CL260 Cloud Storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage

Date/Time
November 4, 2024 - November 8, 2024
09:00 - 17:00

Note: Until further notice this course will be delivered in Red Hat Virtual Training Environment – remotely based online training. More info on Red Hat Virtual Training can be found here: link

Cloud Storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage (CL260) is designed for storage administrators and cloud operators who deploy Red Hat Ceph Storage in a production data center environment or as a component of a Red Hat OpenStack Platform infrastructure. Learn how to deploy, manage, and scale a Ceph storage cluster to provide hybrid storage resources, including Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift-compatible object storage, Ceph-native and iSCSI-based block storage, and shared file storage.

This course is based on Red Hat Ceph Storage version 5.0.

Course overview

Cloud Storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage (CL260) is designed for storage administrators and cloud operators who deploy Red Hat Ceph Storage in a production data center environment or as a component of a Red Hat OpenStack Platform infrastructure.

Content summary

• Deploy and manage a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster on commodity servers using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Create, expand, and control access to storage pools provided by the Ceph cluster.
• Access Red Hat Ceph Storage from clients using object, block, and file-based methods.
• Analyze and tune Red Hat Ceph Storage performance.
• Integrate Red Hat OpenStack Platform image, object, block, and file storage with a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

Audience for this course

This course is geared toward Windows system administrators, network administrators, and other system administrators who are interested in supplementing current skills or backstopping other team members, in addition to Linux system administrators who are responsible for these tasks:

• This course is intended for storage administrators and cloud operators who want to learn how to deploy and manage Red Hat Ceph Storage for use by servers in an enterprise data center or within a Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment.
• Developers writing applications who use cloud-based storage will learn the distinctions of various storage types and client access methods.

Prerequisites for this course

• Knowledge in Linux server administration and Linux command line.
• Fundamental storage knowledge.
• RHCSA Red Hat Certified System Administrator certification or the equivalent experience with Linux.
• Confirmation of the required knowledge can be obtained by passing the online skills assessment.

Outline for this course

• Introducing Red Hat Ceph Storage architecture.
• Deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage.
• Configuring a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
• Managing object storage cluster components.
• Managing the storage maps.
• Providing block storage with RBD.
• Providing object storage with RGW.
• Providing file storage with CephFS.
• Managing a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
• Tuning and troubleshooting Red Hat Ceph Storage.
• Managing Red Hat OpenStack Platform storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage.
• Comprehensive review.

Recommended next exam or course

• CL110 Red Hat OpenStack Administration I: Core Operations for Domain Operators
• CL210 Red Hat OpenStack Administration II: Day 2 Operations for Cloud Operators
• DO280 Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster