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Make some improvements to the basic text of the Beginner's Guide. Co-authored-by: Anthony D'Atri <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Zac Dover <[email protected]>
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then just think of Ceph as a computer program that stores data and uses a
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network to make sure that there is a backup copy of the data.
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Storage Interfaces
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Ceph offers several "storage interfaces", which is another
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way of saying "ways of storing data". These storage interfaces include:
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- CephFS (a file system)
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Deep down, though, all three of these are really RADOS object stores. CephFS
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and RBD are just presenting themselves as file systems and block devices.
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Storage Manager: What is It?
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Ceph is a clustered and distributed storage manager that offers data
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redundancy. This sentence might be too cryptic for first-time readers of the
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Ceph Beginner's Guide, so let's explain all of the terms in it:
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- **Storage Manager.** Ceph is a storage manager. This means that Ceph is
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software that helps storage resources store data. Storage resources come in
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several forms: hard disk drives (HDD), solid-state drives (SSD), magnetic
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tape, floppy disks, punched tape, Hoellerith-style punch cards, and magnetic
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tape, floppy disks, punched tape, Hollerith-style punch cards, and magnetic
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drum memory are all forms of storage resources. In this beginner's guide,
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we'll focus on hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state drives (SSD).
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- **Clustered storage manager** Ceph is a clustered storage manager. That means
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that the storage manager installed not just on a single machine but on
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- **Clustered storage manager.** Ceph is a clustered storage manager. That
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means that the storage manager installed not just on a single machine but on
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several machines that work together as a system.
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- **Distributed storage manager.** Ceph is a clustered and distributed storage
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manager. That means that the data that is stored and the infrastructure that

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