Creating images

You can create block device images on the IBM Storage Ceph dashboard.

Before you begin

Before you begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites in place:

A running IBM Storage Ceph cluster.
Dashboard is installed.
A pool with the rbd application enabled is created.

About this task

For more information, see the following:

Procedure

From the dashboard navigation, go to Block > Images.
From the Images tab, click Create.
In the Create RBD form, fill in the form.
Optional: Click Advanced to set advanced parameters, such as Striping and Quality of Service.
Click Create RBD.
A notification displays that the image was created successfully.