2011-09-21 18:55:37 +00:00
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Getting Started
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.. todo:: write about vstart, somewhere
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2011-09-21 20:43:32 +00:00
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The Ceph Storage System consists of multiple components, and can be
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used in multiple ways. To guide you through it, please pick an aspect
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of Ceph that is most interesting to you:
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- :doc:`Object storage <object>`: read and write objects,
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flexible-sized data containers that have both data (a sequence of
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bytes) and metadata (mapping from keys to values), either via a
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:doc:`library interface </api/index>`, or via an :ref:`HTTP API
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<radosgw>`.
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*Example*: an asset management system
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- :doc:`Block storage <block>`: use a remote data store as if it was a
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local hard disk, for example for virtual machine disk storage, for
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high-availability, etc.
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*Example*: virtual machine system with live migration
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- :doc:`Distributed filesystem <filesystem>`: access the data store as
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a network filesystem, with strict POSIX semantics such as locking.
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*Example*: organization with hundreds of Linux servers with active
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users accessing them remotely
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.. todo:: should the api mention above link to librados or libradospp
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directly? which one?
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.. todo:: fs example could be thin clients, HPC, typical university
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setting, what to pick?
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.. toctree::
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:hidden:
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object
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block
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filesystem
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