resources. When setting up multiple pools, set an appropriate number of PGs
for each pool and for the cluster as a whole. Each PG belongs to a specific
pool: when multiple pools use the same OSDs, make sure that the **sum** of PG
- replicas per OSD is in the desired PG-per-OSD target range.
+ replicas per OSD is in the desired PG-per-OSD target range. See :ref:`Setting
+ the Number of Placement Groups <setting the number of placement groups>` for
+ instructions on how to manually set the number of placement groups per pool
+ (this procedure works only when the autoscaler is not used).
- **CRUSH Rules**: When data is stored in a pool, the placement of the object
and its replicas (or chunks, in the case of erasure-coded pools) in your