Overview

The following table shows the general information about the Add Ceph pool plugin:

Property	Value
ID	add_pool
Name	Add Ceph pool
Required server list	No

The following table lists the available hints for the plugin:

Hint	Title	Default value	Description
pool_name	The name of the pool to add or modify. Must be unique.	test	Defines the name of the pool you are going to create/modify.
pg_num	The total number of placement groups for the pool	0	The number of placement groups for the pool. 0 means default setting
pgp_num	The total number of placement groups for the placement purposes	0	The number of placement groups for the pool placement purposes. 0 means default setting
pool_type	The type of the pool.	replicated	Defines type of the pool. Please check official documentation for details.
crush_ruleset_name	The name of a CRUSH ruleset to use for this pool. The specified ruleset must exist.	replicated_ruleset	For replicated pools it is the ruleset specified by the osd pool default crush replicated ruleset config variable. This ruleset must exist. For erasure pools it is erasure-code if the default erasure code profile is used or {pool-name} otherwise. This ruleset will be created implicitly if it doesn’t exist already.
erasure_code_profile	The name of a erasure code profile.	default	The name of the erasure code profile. Please check ` documentation <http://docs.ceph.com/docs/kraken/rados/operations/erasure-code-profile>`_ for details.
expected_num_objects	The expected number of objects in the pool.	0	The expected number of objects for this pool. By setting this value ( together with a negative filestore merge threshold), the PG folder splitting would happen at the pool creation time, to avoid the latency impact to do a runtime folder splitting.
quota_max_objects	Max number of objects within a pool.	0	0 means unlimited.
quota_max_bytes	Max number of bytes of the pool, capacity.	0	0 means unlimited.
replica_size	The number of object replicas	1	The number of object copies within a pool.
replica_min_size	The minimal number of object replicas	1	The minimal number of object replicas for I/O tasks.