Ceph limitations

A Ceph cluster configuration in MOSK includes but is not limited to the following limitations:

  • Only one Ceph Controller per MOSK cluster and only one Ceph cluster per Ceph Controller are supported.

  • The replication size for any Ceph pool must be set to more than 1.

  • Only one CRUSH tree per cluster. The separation of devices per Ceph pool is supported through device classes with only one pool of each type for a device class.

  • All CRUSH rules must have the same failure_domain.

  • Only the following types of CRUSH buckets are supported:

    • topology.kubernetes.io/region

    • topology.kubernetes.io/zone

    • topology.rook.io/datacenter

    • topology.rook.io/room

    • topology.rook.io/pod

    • topology.rook.io/pdu

    • topology.rook.io/row

    • topology.rook.io/rack

    • topology.rook.io/chassis

  • RBD mirroring is not supported.

  • Consuming an existing Ceph cluster is not supported.

  • CephFS is not supported.

  • Only IPv4 is supported.

  • If two or more Ceph OSDs are located on the same device, there must be no dedicated WAL or DB for this class.

  • Only a full collocation or dedicated WAL and DB configurations are supported.

  • The minimum size of any defined Ceph OSD device is 5 GB.

  • Reducing the number of Ceph Monitors is not supported and causes the Ceph Monitor daemons removal from random nodes.

  • Ceph cluster does not support removable devices (with hotplug enabled) for deploying Ceph OSDs.

  • When adding a Ceph node with the Ceph Monitor role, if any issues occur with the Ceph Monitor, rook-ceph removes it and adds a new Ceph Monitor instead, named using the next alphabetic character in order. Therefore, the Ceph Monitor names may not follow the alphabetical order. For example, a, b, d, instead of a, b, c.