path: root/doc/rados/operations/add-or-rm-osds.rst

======================
 Adding/Removing OSDs
======================

When you have a cluster up and running, you may add OSDs or remove OSDs
from the cluster at runtime.

Adding OSDs
===========

When you want to expand a cluster, you may add an OSD at runtime. With Ceph, an
OSD is generally one Ceph ``ceph-osd`` daemon for one storage drive within a
host machine. If your host has multiple storage drives, you may map one
``ceph-osd`` daemon for each drive.

Generally, it's a good idea to check the capacity of your cluster to see if you
are reaching the upper end of its capacity. As your cluster reaches its ``near
full`` ratio, you should add one or more OSDs to expand your cluster's capacity.

.. warning:: Do not let your cluster reach its ``full ratio`` before
   adding an OSD. OSD failures that occur after the cluster reaches
   its ``near full`` ratio may cause the cluster to exceed its
   ``full ratio``.

Deploy your Hardware
--------------------

If you are adding a new host when adding a new OSD,  see `Hardware
Recommendations`_ for details on minimum recommendations for OSD hardware. To
add an OSD host to your cluster, first make sure you have an up-to-date version
of Linux installed, and you have made some initial preparations for your
storage drives.  See `Filesystem Recommendations`_ for details.

Add your OSD host to a rack in your cluster, connect it to the network
and ensure that it has network connectivity. See the `Network Configuration
Reference`_ for details.

.. _Hardware Recommendations: ../../../start/hardware-recommendations
.. _Filesystem Recommendations: ../../configuration/filesystem-recommendations
.. _Network Configuration Reference: ../../configuration/network-config-ref

Install the Required Software
-----------------------------

For manually deployed clusters, you must install Ceph packages
manually. See `Installing Ceph (Manual)`_ for details.
You should configure SSH to a user with password-less authentication
and root permissions.

.. _Installing Ceph (Manual): ../../../install


Adding an OSD (Manual)
----------------------

This procedure sets up a ``ceph-osd`` daemon, configures it to use one drive,
and configures the cluster to distribute data to the OSD. If your host has
multiple drives, you may add an OSD for each drive by repeating this procedure.

To add an OSD, create a data directory for it, mount a drive to that directory,
add the OSD to the cluster, and then add it to the CRUSH map.

When you add the OSD to the CRUSH map, consider the weight you give to the new
OSD. Hard drive capacity grows 40% per year, so newer OSD hosts may have larger
hard drives than older hosts in the cluster (i.e., they may have greater
weight).

.. tip:: Ceph prefers uniform hardware across pools. If you are adding drives
   of dissimilar size, you can adjust their weights. However, for best
   performance, consider a CRUSH hierarchy with drives of the same type/size.

#. Create the OSD. If no UUID is given, it will be set automatically when the
   OSD starts up. The following command will output the OSD number, which you
   will need for subsequent steps:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph osd create [{uuid} [{id}]]

   If the optional parameter {id} is given it will be used as the OSD id.
   Note, in this case the command may fail if the number is already in use.

   .. warning:: In general, explicitly specifying {id} is not recommended.
      IDs are allocated as an array, and skipping entries consumes some extra
      memory. This can become significant if there are large gaps and/or
      clusters are large. If {id} is not specified, the smallest available is
      used.

#. Create the default directory on your new OSD:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ssh {new-osd-host}
      sudo mkdir /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-{osd-number}

#. If the OSD is for a drive other than the OS drive, prepare it
   for use with Ceph, and mount it to the directory you just created:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ssh {new-osd-host}
      sudo mkfs -t {fstype} /dev/{drive}
      sudo mount -o user_xattr /dev/{hdd} /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-{osd-number}

#. Initialize the OSD data directory:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ssh {new-osd-host}
      ceph-osd -i {osd-num} --mkfs --mkkey

   The directory must be empty before you can run ``ceph-osd``.

