Creating Block Devices

Perform operations in this section only on ceph1.

In the RBD storage pool, create a 200 GB block device. --size indicates the size of the block device.
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rbd create --size 204800 vdbench/image1
Check whether the creation is successful. In the command, --pool specifies the storage pool name and is used for viewing the images in this storage pool.
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rbd ls --pool vdbench
- For details about how to quickly create multiple block devices, see How Do I Quickly Create Multiple Block Devices?.
- For more information about RBD, see the description in the Ceph open source community.

Parent topic: Enabling Ceph Block Storage