Chapter 3. Deploy OpenShift Data Foundation using Red Hat Ceph storage Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation can make services from an external Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster available for consumption through OpenShift Container Platform clusters. You need to install the OpenShift Data Foundation operator and then create OpenShift Data Foundation cluster for external Ceph storage system. 3.1. Installing Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Operator You can install Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Operator using the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Operator Hub. Prerequisites Access to an OpenShift Container Platform cluster using an account with cluster-admin and Operator installation permissions. For additional resource requirements, see the Planning your deployment guide. Important When you need to override the cluster-wide default node selector for OpenShift Data Foundation, you can use the following command in the command line interface to specify a blank node selector for the openshift-storage namespace (create openshift-storage namespace in this case): Procedure Log in to the OpenShift Web Console. Click Operators OperatorHub . Scroll or type OpenShift Data Foundation into the Filter by keyword box to find the OpenShift Data Foundation Operator. Click Install . Set the following options on the Install Operator page: Update Channel as stable-4.9 . Installation Mode as A specific namespace on the cluster . Installed Namespace as Operator recommended namespace openshift-storage . If Namespace openshift-storage does not exist, it is created during the operator installation. Select Approval Strategy as Automatic or Manual . If you select Automatic updates, then the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) automatically upgrades the running instance of your Operator without any intervention. If you select Manual updates, then the OLM creates an update request. As a cluster administrator, you must then manually approve that update request to update the Operator to a newer version. Ensure that the Enable option is selected for the Console plugin . Click Install . Note We recommend using all default settings. Changing it may result in unexpected behavior. Alter only if you are aware of its result. Verification steps Verify that the OpenShift Data Foundation Operator shows a green tick indicating successful installation. After the operator is successfully installed, a pop-up with a message, Web console update is available appears on the user interface. Click Refresh web console from this pop-up for the console changes to reflect. In the Web Console, navigate to Operators and verify if OpenShift Data Foundation is available. Important In case the console plugin option was not automatically enabled after you installed the OpenShift Data Foundation Operator, you need to enable it. For more information on how to enable the console plugin, see Enabling the Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation console plugin . 3.2. Creating an OpenShift Data Foundation Cluster for external Ceph storage system You need to create a new OpenShift Data Foundation cluster after you install OpenShift Data Foundation operator on OpenShift Container Platform deployed on VMware vSphere or user-provisioned bare metal infrastructures. Prerequisites Ensure the OpenShift Container Platform version is 4.9 or above before deploying OpenShift Data Foundation 4.9. OpenShift Data Foundation operator must be installed. For more information, see Installing OpenShift Data Foundation Operator using the Operator Hub . Red Hat Ceph Storage version 4.2z1 or later is required for the external cluster. For more information, see this knowledge base article on Red Hat Ceph Storage releases and corresponding Ceph package versions . If you have updated the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster from a version lower than 4.1.1 to the latest release and is not a freshly deployed cluster, you must manually set the application type for CephFS pool on the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster to enable CephFS PVC creation in external mode. For more details, see Troubleshooting CephFS PVC creation in external mode . Red Hat Ceph Storage must have Ceph Dashboard installed and configured. For more information, see Ceph Dashboard installation and access . It is recommended that the external Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster has the PG Autoscaler enabled. For more information, see The placement group autoscaler section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage documentation. The external Ceph cluster should have an existing RBD pool pre-configured for use. If it does not exist, contact your Red Hat Ceph Storage administrator to create one before you move ahead with OpenShift Data Foundation deployment. Red Hat recommends to use a separate pool for each OpenShift Data Foundation cluster. Optional: If there is a zonegroup created apart from the default zonegroup, you need to add the hostname, rook-ceph-rgw-ocs-external-storagecluster-cephobjectstore.openshift-storage.svc to the zonegroup as OpenShift Data Foundation sends S3 requests to the RADOS Object Gateways (RGWs) with this