January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
606 pages
15h 1m
English
We discuss Ceph Monitors (also known as MONs or mons) in other chapters in detail, but we'll describe them a bit here as well for context. Ceph MONs maintain and serves a wealth of information about cluster topology and status. In this way they are a clearinghouse of sorts, accepting connections and updates from other Ceph daemons including other MONs, OSDs, and MDS instances.
Ceph MONs operate as a cluster, exploiting the Paxos consensus algorithm to ensure reliable and consistent operation as a quorum. The vital information collected and distributed by MONs includes:
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