ceph/doc/rados/deployment/ceph-deploy-mon.rst
Jens-Christian Fischer af1dee5a29 doc: clarify that mons must have qurorum during deploy
If multiple mons are specified in 'ceph-deploy new', but less than
those necessary for quorum are started with 'ceph-deploy mon create',
later steps (like 'ceph-deploy gatherkeys') will fail.
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Add/Remove Monitors
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With ``ceph-deploy``, adding and removing monitors is a simple task. You just
add or remove one or more monitors on the command line with one command. Before
``ceph-deploy``, the process of `adding and removing monitors`_ involved
numerous manual steps. Using ``ceph-deploy`` imposes a restriction: **you may
only install one monitor per host.**
.. note:: We do not recommend comingling monitors and OSDs on
the same host.
For high availability, you should run a production Ceph cluster with **AT
LEAST** three monitors. Ceph uses the Paxos algorithm, which requires a
consensus among the majority of monitors in a quorum. With Paxos, the monitors
cannot determine a majority for establishing a quorum with only two monitors. A
majority of monitors must be counted as such: 1:1, 2:3, 3:4, 3:5, 4:6, etc.
See `Monitor Config Reference`_ for details on configuring monitors.
Add a Monitor
=============
Once you create a cluster and install Ceph packages to the monitor host(s), you
may deploy the monitor(s) to the monitor host(s). When using ``ceph-deploy``,
the tool enforces a single monitor per host. ::
ceph-deploy mon create {host-name [host-name]...}
.. note:: Ensure that you add monitors such that they may arrive at a consensus
among a majority of monitors, otherwise other steps (like ``ceph-deploy gatherkeys``)
will fail.
.. note:: When adding a monitor on a host that was not in hosts intially defined
with the ``ceph-deploy new`` command, a ``public network`` statement needs
to be be added to the ceph.conf file.
Remove a Monitor
================
If you have a monitor in your cluster that you'd like to remove, you may use
the ``destroy`` option. ::
ceph-deploy mon destroy {host-name [host-name]...}
.. note:: Ensure that if you remove a monitor, the remaining monitors will be
able to establish a consensus. If that is not possible, consider adding a
monitor before removing the monitor you would like to take offline.
.. _adding and removing monitors: ../../operations/add-or-rm-mons
.. _Monitor Config Reference: ../../configuration/mon-config-ref