Create the logical volume to use as a cache
Here I use the space from my Proxmox boot SSD. If you have a dedicated SSD you can skip this section and add the whole device as
lvm physical volume
lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n cachedev pve
Edit /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
find line global_filter
Add a/dev/mapper/pve-cachedev|
entry to the existing ones.
Below is the example of the line
global_filter = [ "a|/dev/mapper/pve-cachedev|", "r|/dev/zd.*|", "r|/dev/mapper/pve-.*|" "r|/dev/mapper/.*-(vm|base)--[0-9]+--disk--[0-9]+|"]
Note: use lvdisplay
to get the names of your VG and LV
pvcreate /dev/mapper/pve-cachedev
VG=ceph-6e0a76c7-9c67-4f4b-bd63-523dd2ce3e9e
LV=osd-block-67d5264a-0933-4946-bdac-fa9f4a23326d
vgextend $VG /dev/mapper/pve-cachedev
lvcreate -L 130M -n cache_meta $VG /dev/mapper/pve-cachedev
pvdisplay /dev/mapper/pve-cachedev
lvcreate -L 130G -n cache $VG /dev/mapper/pve-cachedev
lvconvert --type cache-pool --cachemode writeback --poolmetadata $VG/cache_meta $VG/cache
lvconvert --type cache --cachepool $VG/cache $VG/$LV