Network bridge on pure ceph nodes

[alexx]

Hi,

I have a cluster with a few nodes dedicated to run only ceph. There are no VMs running on the ceph nodes.
Can I disable the bridge mode on the network interfaces of the ceph nodes or is the bridge necessary for cluster operation?

 

[dcsapak]

no it is not necessary to have a bridge, only when you want vms/ct on that node to have a network connection

 

[N0REAVER]

I think the advantage with bridges is that if you change/upgrade your network interfaces it's easier to reconfigure the bridge to use another interface than having to change the ceph configurations etc.