Using Ceph with Proxmox

Objective

This guide explains how to set up the Cloud Disk Array on Proxmox.

Requirements

First of all, you need your Cloud Disk Array up and ready. Make sure you have:

• created a cluster pool for storing data
• created a Ceph user that Proxmox will use to access the CDA cluster
• configured permissions for this user and pool (allow read and write)
• configured your IP access control list to allow Proxmox nodes to access the CDA

Instructions

Ceph RBD storage setup

In order to use Cloud Disk Array, Proxmox needs to know how to access it. This is done by adding the necessary data to the /etc/pve/storage.cfg file.

Log in to your Proxmox node, open the file and enter the following lines:

rbd: ovhcloud-cda
        monhost 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3
        content images
        pool vms
        username proxmox

• monhost: the IP list of CDA cluster monitors
• content: the content type you want to host on the CDA
• pool: the CDA pool name that will be used to store data
• username: the username of the user connecting to the CDA

Ceph keyring setup

Your cluster is now configured. To be able to authenticate, Proxmox will also need the keyring.

In order to add the keyring, edit the file /etc/pve/priv/ceph/<STORAGE_ID>.keyring. Replace <STORAGE_ID> with the actual name you used in the storage.cfg file. In the following example output, the name is ovhcloud-cda.

root@proxmox:~$ cat /etc/pve/priv/ceph/ovhcloud-cda.keyring
[client.proxmox]
        key = KLChQNJYQJCuXMBBrbsz2XllPn+5+cuXdIfJLg==

You can now see your cluster info using the Proxmox web interface and create a VM on this storage.

CephFS storage setup

In order to use CephFS, you need to enable it through the Cloud Disk Array API. The user defined in the first step can be used to access both RBD and CephFS.

The user has to be granted access to the cephfs.fs-default.data and cephfs.fs-default.meta pools. After that, add the following lines to your /etc/pve/storage.cfg config file.

cephfs: ovhcloud-cda-cephfs
        monhost 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3
        path /mnt/pve/cephfs
        content backup,vztmpl
        username proxmox

• monhost: the IP list of CDA cluster monitors
• content: the content type you want to host on the CDA
• username: the username of the user connecting to the CDA

CephFS secret

CephFS is now configured. You need to add the secret of your Proxmox user (proxmox in this example), so Proxmox can authenticate.

Edit the file /etc/pve/priv/ceph/<STORAGE_ID>.secret. Replace <STORAGE_ID> with the actual name you used in the storage.cfg file. In the following example output, the name is ovhcloud-cda-cephfs.

Unlike with the RBD keyring, you need to provide only the secret.

root@proxmox:~$ cat /etc/pve/priv/ceph/ovhcloud-cda-cephfs.secret
KLChQNJYQJCuXMBBrbsz2XllPn+5+cuXdIfJLg==

You can now download container templates and store them on CephFS:

root@pve:~$ pveam update
root@pve:~$ pveam available --section system
root@pve:~$ pveam download ovhcloud-cda-cephfs ubuntu-20.04-standard_20.04-1_amd64.tar.gz

Once a template has been downloaded, you can start using it to create containers.

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