JIten,

You simply start more metadata servers. You'll notice when you inspect the
cluster health that one will be the active, and the rest will be standbys.

Chris

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:10 PM, JIten Shah <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:36 PM, JIten Shah <[email protected]> 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
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