Any regular Linux host (RHEL or Debian-based) can act as a Ceph client. The Client interacts with the Ceph storage cluster over the network to store or retrieve user data. Ceph RBD support has been added to the Linux mainline kernel, starting with 2.6.34 and later versions.
As we have done earlier, we will set up a Ceph client machine using Vagrant and VirtualBox. We will use the same Vagrantfile
that we cloned in the last chapter. Vagrant will then launch an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine that we will configure as a Ceph client:
From the directory where we have cloned
ceph-cookbook git repository
, launch the client virtual machine using Vagrant:$ vagrant status client-node1 $ vagrant up client-node1
Log in to client-node1:
$ vagrant ssh client-node1
Check OS and kernel release (this is optional...