Ceph RBD on Windows .. documentation seems lacking?

[dooferorg]

Now I don't know where to ask and post this but I am trying to get my Ceph RBD image mounted again on a new Windows OS install

Due to unfortunate disk errors (both SSDs died at same time) I cannot access my previously working Ceph config and keyring for Windows. I did have it working quite nicely under Windows 10. I am on Windows 11 now and have the RBD service installed.

However, I am running in to issues trying to find and mount the previous image that is in the pool 'blockdev'. I am not sure what I am missing.

I can run 'rbd ls blockdev-metadata' and see the name of the previous image. I was looking here: https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rbd/rbd-windows/ .. and I seem to remember doing something like that on the previous install. This time though I don't want to make a NEW image, I want to mount one that's already there.

What am I missing?

 

[dooferorg]

Don't you just love it when you can't figure it out, finally write a post and THEN get it working?

I'll mention it here in case anyone finds this later. What I did on the same admin powershell that you can list the image, do this:

rbd device map <pool name>/<image name> -onon-persistent

THEN it came up on the disk management and I could assign/change the drive image. All data accessible again.

 

[LnxBil]

I'll mention it here in case anyone finds this later.

Thank you for reporting back!