use cases

Hands-on Lab [2 hours]

• Installing and configuring a Ceph cluster
• Setting up OpenStack (nova, glance, cinder) to use the cluster
• Scale out the cluster by adding new storage nodes

What you need:

• A laptop with working network connection and an SSH client

Speakers:
Mark Korondi, Zoltan Arnold Nagy, Csaba Balazs

Duration: 3hrs
Location: TBD soon