manual_installation.md

Manual Installation

Official documentation

Repos and software

For example the nautilus repos are:

https://download.ceph.com/rpm-nautilus/el7/x86_64/
https://download.ceph.com/rpm-nautilus/el7/noarch/

A nautilis installation consist for example of the following packages:

ceph-selinux-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64
libcephfs2-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64
ceph-osd-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64
ceph-common-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64
ceph-mds-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64
python-cephfs-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64
ceph-mgr-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64
ceph-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64
python-ceph-argparse-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64
ceph-mon-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64
ceph-base-14.2.11-0.el7.x86_64

This guide consider an installation where user ceph is used and it has sudo privileges.

Cluster identifier

/usr/bin/uuidgen
4f0be998-bcbe-4267-a866-a8f0fe74c444

• Firts node Login into the first node and ensure you have the folder

/etc/ceph

create a ceph.conf file

[global]
fsid = <cluster id>
mon_initial_members = <hostname1, hostname2 ...>
mon_host = <ip1 , ip2 ...>
cluster_network = <network CIDR notation>
public_network = <network CIDR notation>
auth_cluster_required = cephx
auth_service_required = cephx
auth_client_required = cephx
auth_supported = cephx

Keys creation

For a reference on the user management: User Management Monitor key creation

sudo ceph-authtool --create-keyring /tmp/ceph.mon.keyring --gen-key -n mon. --cap mon 'allow *'

Create admin key

sudo ceph-authtool --create-keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring --gen-key -n client.admin --cap mon 'allow *' --cap osd 'allow *' --cap mds 'allow *' --cap mgr 'allow *'

(Note that the name client.admin stands for 'client acting with admin privileges')

Generate a bootstrap-osd keyring and a client.bootstrap-osd user and add the user to the keyring

sudo ceph-authtool --create-keyring /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-osd/ceph.keyring --gen-key -n client.bootstrap-osd --cap mon 'profile bootstrap-osd' --cap mgr 'allow r'

(basically the bootstrap roles are used to bootstrap services and add the keys) Add the keys to the mon keyring

sudo ceph-authtool /tmp/ceph.mon.keyring --import-keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring
sudo ceph-authtool /tmp/ceph.mon.keyring --import-keyring /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-osd/ceph.keyring

Change the ownership

sudo chown ceph:ceph /tmp/ceph.mon.keyring

Create the monitor map

monmaptool --create --add {hostname} {ip-address} --fsid {uuid} /tmp/monmap

Create the directory for the monitor

sudo mkdir /var/lib/ceph/mon/{cluster-name}-{hostname}

Populate the monitor daemon(s) with the monitor map and keyring

sudo -u ceph ceph-mon [--cluster {cluster-name}] --mkfs -i {hostname} --monmap /tmp/monmap --keyring /tmp/ceph.mon.keyring

Start the monitor

sudo systemctl start ceph-mon@node1

Create the OSDs

Bluestore

Prepare and activate

sudo ceph-volume lvm create --data {data-path}
sudo ceph-volume lvm activate {ID} {FSID}

Alternative (manual disk preparation)

Considering using two disks (/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc). The first one to be used for data the second one for wal and db. Create a physical volume on the first one:

pvcreate /dev/sdb

Create the volume group

vgcreate disk1_data /dev/sdb
  Volume group "disk1_data" successfully created
vgdisplay 
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               disk1_data
  System ID             
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  1
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                0
  Open LV               0
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               <1,82 TiB
  PE Size               4,00 MiB
  Total PE              476598
  Alloc PE / Size       0 / 0   
  Free  PE / Size       476598 / <1,82 TiB
  VG UUID               JfdKeK-35Ck-wsBF-1pvw-Uj6a-FEdf-LzDPtQ

Finally create the logical volume

lvcreate -l100%FREE -n sdb_data disk1_data
  Logical volume "sdb_data" created.
[root@ds-303 manifests]# lvdisplay 
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/disk1_data/sdb_data
  LV Name                sdb_data
  VG Name                disk1_data
  LV UUID                gFZQDt-gZ3F-w2If-Us54-ijSA-qzWT-7Uc4jE
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time ds-303.cr.cnaf.infn.it, 2020-09-30 12:22:19 +0200
  LV Status              available
  # open                 0
  LV Size                <1,82 TiB
  Current LE             476598
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:0

Now prepare the wal and db partitions on the second disk.

pvcreate /dev/sdc
vgcreate disk2_journal /dev/sdc
lvcreate -L1G -n sdb_wal disk2_journal
lvcreate -L10G -n sdb_db disk2_journal