IBM Storage Ceph Advanced

This Advanced course helps IT professionals, system administrators, and solution architects master the Advanced management and optimization of IBM Storage Ceph (formerly Red Hat Ceph), such as Complex architectures and Performance optimization. It can be delivered using either the open-source Ceph on Rocky Linux or Ubuntu, or the supported IBM Storage Ceph with enterprise-grade support, SLA, and tools like IBM Storage Insights — giving participants flexibility to match their project needs.

This course is for IT professionals, system administrators, and solution architects who want to master the most advanced CEPH techniques.

Completion of the basic IBM Storage Ceph course or equivalent experience in CEPH cluster administration is required.

Develop advanced competencies to design, implement and maintain enterprise-level CEPH infrastructures.

• Complex Architectures: Design and deployment of advanced CEPH infrastructures for critical environments.
• Advanced Monitoring: Performance optimization and deep observability of complex clusters.
• Enterprise Security: Implementation of best practices and compliance for critical data.
• Automation: Automated management and preventive monitoring of infrastructures.
• Zero-Downtime: Updates and maintenance without service interruptions.
• Multi-Site Strategies: RBD mirroring, RGW multisite and disaster recovery plans.

Designed for professionals looking to master the most advanced CEPH techniques. Adaptable to your team's needs.

• Day 1: Advanced fundamentals and optimization.
  • BlueStore Internals & Tuning: Advanced optimization of the storage engine, live migration and automatic parameter configuration. (FileStore Migration, Autotune)
  • Performance & Observability: Advanced monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, benchmarking and real-time metric analysis. (FIO Benchmarking, Dashboards)
  • Advanced CRUSH + PG Planning: Design of complex CRUSH maps, Erasure Coding and strategic placement group planning. (EC 4+2, High Availability)
  • Intensive Troubleshooting: Advanced diagnosis of critical issues, resolution of "peering incomplete" states and data recovery. (Crisis Resolution, Recovery Tools)
• Day 2: Integration and enterprise strategies.
  • RGW Multisite: Multi-site Object Gateway configuration for geo-resilience and S3 replication. (Realms, Zones)
  • RBD Mirroring & DR: Block mirroring and disaster recovery strategies with near-zero RPO. (Failover, Disaster Recovery)
  • Scalable CephFS: Distributed file system with multiple active MDS and metadata balancing. (Multi-MDS, Pinning)
  • Security & Compliance: End-to-end security implementation with advanced CephX and TLS encryption. (CephX, TLS)
  • Automation: Rolling upgrades without downtime using cephadm and automated orchestration. (Cephadm, Zero-DT)
  • Cloud Integrations: Connecting Ceph with cloud ecosystems. (Kubernetes, Openshift)