This book requires that you have enough resources to run the whole Ceph lab environment. The minimum hardware or virtual requirements are as follows:

• CPU: 2 cores
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Disk space: 40 GB

The various software components required to follow the instructions in the chapters are as follows:

• VirtualBox 4.0 or higher (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)

• GIT (http://www.git-scm.com/downloads)

• Vagrant 1.5.0 or higher (https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)

• CentOS operating system 7.0 or higher (http://wiki.centos.org/Download)

• Ceph software Jewel packages Version 10.2.0 or higher (http://ceph.com/resources/downloads/)

• S3 Client, typically S3cmd (http://s3tools.org/download)

• Python-swift client

• NFS Ganesha

• Ceph Fuse

• CephMetrics (https://github.com/ceph/cephmetrics

• Ceph-Medic (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-medic)

• Virtual Storage Manager 2.0 or higher (https://github.com/01org/virtual-storagemanager/releases/tag/v2.1.0)

• Ceph-Ansible (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible)

• OpenStack RDO (http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/rdo-release.rpm)