Running Ceph with SYSVINIT

SYSVINIT is a traditional yet recommended method of managing Ceph daemons on Red-Hat-based systems as well as for some older Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions. The general syntax for managing Ceph daemons using sysvinit is /etc/init.d/ceph [options] [command] [daemons].

Starting and stopping all daemons

To start or stop all Ceph daemons, perform the following set of commands.

How to do it…

Let's see how to start and stop all Ceph daemons:

  1. To start your Ceph cluster, execute Ceph with the start command. This command will start all Ceph services that you have deployed for all the hosts mentioned in the ceph.conf file:
    # /etc/init.d/ceph -a start
  2. To stop your Ceph cluster, execute Ceph using the stop command. This command ...

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