In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Disk performance baseline
• Baseline network performance
• Ceph rados bench
• RADOS load-gen
• Benchmarking the Ceph Block Device
• Benchmarking Ceph RBD using FIO
• Ceph admin socket
• Using the ceph tell command
• Ceph REST API
• Profiling Ceph memory
• The ceph-objectstore-tool
• Using ceph-medic
• Deploying the experimental Ceph BlueStore