#. Register the OSD authentication key. The value of ``ceph`` for
   ``ceph-{osd-num}`` in the path is the ``$cluster-$id``.  If your
   cluster name differs from ``ceph``, use your cluster name instead:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph auth add osd.{osd-num} osd 'allow *' mon 'allow rwx' -i /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-{osd-num}/keyring

#. Add the OSD to the CRUSH map so that the OSD can begin receiving data. The
   ``ceph osd crush add`` command allows you to add OSDs to the CRUSH hierarchy
   wherever you wish. If you specify at least one bucket, the command
   will place the OSD into the most specific bucket you specify, *and* it will
   move that bucket underneath any other buckets you specify. **Important:** If
   you specify only the root bucket, the command will attach the OSD directly
   to the root, but CRUSH rules expect OSDs to be inside of hosts.

   Execute the following:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph osd crush add {id-or-name} {weight}  [{bucket-type}={bucket-name} ...]

   You may also decompile the CRUSH map, add the OSD to the device list, add the
   host as a bucket (if it's not already in the CRUSH map), add the device as an
   item in the host, assign it a weight, recompile it and set it. See
   `Add/Move an OSD`_ for details.


.. _rados-replacing-an-osd:

Replacing an OSD
----------------

.. note:: If the instructions in this section do not work for you, try the
   instructions in the cephadm documentation: :ref:`cephadm-replacing-an-osd`.

When disks fail, or if an administrator wants to reprovision OSDs with a new
backend, for instance, for switching from FileStore to BlueStore, OSDs need to
be replaced. Unlike `Removing the OSD`_, replaced OSD's id and CRUSH map entry
need to be keep intact after the OSD is destroyed for replacement.

#. Make sure it is safe to destroy the OSD:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      while ! ceph osd safe-to-destroy osd.{id} ; do sleep 10 ; done

#. Destroy the OSD first:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph osd destroy {id} --yes-i-really-mean-it

#. Zap a disk for the new OSD, if the disk was used before for other purposes.
   It's not necessary for a new disk:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph-volume lvm zap /dev/sdX

#. Prepare the disk for replacement by using the previously destroyed OSD id:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph-volume lvm prepare --osd-id {id} --data /dev/sdX

#. And activate the OSD:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph-volume lvm activate {id} {fsid}

Alternatively, instead of preparing and activating, the device can be recreated
in one call, like:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph-volume lvm create --osd-id {id} --data /dev/sdX


Starting the OSD
----------------

After you add an OSD to Ceph, the OSD is in your configuration. However,
it is not yet running. The OSD is ``down`` and ``in``. You must start
your new OSD before it can begin receiving data. You may use
``service ceph`` from your admin host or start the OSD from its host
machine:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      sudo systemctl start ceph-osd@{osd-num}


Once you start your OSD, it is ``up`` and ``in``.


Observe the Data Migration
--------------------------

Once you have added your new OSD to the CRUSH map, Ceph  will begin rebalancing
the server by migrating placement groups to your new OSD. You can observe this
process with  the `ceph`_ tool. :

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph -w

You should see the placement group states change from ``active+clean`` to
``active, some degraded objects``, and finally ``active+clean`` when migration
completes. (Control-c to exit.)

.. _Add/Move an OSD: ../crush-map#addosd
.. _ceph: ../monitoring



Removing OSDs (Manual)
======================

When you want to reduce the size of a cluster or replace hardware, you may
remove an OSD at runtime. With Ceph, an OSD is generally one Ceph ``ceph-osd``
daemon for one storage drive within a host machine. If your host has multiple
storage drives, you may need to remove one ``ceph-osd`` daemon for each drive.
Generally, it's a good idea to check the capacity of your cluster to see if you
are reaching the upper end of its capacity. Ensure that when you remove an OSD
that your cluster is not at its ``near full`` ratio.

.. warning:: Do not let your cluster reach its ``full ratio`` when
   removing an OSD. Removing OSDs could cause the cluster to reach
   or exceed its ``full ratio``.


