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endif::manvolnum[]
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{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 containers) and replicated storage. The traditional silos of
Creating initial Ceph configuration
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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`
in the following example) dedicated for Ceph:
Creating Ceph Monitors
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On each node where a monitor is requested (three monitors are recommended)
create it by using the "Ceph" item in the GUI or run.
Creating Ceph OSDs
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via GUI or via CLI as follows:
[source,bash]
Ceph Pools
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The standard installation creates per default the pool 'rbd',
additional pools can be created via GUI.
Ceph Client
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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
section xref:ceph_rados_block_devices[Ceph RADOS Block Devices (RBD)]).