To configure Ceph MDS for a Ceph filesystem, you should have a running Ceph cluster. In the previous chapter, we deployed a Ceph cluster. We will use the same cluster for MDS deployment. MDS configuration is relatively simple to configure:
Use
ceph-deploy
from the ceph-node1 machine to configure MDS:# ceph-deploy mds create ceph-node2
Check the status of your Ceph cluster and look for an
mdsmap
entry. You will see your newly configured MDS node: