The current stable version of VSM at the time of writing this book is 2.0. This is the same version that we demonstrated in this chapter. Due to its easy-to-use, powerful, and feature-rich interface, VSM is getting quite popular in the Ceph community. The next release of VSM would be 2.1, which comes with several bug fixes and new features. Some of them are as follows:
The new features in VSM 2.1 are
Reporting the server name that is running the Monitor daemon
Prototype—the Ceph Calamari/VSM dashboard implementation
Identifying the physical location of a failed disk
Removing an unused disk path list during the addition of a new OSD
Displaying the disk's logical path instead of physical, while adding a new OSD
Attaching and managing the existing Ceph cluster
Monitoring the status page improvements
Displaying SMART information for storage devices
The bug fixes that are required in VSM 2.1