[ceph-users] Re: Influencing the osd.id when creating or replacing an osd

Yes, but it's irritating. Ideally, I'd like my OSD IDs and hostnames to track so that if a server going pong I can find it and fix it ASAP

`ceph osd tree down` etc. (including alertmanager rules and Grafana panels) arguably make that faster and easier than everyone having to memorize OSD numbers, especially as the clusters grow.

But it doesn't take much maintenance to break that scheme and the only thing more painful than renaming a Ceph host is re-numbering an OSD.

Yep!

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My advice: Do not try to manually number your OSDs.

This. I’ve been there myself, but it’s truly a sisyphean goal.