Proxmox Virtual Environment
K-Space Hyper Converged CEPH setup
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Configure a mesh network
ansible-playbook proxmox/ceph.yaml
This will configure the 40Gbit interfaces and FRR daemon with OpenFabric routing. Our CEPH setup uses a private IPv6 subnet for inner cluster communication.
fdcc:a182:4fed::/64
You can check Mesh network status by launching FRR shell
vtysh
and then typingshow openfabric topology
root@pve91:~# vtysh pve91# show openfabric topology IS-IS paths to level-2 routers that speak IPv6 Vertex Type Metric Next-Hop Interface Parent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ pve91 fdcc:a182:4fed::91/128 IP6 internal 0 pve91(4) pve93 TE-IS 10 pve93 enp161s0 pve91(4) pve90 TE-IS 10 pve90 enp161s0d1 pve91(4) fdcc:a182:4fed::93/128 IP6 internal 20 pve93 enp161s0 pve93(4) fdcc:a182:4fed::90/128 IP6 internal 20 pve90 enp161s0d1 pve90(4)
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Setup CEPH packages on all nodes
pveceph install --repository no-subscription --version squid
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CEPH init
pveceph init --network fdcc:a182:4fed::/64
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Create CEPH monitors on each node
pveceph mon create
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Also create CEPH managers on each node
pveceph mgr create
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Create OSD daemons for each disk on all nodes
NVMe drives will get 2 OSD daemons per disk for better IOPS
pveceph osd create /dev/nvme0n1 --crush-device-class nvme --osds-per-device 2
HDD-s will get just 1
pveceph osd create /dev/sdX --crush-device-class hdd
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Create CRUSH Maps
We want to separate out HDD and NVMe storage into different storage buckets.
Default
replicated_rule
would put datablock on all of the available disks# ceph osd crush rule create-replicated <rule-name> <root> <failure-domain> <class> ceph osd crush rule create-replicated replicated_nvme default host nvme ceph osd crush rule create-replicated replicated_hdd default host hdd
NB: Using default
replicated_rule
for ANY CEPH Pool will result in Placement Group (PG) Autoscaler not working as it cant properly calculate how much space is available in CEPH due to different device classes we are using -
Create CEPH Pools for VM disk images
This is done in individual node Ceph -> Pools configuration
NB: Under advanced, select correct Crush Rule (nvme or hdd)
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Create CephFS Storage pool for ISO images
First create metadata server on each node
pveceph mds create
Then on one of the individual nodes create a CephFS.
After that is done you can modify under Pools change the cephfs_data and cephfs_metadata Crush rules to use NVMe drives.