Part III Installation of Additional Services #

After you deploy your SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 cluster you may need to install additional software for accessing your data, such as the Object Gateway or the iSCSI Gateway, or you can deploy a clustered file system on top of the Ceph cluster. This chapter mainly focuses on manual installation. If y…

Ceph Object Gateway is an object storage interface built on top of librgw to provide applications with a RESTful gateway to Ceph clusters. It supports two interfaces:

iSCSI is a storage area network (SAN) protocol that allows clients (called initiators) to send SCSI commands to SCSI storage devices (targets) on remote servers. SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 includes a facility that opens Ceph storage management to heterogeneous clients, such as Microsoft Windows* and …

The Ceph file system (CephFS) is a POSIX-compliant file system that uses a Ceph storage cluster to store its data. CephFS uses the same cluster system as Ceph block devices, Ceph object storage with its S3 and Swift APIs, or native bindings (librados).

NFS Ganesha provides NFS access to either the Object Gateway or the CephFS. In SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, NFS versions 3 and 4 are supported. NFS Ganesha runs in the user space instead of the kernel space and directly interacts with the Object Gateway or CephFS.