Sébastien Han

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Ceph: managing CRUSH with the CLI

Getting more familiar with the Ceph CLI with CRUSH.


For the purpose of this exercise, I am going to:

  • Setup two new racks in my existing infrastructure
  • Simply add my current server in them
  • Create a new CRUSH rule that uses both racks


Let’s start by creating two new racks:

$ ceph osd crush add-bucket rack1 rack
added bucket rack1 type rack to crush map
$ ceph osd crush add-bucket rack2 rack
added bucket rack2 type rack to crush map

As you can see racks are empty (and this normal):

$ ceph osd tree
# id    weight  type name   up/down reweight
-6  0   rack rack2
-5  0   rack rack1
-1  11.73   root default
-2  5.46        host test1
0   1.82            osd.0   up  1
1   1.82            osd.1   up  1
-3  5.46        host test2
2   1.82            osd.2   up  1
3   1.82            osd.3   up  1

Now we assign each host to a specific rack:

$ ceph osd crush move test1 rack=rack1
moved item id -2 name 'test1' to location {rack=rack1} in crush map

$ ceph osd crush move test2 rack=rack2
moved item id -3 name 'test2' to location {rack=rack1} in crush map

We move both racks into the default root:

$ ceph osd crush move rack2 root=default
moved item id -6 name 'rack2' to location {root=default} in crush map
$ ceph osd crush move rack1 root=default
moved item id -5 name 'rack1' to location {root=default} in crush map

Check the final result:

$ ceph osd tree
# id    weight  type name   up/down reweight
-1  11.73   root default
-6  0.81        rack rack2
2   1.82                osd.2   up  1
3   1.82                osd.3   up  1
-5  10.92       rack rack1
-2  5.46            host os-ci-test10
0   1.82                osd.0   up  1
1   1.82                osd.1   up  1

Eventually create a new rule for this placement:

$ ceph osd crush rule create-simple racky default rack
{ "rule_id": 3,
  "rule_name": "racky",
  "ruleset": 3,
  "type": 1,
  "min_size": 1,
  "max_size": 10,
  "steps": [
        { "op": "take",
          "item": -1},
        { "op": "chooseleaf_firstn",
          "num": 0,
          "type": "rack"},
        { "op": "emit"}]}]

Finally, you can assign a pool to this ruleset:

$ ceph osd pool set rbd crush_ruleset 3
set pool 2 crush_ruleset to 3


Ceph’s CLI is getting more and more powerful. It is good to see that we don’t need to download the CRUSH map, then edit it manually and eventually re-commit it :).

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