Take the OSD out of the Cluster
-----------------------------------

Before you remove an OSD, it is usually ``up`` and ``in``.  You need to take it
out of the cluster so that Ceph can begin rebalancing and copying its data to
other OSDs. :

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph osd out {osd-num}


Observe the Data Migration
--------------------------

Once you have taken your OSD ``out`` of the cluster, Ceph  will begin
rebalancing the cluster by migrating placement groups out of the OSD you
removed. You can observe  this process with  the `ceph`_ tool. :

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph -w

You should see the placement group states change from ``active+clean`` to
``active, some degraded objects``, and finally ``active+clean`` when migration
completes. (Control-c to exit.)

.. note:: Sometimes, typically in a "small" cluster with few hosts (for
   instance with a small testing cluster), the fact to take ``out`` the
   OSD can spawn a CRUSH corner case where some PGs remain stuck in the
   ``active+remapped`` state. If you are in this case, you should mark
   the OSD ``in`` with:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph osd in {osd-num}

   to come back to the initial state and then, instead of marking ``out``
   the OSD, set its weight to 0 with:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph osd crush reweight osd.{osd-num} 0

   After that, you can observe the data migration which should come to its
   end. The difference between marking ``out`` the OSD and reweighting it
   to 0 is that in the first case the weight of the bucket which contains
   the OSD is not changed whereas in the second case the weight of the bucket
   is updated (and decreased of the OSD weight). The reweight command could
   be sometimes favoured in the case of a "small" cluster.



Stopping the OSD
----------------

After you take an OSD out of the cluster, it may still be running.
That is, the OSD may be ``up`` and ``out``. You must stop
your OSD before you remove it from the configuration: 

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ssh {osd-host}
      sudo systemctl stop ceph-osd@{osd-num}

Once you stop your OSD, it is ``down``.


Removing the OSD
----------------

This procedure removes an OSD from a cluster map, removes its authentication
key, removes the OSD from the OSD map, and removes the OSD from the
``ceph.conf`` file. If your host has multiple drives, you may need to remove an
OSD for each drive by repeating this procedure.

#. Let the cluster forget the OSD first. This step removes the OSD from the CRUSH
   map, removes its authentication key. And it is removed from the OSD map as
   well. Please note the :ref:`purge subcommand <ceph-admin-osd>` is introduced in Luminous, for older
   versions, please see below:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph osd purge {id} --yes-i-really-mean-it

#. Navigate to the host where you keep the master copy of the cluster's
   ``ceph.conf`` file:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ssh {admin-host}
      cd /etc/ceph
      vim ceph.conf

#. Remove the OSD entry from your ``ceph.conf`` file (if it exists)::

	[osd.1]
		host = {hostname}

#. From the host where you keep the master copy of the cluster's ``ceph.conf``
   file, copy the updated ``ceph.conf`` file to the ``/etc/ceph`` directory of
   other hosts in your cluster.

If your Ceph cluster is older than Luminous, instead of using ``ceph osd
purge``, you need to perform this step manually:


#. Remove the OSD from the CRUSH map so that it no longer receives data. You may
   also decompile the CRUSH map, remove the OSD from the device list, remove the
   device as an item in the host bucket or remove the host  bucket (if it's in the
   CRUSH map and you intend to remove the host), recompile the map and set it.
   See `Remove an OSD`_ for details:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph osd crush remove {name}

#. Remove the OSD authentication key:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph auth del osd.{osd-num}

   The value of ``ceph`` for ``ceph-{osd-num}`` in the path is the
   ``$cluster-$id``.  If your cluster name differs from ``ceph``, use your
   cluster name instead.

#. Remove the OSD:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph osd rm {osd-num}

   for example:

   .. prompt:: bash $

      ceph osd rm 1

.. _Remove an OSD: ../crush-map#removeosd