:pve-toplevel:
endif::manvolnum[]
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+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-ceph-status.png"]
{pve} unifies your compute and storage systems, i.e. you can use the same
physical nodes within a cluster for both computing (processing VMs and
.Avoid RAID
As Ceph handles data object redundancy and multiple parallel writes to disks
-(OSDs) on its own, using a RAID controller normally doesn’t improves
+(OSDs) on its own, using a RAID controller normally doesn’t improve
performance or availability. On the contrary, Ceph is designed to handle whole
disks on it's own, without any abstraction in between. RAID controller are not
designed for the Ceph use case and may complicate things and sometimes even
Creating initial Ceph configuration
-----------------------------------
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+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-ceph-config.png"]
After installation of packages, you need to create an initial Ceph
configuration on just one node, based on your network (`10.10.10.0/24`
Creating Ceph Monitors
----------------------
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+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-ceph-monitor.png"]
The Ceph Monitor (MON)
footnote:[Ceph Monitor http://docs.ceph.com/docs/luminous/start/intro/]
Creating Ceph OSDs
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+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-ceph-osd-status.png"]
via GUI or via CLI as follows:
Creating Ceph Pools
-------------------
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+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-ceph-pools.png"]
A pool is a logical group for storing objects. It holds **P**lacement
**G**roups (PG), a collection of objects.
Ceph Client
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+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-ceph-log.png"]
You can then configure {pve} to use such pools to store VM or
Container images. Simply use the GUI too add a new `RBD` storage (see