hostname. For more information, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase solution Ceph - How to add hostnames in RGW zonegroup? . Procedure Click Operators Installed Operators to view all the installed operators. Ensure that the Project selected is openshift-storage . Click OpenShift Data Foundation and then click Create StorageSystem . In the Backing storage page, select the following options: Select Connect an external storage platform from the available options. Select Red Hat Ceph Storage for Storage platform . Click . In the Connection details page, provide the necessary information: Click on the Download Script link to download the python script for extracting Ceph cluster details. For extracting the Red Hat Ceph Storage (RHCS) cluster details, contact the RHCS administrator to run the downloaded python script on a Red Hat Ceph Storage node with admin key . Run the following command on the RHCS node to view the list of available arguments: Important Use python instead of python3 if the Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.x cluster is deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x (RHEL 7.x) cluster. Note You can also run the script from inside a MON container (containerized deployment) or from a MON node (rpm deployment). To retrieve the external cluster details from the RHCS cluster, run the following command: For example: In this example, --rbd-data-pool-name A mandatory parameter that is used for providing block storage in OpenShift Data Foundation. --rgw-endpoint An optional parameter, which needs to provided only if the object storage is to be provisioned through Ceph Rados Gateway for OpenShift Data Foundation. Provide the endpoint in the following format: <ip_address>:<port> --monitoring-endpoint Is optional. It accepts comma separated list of IP addresses of active and standby mgrs reachable from the OpenShift Container Platform cluster. If not provided, the value is automatically populated. --monitoring-endpoint-port This is optional. It is the port associated with the ceph-mgr Prometheus exporter specified by --monitoring-endpoint . If not provided, the value is automatically populated. --run-as-user This is an optional parameter used for providing name for the Ceph user which is created by the script. If this parameter is not specified, a default user name client.healthchecker is created. The permissions for the new user is set as: caps: [mgr] allow command config caps: [mon] allow r, allow command quorum_status, allow command version caps: [osd] allow rwx pool= RGW_POOL_PREFIX.rgw.meta , allow r pool= .rgw.root , allow rw pool= RGW_POOL_PREFIX.rgw.control , allow rx pool= RGW_POOL_PREFIX.rgw.log , allow x pool= RGW_POOL_PREFIX.rgw.buckets.index Example of JSON output generated using the python script: Save the JSON output to a file with .json extension Note For OpenShift Data Foundation to work seamlessly, ensure that the parameters (RGW endpoint, CephFS details, RBD pool, and so on) to be uploaded using the JSON file remains unchanged on the RHCS external cluster after the storage cluster creation. Click Browse to select and upload the JSON file. The content of the JSON file is populated and displayed in the text box. Click The button is enabled only after you upload the .json file. In the Review and create page, review if all the details are correct: To modify any configuration settings, click Back to go back to the configuration page. Click Create StorageSystem . Verification steps To verify the final Status of the installed storage cluster: In the OpenShift Web Console, navigate to Installed Operators OpenShift Data Foundation Storage System ocs-external-storagecluster-storagesystem Resources . Verify that Status of StorageCluster is Ready and has a green tick. To verify that OpenShift Data Foundation, pods and StorageClass are successfully installed, see Verifying your external mode OpenShift Data Foundation installation for external Ceph storage system . 3.3. Verifying your OpenShift Data Foundation installation for external Ceph storage system Use this section to verify that OpenShift Data Foundation is deployed correctly. 3.3.1. Verifying the state of the pods Click Workloads Pods from the left pane of the OpenShift Web Console. Select openshift-storage from the Project drop-down list. Note If the Show default projects option is disabled, use the toggle button to list all the default projects. For more information on the expected number of pods for each component and how it varies depending on the number of nodes, see Table 3.1, "Pods corresponding to OpenShift Data Foundation components" Verify that the following pods are in running state: Table 3.1. Pods corresponding to OpenShift Data Foundation components Component Corresponding pods OpenShift Data Foundation Operator ocs-operator-* (1 pod on any worker node) ocs-metrics-exporter-* (1 pod on any worker node) odf-operator-controller-manager-* (1 pod on any worker node) odf-console-* (1 pod on any worker node) Rook-ceph Operator rook-ceph-operator-* (1 pod on any worker node) Multicloud Object Gateway noobaa-operator-* (1 pod on any worker node) noobaa-core-* (1 pod on any worker node) noobaa-db-pg-* (1 pod on any worker node) noobaa-endpoint-* (1 pod on any worker node) CSI cephfs csi-cephfsplugin-* (1 