How to list the pools in a Ceph cluster?

Environment

• Red Hat Ceph Enterprise 1.2.3

• Red Hat Ceph Enterprise 1.3

Issue

• How to list the pools in a Ceph cluster?

Resolution

• To list all the pools in the Ceph cluster:

# ceph osd lspools

• To create a script that will loop on all the pools, it can be more convenient to use:

# rados lspools

• To have detailed information on each pool configuration (replication size, number of placement groups, etc.), use:

# ceph osd dump | grep pool

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