Category Archives: Ceph

OpenStack with Ceph: slow instance boot

This is another article about OpenStack with Ceph as the storage backend. Like my other posts about this topic this is not about how to install and configure your private cloud but it’s more a collection of obstacles you could … Continue reading

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OpenStack with Ceph: Clean up orphaned instances

Working with Ceph and OpenStack can make your life as a cloud administrator really easy, but sometimes you discover its downsides. From time to time I share some findings in this blog, it’s a nice documentation for me and hopefully … Continue reading

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Migrating BlueStore’s block.db

Note: There have been many improvements to ceph-volume and ceph-bluestore-tool to simplify the process of DB/WAL migration. A newer article describes the process for a cephadm managed cluster: Cephadm: migrate block.db/block.wal to new device Hence this post can be considered … Continue reading

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