Chapter 9. Managing pools on the Ceph dashboard

Procedure

1. Log in to the dashboard.
2. On the navigation menu, click Pools.
3. Click Create.

4. In the Create Pool window, set the following parameters:

   Figure 9.1. Creating pools

   
   1. Set the name of the pool and select the pool type.
   2. Select either replicated or Erasure Coded (EC) pool type.
   3. Set the Placement Group (PG) number.
   4. Optional: If using a replicated pool type, set the replicated size.
   5. Optional: If using an EC pool type configure the following additional settings.
   6. Optional: To see the settings for the currently selected EC profile, click the question mark.
   7. Optional: Add a new EC profile by clicking the plus symbol.
   8. Optional: Click the pencil symbol to select an application for the pool.
   9. Optional: Set the CRUSH rule, if applicable.
   10. Optional: If compression is required, select passive, aggressive, or force.
   11. Optional: Set the Quotas.
   12. Optional: Set the Quality of Service configuration.
5. Click Create Pool.
6. You get a notification that the pool was created successfully.

Procedure

1. Log in to the dashboard.
2. On the navigation menu, click Pools.
3. To edit the pool, click its row.
4. Select Edit In the Edit drop-down.

5. In the Edit Pool window, edit the required parameters and click Edit Pool:

   Figure 9.2. Editing pools

   
6. You get a notification that the pool was created successfully.

Procedure

1. Log in to the dashboard.
2. On the navigation bar, in Cluster drop-down menu, click Configuration.
3. In the Level drop-down menu, select Advanced:
4. Search for mon_allow_pool_delete, click Edit

5. Set all the values to true:

   Figure 9.3. Configuration to delete pools

   
6. On the navigation bar, click Pools:
7. To delete the pool, click on its row:
8. From Edit drop-down menu, select Delete.

9. In the Delete Pool window, Click the Yes, I am sure box and then Click Delete Pool to save the settings:

   Figure 9.4. Delete pools