January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
606 pages
15h 1m
English
The tiering functionality in Ceph allows you to overlay one RADOS pool over another and let Ceph intelligently promote and evict objects between them. In most configurations, the top-level pool will be comprised of fast storage devices like Solid State Drives (SSDs) and the base pool will be comprised of the slower storage devices like Serial ATA (SATA) or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disks. If the working set of your data is of a comparatively small percentage, then this allows you to use Ceph to provide high capacity storage but yet still maintain a good level of performance of frequently accessed data.
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