Build, Benchmark and Expand a Ceph Storage Cluster using CephADM: Part 1
Ready to Build Your Own High-Performance Ceph Storage Cluster?
Welcome to Part 1 of our deep-dive series on building, benchmarking, and expanding a blazing-fast Ceph storage cluster using CephADM — the modern, containerized approach to Ceph orchestration.
In this episode, we’ll walk you step-by-step through the process of bootstrapping a 5-node all-NVMe Ceph cluster with 100Gb networking — all using CephADM on our F16 Stornado servers. Whether you’re a homelab enthusiast, system admin, or enterprise storage architect, this video is your ultimate starting point.
Perfect for anyone looking to:
Build a scalable Ceph cluster in their homelab or data center
Understand the benefits of CephADM and containerized services
Learn how to expand and monitor Ceph using Houston UI and SSH tunneling
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro & What is CephADM
02:03 – Why 45Drives is shifting to CephADM
04:10 – Installing & bootstrapping the first node
09:30 – Building the cluster dashboard with 5 nodes
15:47 – Adding OSDs and services (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
21:26 – Under-the-hood container breakdown
27:01 – Cluster health & what’s next
Check out the article on the video series at Blocks and FIles: https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/07/25...
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