The VSM dashboard makes most of the operations around the Ceph cluster extremely easy, whether it's deployment, server management, cluster management/monitoring, or even OpenStack integration. The VSM dashboard is very user friendly and you can explore most of its features by yourself. The VSM dashboard provides the following options:
- Dashboard: This provides the complete status of the system including the following:
- VSM Status: This gives you the VSM version, uptime, Ceph version, and so on
- Cluster Summary: This gives you the Ceph cluster status, similar to
ceph -soutput - OSD Summary
- Monitor Summary
- MDS Summary
- PG Summary
It also gives performance metric such as IOPS, Latency, Bandwidth and CPU utilization for all Ceph nodes
- Server Management: This includes the following:
- Manage Servers: The functions are described as follows:
- It provides lists of all servers with information such as management, cluster and public network addresses, Ceph version, status, and so on.
- It provides options to add or remove servers, Ceph monitors, and start or stop servers.
- Manage Devices: The functions are described as follows:
- This gives the list of all Ceph OSDs including their status, weight, server they are hosted on, as well as storage class.
- This allows the creation of new OSDs as well as the restarting, removing, and restoring of OSDs.
- Manage Servers: The functions are described as follows:
- Cluster Management
This section of the VSM dashboard provides several options to manage the Ceph cluster:
- Create Cluster
- Upgrade Cluster
- Manage Pools: This helps you to create replicated/erasure coded pools, add/remove cache tier, and so on
- Manage Storage Group: Add new storage groups
- Cluster Monitoring: This section of the VSM dashboard provides complete cluster monitoring, including all of its components:
- Storage Group Status
- Pool Status
- OSD Status
- Monitor Status
- MDS Status
- PG Status
- RBD Status
- OpenStack Integration: This section of the VSM dashboard allows us to integrate Ceph storage to OpenStack by adding OpenStack endpoints and presenting RBD pools to OpenStack:
- Manage RBD Pools: Present RBD Pools to OpenStack
- OpenStack Access: Add the OpenStack endpoint
- VSM Management: This section of the VSM dashboard allows us to manage settings related to the VSM dashboard itself:
- Add/Remove User: Create or remove a user and change the password
- Settings: Various settings related to Ceph
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