•    Install Red Hat Ceph Storage Server on both physical and virtual systems    
•    Be familiar with the Ansible installation files for Ceph
•    Be able to install a Ceph Storage Server using Ansible

•    Be able to change a Ceph Storage Server configuration
•    Add monitor (MON) nodes and object storage device (OSD) nodes

•    Configure a replicated storage pool
•    Store objects in storage pool
•    Store objects within a namespace within a storage pool
•    Create and configure erasure-coded pools
•    Create an erasure-coded pool profile with specified parameters
•    Upload a file to an erasure-coded pool
•    Change default settings in the Ceph configuration files
•    Manage Ceph authentication
•    Create a Ceph client with restricted read or write access to MONs, OSDs, pools,and namespaces

•    Create a RADOS block device image
•    Obtain information about a RADOS block device image
•    Map a RADOS block device image on a server
•    Use a RADOS block device image
•    Create an RBD snapshot    
•    Create an RBD clone
•    Configure RBD mirrors
•    Deploy a RBD mirror agent
•    Configure one-way RBD mirroring in pool mode
•    Configure one-way RBD mirroring in image mode
•    Check the status of the mirroring process
•    Import and export RBD images
•    Export a RADOS block device to an image file
•    Create an incremental RBD image file
•    Import a full RBD image file
•    Import a full RBD image file updated with an incremental RBD image file    

•    Deploy a RADOS gateway
•    Deploy a multisite RADOS gateway
•    Provide object storage using the Amazon S3 API
•    Be able to create a RADOSGW user that will use the S3 client’s commands
•    Be able to upload and download objects to a RADOSGW using the S3 client commands
•    Export S3 objects using NFS
•    Provide object storage for Swift
•    Be able to create a RADOSGW user that will use the Swift interface
•    Be able to upload or download objects to a RADOSGW using Swift commands    

•    Create a Ceph file system
•    Mount a Ceph file system on a client node, persistently
•    Configure CephFS quotas
•    Create a CephFS snapshot

•    Be able to create a bucket hierarchy in a CRUSH map that can be used in an erasure profile or a replicant rule
•    Be able to remap a PG
•    Be able to remap all PGs in a pool for an optimal redistribution

•    Manage MON and OSD maps
•    Be able to monitor and change OSD storage limits for monitoring available space on an OSD

•    Determine the general status of a Ceph cluster
•    Troubleshoot problems with OSDs and MONs

•    Specify and tune key network tuning parameters for a Ceph cluster
•    Control and manage scrubbing and deep scrubbing
•    Control and manage recovery and rebalancing processes    
•    Control and manage RAM utilization against I/O performance

•    Troubleshoot client issues
•    Enable debugging mode on RADOS gateway
•    Optimize RBD client access using key tuning parameters    

•    Integrate Ceph using both Glance and Cinder
•    Identify key Glance configuration files
•    Configure Glance to use Ceph as a backend to store images in the Ceph cluster
•    Identify key Cinder configuration files
•    Configure Cinder to use Ceph RBDs for block storage backing volumes