8.4. Ceph Manager

The Manager daemon runs alongside the monitors. It provides an interface to monitor the cluster. Since the release of Ceph luminous, at least one ceph-mgr [15] daemon is required.

Multiple Managers can be installed, but only one Manager is active at any given time.

pveceph mgr create

To remove a Ceph Manager via the GUI, first select a node in the tree view and go to the Ceph → Monitor panel. Select the Manager and click the Destroy button.

To remove a Ceph Monitor via the CLI, first connect to the node on which the Manager is running. Then execute the following command:

pveceph mgr destroy