Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Connecting Ceph to Proxmox

As of Proxmox VE 5.0, we can only connect Ceph block storage (RBD) to Proxmox. We cannot connect Ceph Object Storage or Ceph FileSystem. We can connect Ceph RBD storage to the cluster using the Proxmox GUI. However, there is one step that needs to be completed before Proxmox can successfully read the Ceph storage. Ceph uses authentication for its functioning. Authentication occurs based on keyrings, which are created along with the Ceph cluster. For each Ceph storage, we need to connect to Proxmox, and we need to copy the main Ceph admin keyring to the Proxmox directory. The keyring that we need to copy is located in /priv/ceph.client.admin.keyring.

This keyring needs to be copied to the following location and in ...