start up a Ceph cluster. I m interested in working on the Ceph project "Creation of a CephFS Shell and CLI Tool" and hence had filled the application form for the same. As part of the initial step "start up a Ceph cluster" i have created a Ceph cluster. I have used ceph-deploy tool to create Ceph cluster, and a Ceph client(filesystem). Followed, the documentation in [1][2][3][4]. The setup has 4 centos 7.4 VMs running on Fedora 27 host. One of the nodes is admin-node and the others are osd,mon,mgr node. Have used one of these nodes in the cluster as client node and have created a Ceph file system mount. Here are the details of the cluster: [root@vm2 ~]# ceph status cluster dc1e5542-eb3f-49a7-99fb-bc00f96c91ab health HEALTH_OK monmap e1: 1 mons at {vm3=192.168.100.132:6789/0} election epoch 3, quorum 0 vm3 fsmap e5: 1/1/1 up {0=vm1.localhost.net=up:active} osdmap e24: 3 osds: 3 up, 3 in flags sortbitwise,require_jewel_osds pgmap v54: 66 pgs, 3 pools, 2068 bytes data, 20 objects 103 MB used, 3007 MB / 3110 MB avail 66 active+clean [root@vm2 ~]# [root@vm2 ~]# ceph fs ls name: cephfs, metadata pool: cephfs_metadata, data pools: [cephfs_data ] [root@vm2 ~]# date Tue Mar 27 03:02:32 EDT 2018 [root@vm2 ~]# df -h ... 192.168.100.132:6789:/ 3.1G 104M 3.0G 4% /mnt/mycephfs [root@vm2 ~]# Initially i had faced some issues with deploy, that was because i had used fedora host as the admin node, and there was mismatch in the ceph-release package. I then shifted the admin node to another centos VM, then the installation was smooth. Here is the link to the install log from the admin node[5] . I am currently working on the second task " create and run a simple C program that uses the libcephfs library in some way.". Will post the patch, soon. [1] http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/start/ [2] http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/start/quick-start-preflight/ [3] http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/start/quick-ceph-deploy/ [4] http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/start/quick-cephfs/ [5] https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/Sc5KeFJPihIcqq8mBvFFNw Thanks, Ranjitha.