Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Managing a Ceph pool using Proxmox GUI

All Ceph pool-related tasks can be performed through the Datacenter | node | Ceph | Pools menu. The pool interface shows information about existing pools, such as the name, replica number, PG number, and per-pool percentage used. Once a pool is created, it cannot be modified or changed in any way from the Proxmox GUI. But a pool can be edited through the CLI. If you are going to strictly use the Proxmox GUI to perform all Ceph-related tasks, then a new pool needs to be created if existing pool configuration needs to be changed, such as changing the replica size or increasing the PG number. When the Ceph cluster is created, a default pool named rbd is created with replica size 3 and a total of 64 PGs. ...