Scope/Description This article will show how to setup Shadow Copy for SMB shares using CephFS snapshots in Houston UI. Prerequisites Houston UI cockpit-file-sharing module installed CephFS snapshots configured SMB share configured Steps Go to the File Sharing tab and click on the share you wish to add shadow copy to. Once editing, you can go […]
Read more »Scope/Description This article will show how to view CephFS information, Ceph Pools configured, and directories created within CephFS. Prerequisites Ceph Dashboard configured. CephFS Pool configured. Steps Viewing CephFS Information First, we’ll have to navigate to the Filesystem tab within the Ceph Dashboard. From here we can take a look at pools that are configured to […]
Read more »Scope/Description This article details the process of removing a samba share from your Ceph cluster. Prerequisites Configured Ceph Cluster Configured SMB share that you want to delete Steps Removing the SMB Sharing Protocol from the Directory To remove the share you will need to ssh into a gateway server. If you do not have gateways, […]
Read more »Scope/Description This guide will show how to create a new CephFS user, set permissions for CephFS directories, set quotas, mount the share, and make them persistent on the client. Assuming a CephFS directory setup with staging as a subdir, where cephx user:admin has rights to everything and cephx user:staging only has access to staging dir […]
Read more »Scope/Description This guide will show you how to mount the CephFS filesystem on a Linux client using a kernel driver mount and secret file. Prerequisites CephFS configured on a Ceph Cluster The IP or hostname of one or more Ceph Monitors Access to a Linux client system that can connect to the Ceph Cluster Installed […]
Read more »Scope/Description This article details the process of clearing the HEALTH_WARN on a ceph cluster due to a large omap object. Prerequisites Configured Ceph Cluster running CephFS Steps In some cases, the Ceph health reporter will start reporting that ‘large objects’ are found within a pool. This error will display when running the following commands: ceph […]
Read more »Scope/Description This article will show how to manually create a cephfs snapshots and then walk through the process of setting up automated hourly,daily,weekly,monthly, and/or yearly. Prerequisites An existing Nautilus ceph cluster with cephfs configured When using ceph-ansible-45d to build the cluster, this process is to be done after running the “core.yml”, “cephfs.yml”, “dashboard.yml” playbook Steps […]
Read more »Scope/Description This article will show you how to map Ceph RBD images to Windows clients directly. Ceph now has native windows drivers/support that allows to map RBD images directly. Prerequisites A standing Ceph cluster Windows Client with Ceph for Windows drivers Installed An RBD image created Steps Installing Ceph for Windows First we will need […]
Read more »Scope/Description This guide will demonstrate the steps to create and configure your CIFS shares to allow Windows Domain Admins to manage user/group access. Prerequisites PetaSAN cluster with CephFS + CIFS deployed Joined Active Directory Package “attr” is installed Steps Select “Add CIFS Share” from the CIFS shares page within the dashboard Create your CIFS share […]
Read more »Configuring CTDB (4.9 and above) Issue CTDB being updated to a version in 4.9.x series brings an overhaul in configuration file format, parameters and default locations. Thus in an environment where CTDB configuration under /etc/sysconfig/ or /etc/ctdb/ctdbd.conf has been modified previously might experience some irregularities unless proper migration procedures are performed after the update. Section […]
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