Understanding the VSM architecture

In this recipe, we will quickly go through the architecture of VSM, which consists of the following components:

The VSM controller

VSM is a web-based application that is typically hosted on a controller machine, which is referred to as a VSM controller node. You can use a dedicated physical or virtual server that can act as a VSM controller node. The VSM controller software is the core component of VSM that connects to the Ceph cluster through VSM agents. The VSM controller gathers all the data coming from VSM agents and monitors the Ceph cluster. For operations such as cluster creation, pool creation, and so on, the VSM controller sends instructions to VSM agents to perform the required...