The VSM dashboard makes most of the operations around the Ceph cluster extremely easy, whether it's deployment, server management, cluster management/monitoring, or even OpenStack integration. The VSM dashboard is very user-friendly and you can explore most of its features by yourself. The VSM dashboard provides the following options:

• Dashboard: This provides the complete status of the system including the following:
  • VSM Status: This gives you the VSM version, uptime, Ceph version, and so on
  • Cluster Summary: This gives you the Ceph cluster status, similar to the ceph -s command output
  • Summary: OSD, Monitor, MDS, and PG summary gives performance metrics such as IOPS, Latency, Bandwidth, and CPU utilization for all Ceph nodes
• Server Management: This includes the following:
  • Manage Servers: The functions are described as follows:
    • It provides lists of all servers with information such as Management Address, Cluster Address and Public Address, Ceph Version, Status, and so on
    • It provides options to Add Servers or Remove Servers, Add Monitors, and Start Servers or Stop Servers:

• • Manage Devices: The functions are described as follows:
    • This gives the list of all Ceph OSDs including their status, weight, server they are hosted on, as well as storage class
    • This allows the creation of new OSDs as well as the restarting, removing, and restoring of OSDs

• Cluster Management: This section of the VSM dashboard provides several options to manage the Ceph cluster:
  • Create Cluster, Upgrade Cluster, and Manage Pools helps you to create replicated/erasure coded pools, add/remove cache tier, and so on
  • Manage Storage Group adds new storage groups
• Cluster Monitoring: This section of the VSM dashboard provides complete cluster monitoring, including all of its components:
  • Storage Group Status
  • Pool Status
  • OSD Status
  • Monitor Status
  • MDS Status
  • PG Status
  • RBD Status

The components can be seen in the following screenshot:

• OpenStack Integration: This section of the VSM dashboard allows us to integrate Ceph storage to the OpenStack by adding OpenStack endpoints and presenting RBD pools to OpenStack:

• • Manage RBD Pools: Presents RBD Pools to OpenStack
  • OpenStack Access: Adds the OpenStack endpoint

• VSM Management: This section of the VSM dashboard allows us to manage settings related to the VSM dashboard itself:
  • Add/Remove User: Create or remove a user and change the password
  • Settings: Various settings related to Ceph