current status of using ceph on Proxmox nodes

mo_

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Oct 27, 2011
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Hi,

sorry if this seems a little weird, but I haven't been able to keep up with recent developments sadly. What I'm wondering is: assuming I know all the ins and outs of Ceph and want to be able to do literally everything you can do with a normal ceph cluster - can I use pveceph for this now or do I still have to install ceph manually alongside proxmox and live with the fact that the Ceph tab in Proxmox will remain empty/unconfigured? Like... is the 'ceph' CLI a vanilla ceph now, would I be able to extend the ceph cluster with ceph-deploy if I wanted to add non-proxmox storage-only nodes... those sorts of things. Or cache pools/storage tiering/erasure coding, possibly cephfs.

I know that the Ceph tab is awesome if you don't want to deal with Ceph yourself and just want a quick n fast-setup HA storage, but would I be better off with a manual setup?
 
Hi,
pve is debian, so you can use the normal ceph installation.

The ceph-gui-tab show then an "pveceph configuration not initialized (500)".

I don't have any OSDs on the pve-nodes - only monitors, but this shouldn't make any differences (my ceph-installation is older then pve-ceph).

BTW. use ceph-deploy instead an manual setup ;-)

Udo
 

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