Just for future reference, you actually do need to remove the OSD even if you're going to re-add it like 10 sec later ... $ ceph osd rm 3 removed osd.3 $ ceph osd create 3 Then it works fine. No need to remove from crusmap or remove the auth key (you can re-use both), but you need to remove/add it from the cluster for it to properly boot. Cheers, Sylvain