Upgrading ceph cluster failed with error "failed to schedule mon "d". failed to schedule canary pod(s)" when upgrading internal ODF

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Upgrading internal ODF failed, storagecluster stuck in "phase: Error" with below error:
      lastHeartbeatTime: "2025-09-04T06:02:06Z"
      lastTransitionTime: "2025-09-04T06:01:37Z"
      message: 'CephCluster error: failed to create cluster: failed to start ceph
        monitors: failed to assign pods to mons: failed to schedule mons'
      reason: ClusterStateError
      status: "True"
      type: Degraded
  • Pod rook-ceph-mon-d-canary is pending with below error while Pod rook-ceph-mon-d is running normally:
$ oc describe pod rook-ceph-mon-d-canary-76475b4f55-qkrb6 -n openshift-storage
Events:
  Type     Reason            Age                    From               Message
  ----     ------            ----                   ----               -------
  Warning  FailedScheduling  2m20s                  default-scheduler  0/8 nodes are available: 2 node(s) didn't match Pod's node affinity/selector, 3 node(s) didn't match pod anti-affinity rules, 3 node(s) had untolerated taint {node-role.kubernetes.io/master: }. preemption: 0/8 nodes are available: 3 node(s) didn't match pod anti-affinity rules, 5 Preemption is not helpful for scheduling.
  Warning  FailedScheduling  2m16s (x2 over 2m18s)  default-scheduler  0/8 nodes are available: 2 node(s) didn't match Pod's node affinity/selector, 3 node(s) didn't match pod anti-affinity rules, 3 node(s) had untolerated taint {node-role.kubernetes.io/master: }. preemption: 0/8 nodes are available: 3 node(s) didn't match pod anti-affinity rules, 5 Preemption is not helpful for scheduling.

$ oc get po rook-ceph-mon-d-7bbb948b79-n7vzk 
NAME                               READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
rook-ceph-mon-d-7bbb948b79-n7vzk   2/2     Running   0          23h

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.x

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