Hi Greg, Sorry for the confusion. I am not looking for active/active configuration which I know is not supported but what documentation can I refer to for installing an active/stndby MDSes ? I tried looking on Ceph.com but could not find that explains how to setup an active/standby MDS cluster. Thanks. —Jiten On Dec 9, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Gregory Farnum <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You'll need to be a little more explicit about your question. In > general there is nothing special that needs to be done. If you're > trying to get multiple active MDSes (instead of active and > standby/standby-replay/etc) you'll need to tell the monitors to > increase the mds num (check the docs; this is not recommended right > now). You obviously need to add an MDS entry to one of your nodes > somewhere, the mechanism for which can differ based on how you're > managing your cluster. > But you don't need to do anything explicit like tell everybody > globally that there are multiple MDSes. > -Greg > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:48 AM, JIten Shah <jshah2005@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Do I need to update the ceph.conf to support multiple MDS servers? >> >> —Jiten >> >> On Nov 24, 2014, at 6:56 AM, Gregory Farnum <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:36 PM, JIten Shah <jshah2005@xxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Hi Greg, >>>> >>>> I haven’t setup anything in ceph.conf as mds.cephmon002 nor in any ceph >>>> folders. I have always tried to set it up as mds.lab-cephmon002, so I am >>>> wondering where is it getting that value from? >>> >>> No idea, sorry. Probably some odd mismatch between expectations and >>> how the names are actually being parsed and saved. >>> -Greg >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ceph-users mailing list >>> ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >> _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com