Chapter 9. The Virtual Storage Manager for Ceph
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Understanding the VSM architecture
- Setting up the VSM environment
- Getting ready for VSM
- Installing VSM
- Creating a Ceph cluster using VSM
- Exploring the VSM dashboard
- Upgrading the Ceph cluster using VSM
- VSM roadmap
- VSM resources
Introduction
The Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) is a software originally initiated and developed by Intel for Ceph cluster management; it was later open sourced by Intel under the Apache 2.0 License. Ceph comes with the ceph-deploy CLI tool for cluster deployment, and it also provides a rich CLI for cluster management. VSM on the other hand provides a web-based user interface to simplify the creation and management of Ceph clusters. ...
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