Michael Hackett

WHO KNEW THAT A CAREER IN DENTISTRY WOULD BE LIKE PULLING TEETH? Corrupt, cash-hungry, cut-throat con-men and crazies who'd spent time in the clink. The world of dentistry was not turning out quite the way Luke had expected - and then there were the patients to contend with too... Newly-qualified Luke was naïve. He'd thought dental practices were staffed by professional, caring people. He'd no idea he'd chosen a career in such a ruthless business where compassion is as rare as hens' teeth. Luke needed to wise up - and pretty damn quick! His ability to drill a tooth would count for nothing. His ability to bend the rules would be far more appropriate. While Luke is reeling from the shocking realities of working in an NHS dental practice, things go from bad to worse when Jack, his alcoholic dental partner, hires a non-English speaking receptionist purely because of her massive breasts. As the practice collapses into chaos and is threatened with closure, desperate measures are needed. Luke hits upon a plan to pay out-of-work actors to pretend to be patients in the hope of fooling the government inspectors. What could possibly go wrong...?

Gobsmacked!

Karan Singh

Vikhyat Umrao

Over 100 effective recipes to help you design, implement, and troubleshoot manage the software-defined and massively scalable Ceph storage system. About This Book Implement a Ceph cluster successfully and learn to manage it. Recipe based approach in learning the most efficient software defined storage system Implement best practices on improving efficiency and security of your storage cluster Learn to troubleshoot common issues experienced in a Ceph cluster Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at storage and cloud engineers, system administrators, or anyone who is interested in building software defined storage, to power your cloud or virtual infrastructure. If you have basic knowledge of GNU/Linux and storage systems, with no experience of software defined storage solutions and Ceph, but eager to learn then this book is for you What You Will Learn Understand, install, configure, and manage the Ceph storage system Get to grips with performance tuning and benchmarking, and learn practical tips to help run Ceph in production Integrate Ceph with OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova components Deep dive into Ceph object storage, including S3, Swift, and Keystone integration Configure a disaster recovery solution with a Ceph Multi-Site V2 gateway setup and RADOS Block Device mirroring Gain hands-on experience with Ceph Metrics and VSM for cluster monitoring Familiarize yourself with Ceph operations such as maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting Understand advanced topics including erasure-coding, CRUSH map, cache pool, and general Ceph cluster maintenance In Detail Ceph is a unified distributed storage system designed for reliability and scalability. This technology has been transforming the software-defined storage industry and is evolving rapidly as a leader with its wide range of support for popular cloud platforms such as OpenStack, and CloudStack, and also for virtualized platforms. Ceph is backed by Red Hat and has been developed by community of developers which has gained immense traction in recent years. This book will guide you right from the basics of Ceph , such as creating blocks, object storage, and filesystem access, to advanced concepts such as cloud integration solutions. The book will also cover practical and easy to implement recipes on CephFS, RGW, and RBD with respect to the major stable release of Ceph Jewel. Towards the end of the book, recipes based on troubleshooting and best practices will help you get to grips with managing Ceph storage in a production environment. By the end of this book, you will have practical, hands-on experience of using Ceph efficiently for your storage requirements. Style and approach This step-by-step guide is filled with practical tutorials, making complex scenarios easy to understand.

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