Creating namespaces

Create namespaces for the 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

Once the namespaces are created, you can give access to the users for those namespaces.

For more information, see the How to segregate RBD images within isolated namespaces in ceph? article on the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Procedure

  1. From the dashboard navigation, go to Block > Images.
  2. From the Namespaces tab, click Create.
  3. In the Create Namespace dialog, select the pool and enter a name for the namespace.
  4. Click Create.
    A notification displays that the namespace was created successfully.