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Brief Summary:
Added Modules and Lab Sections of Aptira's Existing
OpenStack Training Docs. Please do refer Full Summary
for more details.
For those who want to review this and save some time on
building it, I have hosted the content on
http://office.aptira.in
Please talk to Sean Robetrs if you are concerened about
repetition of Doc Content or similar issues like short URLs
etc., this is supposed to be a rough patch and not final.
Full Summary:
Added the following modules.
1. Module001 - Introduction To OpenStack.
- Brief Overview of OpenStack.
- Basic Concepts
- Detailed Description of Core
Projects (Grizzly) under OpenStack.
- All But Networking and Swift.
2. Module002 - OpenStack Networking In detail.
3. Module003 - OpenStack Object Storage In detail.
4. Lab001 - OpenStack Control Node and Compute Node.
5. Lab002 - OpenStack Network Node.
Full Summary added due to the size of the commit. I Apologize
for the size of this commit and will try not to commit huge
content like in this patch. The reason for the size of this
commit is to meet OpenStack Training Sprint day.
bp/training-manuals
Change-Id: Ie3c44527992868b4d9571b66cc1c048e558ec669
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="module003-ch001-intro-objectstore">
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<title>Introduction to Object Storage</title>
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<para>OpenStack Object Storage (code-named Swift) is open source
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software for creating redundant, scalable data storage using
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clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes of
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accessible data. It is a long-term storage system for large
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amounts of static data that can be retrieved, leveraged, and
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updated. Object Storage uses a distributed architecture with
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no central point of control, providing greater scalability,
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redundancy and permanence. Objects are written to multiple
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hardware devices, with the OpenStack software responsible for
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ensuring data replication and integrity across the cluster.
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Storage clusters scale horizontally by adding new nodes.
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Should a node fail, OpenStack works to replicate its content
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from other active nodes. Because OpenStack uses software logic
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to ensure data replication and distribution across different
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devices, inexpensive commodity hard drives and servers can be
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used in lieu of more expensive equipment.</para>
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<para>Object Storage is ideal for cost effective, scale-out
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storage. It provides a fully distributed, API-accessible
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storage platform that can be integrated directly into
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applications or used for backup, archiving and data retention.
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Block Storage allows block devices to be exposed and connected
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to compute instances for expanded storage, better performance
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and integration with enterprise storage platforms, such as
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NetApp, Nexenta and SolidFire.</para>
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</chapter> |