After installing RHEL 8, I started building a Ceph Nautilus cluster with my four TerraMaster F5-422 nodes.

I installed Fedora 29 on my TerraMaster F5-422 for a quick Ceph test.

Obviously if you plan to use Fedora on this hardware for anything more than a quick test, use the latest version! Or try RHEL7 or CentOS Stream on it.

This is my braindump.

I reinstalled my TerraMaster F5-422 with CentOS Stream.

I bought a TerraMaster F5-422.

These are my notes on initial bringup.

I added a RLY-8 to my home lab. It has 8 controllable relays and can be talked to via network.

These are my notes on initial bringup.

It’s been about 2½ months since I started adding ODROID-HC2 nodes to my Ceph Luminous cluster.

This is a quick update on how it’s doing so far.

Just the steps needed to grow a cached LV.

I built a Ceph Luminous cluster containing seven ODROID-HC2 nodes. This cluster also contains some x86 VMs running on my hypervisor.

I use this cluster mainly as a Ceph playground.

For Ceph use I definitely did not want to mess about with serial console on the ODROID-HC2 (there are 7 nodes to install, there could be more). The instructions include getting rid of the need for serial console during first boot.

Added this to my server:

• Supermicro 2-Port NVme HBA AOC-SLG3-2M2-O
• 1000GB Samsung 960 Evo M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 32Gb/s 3D-NAND TLC Toggle

My braindump follows.