pod on each worker node) csi-cephfsplugin-provisioner-* (2 pods distributed across worker nodes) Note If an MDS is not deployed in the external cluster, the csi-cephfsplugin pods will not be created. rbd csi-rbdplugin-* (1 pod on each worker node) csi-rbdplugin-provisioner-* (2 pods distributed across worker nodes) 3.3.2. Verifying that the OpenShift Data Foundation cluster is healthy In the OpenShift Web Console, click Storage OpenShift Data Foundation . In the Status card of the Overview tab, click Storage System and then click the storage system link from the pop up that appears. In the Status card of the Block and File tab, verify that Storage Cluster has a green tick. In the Details card, verify that the cluster information is displayed. For more information on the health of OpenShift Data Foundation cluster using the Block and File dashboard, see Monitoring OpenShift Data Foundation . 3.3.3. Verifying that the Multicloud Object Gateway is healthy In the OpenShift Web Console, click Storage OpenShift Data Foundation . In the Status card of the Overview tab, click Storage System and then click the storage system link from the pop up that appears. In the Status card of the Object tab, verify that both Object Service and Data Resiliency have a green tick. In the Details card, verify that the Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) information is displayed. Note The RADOS Object Gateway is only listed in case RADOS Object Gateway endpoint details are included while deploying OpenShift Data Foundation in external mode. For more information on the health of OpenShift Data Foundation cluster using the object dashboard, see Monitoring OpenShift Data Foundation . 3.3.4. Verifying that the storage classes are created and listed Click Storage Storage Classes from the left pane of the OpenShift Web Console. Verify that the following storage classes are created with the OpenShift Data Foundation cluster creation: ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rgw ocs-external-storagecluster-cephfs openshift-storage.noobaa.io Note If an MDS is not deployed in the external cluster, ocs-external-storagecluster-cephfs storage class will not be created. If RGW is not deployed in the external cluster, the ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rgw storage class will not be created. For more information regarding MDS and RGW, see Red Hat Ceph Storage documentation 3.3.5. Verifying that Ceph cluster is connected Run the following command to verify if the OpenShift Data Foundation cluster is connected to the external Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. 3.3.6. Verifying that storage cluster is ready Run the following command to verify if the storage cluster is ready and the External option is set to true .

Commands:
oc annotate namespace openshift-storage openshift.io/node-selector=
python3 ceph-external-cluster-details-exporter.py --help
python3 ceph-external-cluster-details-exporter.py --rbd-data-pool-name <rbd block pool name> [optional arguments]
python3 ceph-external-cluster-details-exporter.py --rbd-data-pool-name ceph-rbd --monitoring-endpoint xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --monitoring-endpoint-port xxxx --rgw-endpoint xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx --run-as-user client.ocs
[{"name": "rook-ceph-mon-endpoints", "kind": "ConfigMap", "data": {"data": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx", "maxMonId": "0", "mapping": "{}"}}, {"name": "rook-ceph-mon", "kind": "Secret", "data": {"admin-secret": "admin-secret", "fsid": "<fs-id>", "mon-secret": "mon-secret"}}, {"name": "rook-ceph-operator-creds", "kind": "Secret", "data": {"userID": "<user-id>", "userKey": "<user-key>"}}, {"name": "rook-csi-rbd-node", "kind": "Secret", "data": {"userID": "csi-rbd-node", "userKey": "<user-key>"}}, {"name": "ceph-rbd", "kind": "StorageClass", "data": {"pool": "<pool>"}}, {"name": "monitoring-endpoint", "kind": "CephCluster", "data": {"MonitoringEndpoint": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", "MonitoringPort": "xxxx"}}, {"name": "rook-ceph-dashboard-link", "kind": "Secret", "data": {"userID": "ceph-dashboard-link", "userKey": "<user-key>"}}, {"name": "rook-csi-rbd-provisioner", "kind": "Secret", "data": {"userID": "csi-rbd-provisioner", "userKey": "<user-key>"}}, {"name": "rook-csi-cephfs-provisioner", "kind": "Secret", "data": {"adminID": "csi-cephfs-provisioner", "adminKey": "<admin-key>"}}, {"name": "rook-csi-cephfs-node", "kind": "Secret", "data": {"adminID": "csi-cephfs-node", "adminKey": "<admin-key>"}}, {"name": "cephfs", "kind": "StorageClass", "data": {"fsName": "cephfs", "pool": "cephfs_data"}}, {"name": "ceph-rgw", "kind": "StorageClass", "data": {"endpoint": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx", "poolPrefix": "default"}}, {"name": "rgw-admin-ops-user", "kind": "Secret", "data": {"accessKey": "<access-key>", "secretKey": "<secret-key>"}}]
oc get cephcluster -n openshift-storage NAME DATADIRHOSTPATH MONCOUNT AGE PHASE MESSAGE HEALTH EXTERNAL ocs-external-storagecluster-cephcluster 30m Connected Cluster connected successfully HEALTH_OK true
oc get storagecluster -n openshift-storage NAME AGE PHASE EXTERNAL CREATED AT VERSION ocs-external-storagecluster 30m Ready true 2021-11-17T09:09:52Z 4.9.0