How-to guides
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Our *how-to* guides give directions on how perform key operations and processes in MicroCeph.

Installing and initialising MicroCeph cluster
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The guides in this section are helpful in the installation and initialisation
of both single-node and multi-node clusters.

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   single-node
   multi-node

Configuring your cluster
------------------------

See these guides for client and network configurations, authentication service integration, and
configuration of metrics, alerts and other service instances.

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   rbd-client-cfg
   integrate-keystone
   configure-network-keys
   enable-metrics
   enable-alerts
   enable-service-instances

Interacting with your cluster
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Manage your cluster: find steps on how to configure the log level,remove disks,
migrate services and more.

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   change-log-level
   migrate-auto-services
   remove-disk

Managing a remote cluster
-------------------------

Make MicroCeph aware of a remote cluster and configure replication for
RBD pools and images.

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   import-remote-cluster
   configure-rbd-mirroring
   perform-site-failover

Upgrading your cluster
----------------------

Follow these steps carefully to perform a major upgrade.

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   major-upgrade

   
Consuming cluster storage
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Follow these guides to learn how to make use of the storage provided by your cluster.

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   mount-block-device
   mount-cephfs-share