Removing failed or unwanted Ceph Object Storage devices

The failed or unwanted Ceph OSDs (Object Storage Devices) affects the performance of the storage infrastructure. Hence, to improve the reliability and resilience of the storage cluster, you must remove the failed or unwanted Ceph OSDs.

If you have any failed or unwanted Ceph OSDs to remove:

1. Verify the Ceph health status.

   For more information see: Verifying Ceph cluster is healthy.

2. Based on the provisioning of the OSDs, remove failed or unwanted Ceph OSDs.

   See:

   • Removing failed or unwanted Ceph OSDs in dynamically provisioned Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation.

   • Removing failed or unwanted Ceph OSDs provisioned using local storage devices.