Cloud Disk Array - Criação de pool (EN)

--- title: Cloud Disk Array - Criação de pool (EN) excerpt: This guide shows you how to create a pool using the OVHcloud Control Panel or API updated: 2025-05-06

Objective

This guide shows you how to create a pool, using the OVHcloud Control Panel or the OVHcloud API.

Requirements

• A Cloud Disk Array solution

OVHcloud Control Panel Access

• Direct link: Cloud Disk Array
• Navigation path: Bare Metal Cloud > Cloud Disk Array > Select your service

Instructions

Using the OVHcloud Control Panel

On your Cloud Disk Array service page, you will find the existing pools in Pools.

Enter a poolname. It must contain at least three characters.

You can then see that the cluster status has changed because the pool is being created.

Using the API

Use the following API call to create a pool:

serviceName is the fsid of your cluster.

You can check the pool creation by listing pools with the following endpoint:

For example:

GET /dedicated/ceph/98d166d8-7c88-47b7-9cb6-63acd5a59c15/pool
[
{
  replicaCount: 3
  serviceName: "98d166d8-7c88-47b7-9cb6-63acd5a59c15"
  name: "rbd"
  minActiveReplicas: 2
  poolType: "REPLICATED"
  backup: false
},
{
  replicaCount: 3
  serviceName: "98d166d8-7c88-47b7-9cb6-63acd5a59c15"
  name: "testpool"
  minActiveReplicas: 2
  poolType: "REPLICATED"
  backup: true
  }
]

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