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Cloud Storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage with (EX260) exam (Bundle)

  • Course Code CL261
  • Duration 5 days

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Build, expand and maintain cloud-scale, clustered storage for your applications with Red Hat Ceph Storage

Cloud Storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage with exam (CL261) 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 or OpenShift Container Platform infrastructure.

Reliable and performant data storage is a critical component for enterprise application and infrastructure solutions. Software-defined storage offers organizations the flexibility to grow their data storage requirements while enabling applications to operate at cloud-scale.

Red Hat Ceph Storage leverages commodity hardware to create distributed and scalable storage volumes that are both fault-tolerant and provide access via object, block, and file data levels. Successful planning, deployment and operation of a storage cluster can be achieved through completion of Cloud Storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage course.

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 package (course + exam) is based on Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.0 and includes an exam voucher.

Note :  Starting January 2026 this bundle (Course + Exam) only exists in CR (classroom) if scheduled or Closed course modalities.
If you are targeting a virtual class, please consider CL260LS the new RHLS-course subscription which includes as well an exam voucher.

Updated Jan2026

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Target Audience

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  • 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.

 

Course Objectives

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After this course participants should be able to:

  • Deploy and manage a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster on commodity servers.
  • Perform common management operations using the web-based management interface.
  • 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.
  • Integrate OpenShift Container Platform with a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

Course Content

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Introducing Red Hat Ceph Storage Architecture
Describe Red Hat Ceph Storage architecture, including data organization, distribution and client access methods.

Deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage
Deploy a new Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster and expand the cluster capacity.

Configuring a Red Hat Ceph Storage Cluster
Manage the Red Hat Ceph Storage configuration, including the primary settings, the use of monitors, and the cluster network layout.

Creating Object Storage Cluster Components
Create and manage the components that comprise the object storage cluster, including OSDs, pools, and the cluster authorization method.

Creating and Customizing Storage Maps
Manage and adjust the CRUSH and OSD maps to optimize data placement to meet the performance and redundancy requirements of cloud applications.

Providing Block Storage Using RADOS Block Devices
Configure Red Hat Ceph Storage to provide block storage for clients by using RADOS block devices (RBDs).

Providing Object Storage Using a RADOS Gateway
Configure Red Hat Ceph Storage to provide object storage for clients by using a RADOS Gateway (RGW).

Providing File Storage Using CephFS
Configure Red Hat Ceph Storage to provide file storage for clients using the Ceph File System (CephFS).

Managing a Red Hat Ceph Storage Cluster
Manage an operational Ceph cluster using tools to check status, monitor services, and properly start and stop all or part of the cluster.  Perform cluster maintenance by replacing or repairing cluster components, including MONs, OSDs, and PGs.

Tuning and Troubleshooting Red Hat Ceph Storage
Identify the key Ceph cluster performance metrics and use them to tune and troubleshoot Ceph operations for optimal performance.

Managing Cloud Platforms with Red Hat Ceph Storage
Manage Red Hat cloud infrastructure to use Red Hat Ceph Storage to provide image, block, volume, object, and shared file storage.

Comprehensive review
Review tasks from Cloud Storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage.

Course Prerequisites

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  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification, or equivalent experience.
  • Some experience with storage administration is recommended but not required.

For candidates that have not earned an RHCSA or equivalent, confirmation of the correct skill set knowledge can be obtained by taking the Red Hat free online skills assessment Red Hat Skills Assessment

 

Test Certification

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  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Cloud Storage With Red Hat Ceph Storage exam (EX260) - exam voucher included

Follow on Courses

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Further Information

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  • .Official course book provided to participants.