Ceph From the Dashboard

Ceph is the gold standard for distributed storage — and famously unfriendly to set up. WolfStack puts the whole lifecycle in the dashboard: install the packages, bootstrap a cluster, add disks, carve out pools, and serve CephFS filesystems or RBD block images, all without memorising ceph CLI incantations.

What You Can Do

Task	From the dashboard
Install & bootstrap	WolfStack checks which Ceph components are installed per node, installs what's missing (with your confirmation — nothing installs silently), and bootstraps a new cluster.
OSDs (disks)	Lists eligible devices per node, creates OSDs on them, removes OSDs, and handles day-2 actions: mark in/out, reweight.
Pools	Create, tune (replica size and options) and delete pools.
CephFS	Create and remove CephFS filesystems — mountable from any node or shared onward via Shares.
RBD images	List, create and delete RADOS block images per pool — handy as VM disk backends.
Monitors & managers	Add and manage extra mon and mgr daemons for high availability, and start/stop/restart Ceph daemons per node.
Fix & repair	Day-2 recovery without the CLI: set and clear cluster flags (noout and friends), scrub and repair placement groups, run the balancer, and repair OSDs.
Health & recovery	The cluster status view shows overall health, monitor quorum, OSD states, MDS (CephFS metadata) status and live recovery/backfill progress, with capacity at a glance.

When to Use Ceph vs the Alternatives

• Ceph — three or more nodes, lots of disks, and you want self-healing replicated storage with block, file and object access. The heavyweight champion; needs RAM and patience.
• WolfDisk — our lighter-weight replicated filesystem. Far simpler to run for small clusters that just want shared, replicated directories.
• Storage Array — single-node parity arrays (mdadm/NoNRAID) when the redundancy you need is within one box.

Try this on your own servers

WolfStack is free for personal use and installs in about two minutes — one command, no agents, works on any Linux server or Raspberry Pi.

Running it at work? Commercial licences start small and fund development.