Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Creating OSDs from Proxmox GUI

OSDs are actual disk drives where data is stored in a Ceph cluster. All OSD-related tasks can be performed through the Datacenter | node | Ceph | OSD menu. To view the installed disk drives in the node, go to the Datacenter | node | Disks menu. The following screenshot shows that we have two available drives, /dev/vdc and /dev/vdd, which can be used to create OSDs in node pmx-01:

To create an OSD, go to the Datacenter | node | Ceph | OSD menu and click on the Create OSD button to open a dialog box, as shown in the following screenshot. Select an available disk drive from the drop-down list, and then click on ...