diff --git a/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/drbd.pp b/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/drbd.pp
index c7f653f0e2..00696ff36a 100644
--- a/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/drbd.pp
+++ b/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/drbd.pp
@@ -259,13 +259,6 @@ class platform::drbd::extension (
     mountpoint => $mountpoint,
     resync_after => $resync_after,
   }
-
-  file { "${mountpoint}/ceph":
-    ensure => 'directory',
-    owner  => 'root',
-    group  => 'root',
-    mode   => '0775',
-  }
 }
 
 class platform::drbd::patch_vault::params (
diff --git a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/api/controllers/v1/storage_ceph_external.py b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/api/controllers/v1/storage_ceph_external.py
index 375babef2f..8ed71d1eea 100644
--- a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/api/controllers/v1/storage_ceph_external.py
+++ b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/api/controllers/v1/storage_ceph_external.py
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ class StorageCephExternalController(rest.RestController):
             LOG.exception(e)
             return dict(
                     success="",
-                    error=str(e))
+                    error=e.value)
 
         return dict(success="Success: ceph config file is uploaded", error="")
 
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ def _check_and_update_services(storage_ceph_ext):
 
             if sb_list:
                 for sb in sb_list:
-                    if (sb.isystem_uuid != storage_ceph_ext.get("isystem_uuid", None) and
+                    if (sb.uuid != storage_ceph_ext.get("uuid", None) and
                         sb.backend in [constants.SB_TYPE_CEPH,
                                        constants.SB_TYPE_CEPH_EXTERNAL] and
                             s in sb.get('services')):
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ def _check_backend_ceph_external(storage_ceph_ext):
         backend_name = storage_ceph_ext.get('name')
         backend_list = pecan.request.dbapi.storage_backend_get_list()
         for backend in backend_list:
-            if backend.isystem_uuid != storage_ceph_ext.get("isystem_uuid", None):
+            if backend.uuid != storage_ceph_ext.get("uuid", None):
                 if backend_name in constants.SB_DEFAULT_NAMES.values():
                     msg = _(
                         "The \"%s\" name is reserved for internally managed "
diff --git a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/conductor/manager.py b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/conductor/manager.py
index 0729f6ce88..4b236703fd 100644
--- a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/conductor/manager.py
+++ b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/conductor/manager.py
@@ -9547,16 +9547,20 @@ class ConductorManager(service.PeriodicService):
     def store_ceph_external_config(self, context, contents, ceph_conf_filename):
         """Store the uploaded external ceph config file in /opt/platform/config
         """
-        ## Once this directory is created at installation time, we can
-        ## remove this code.
+        # Once this directory is created at installation time, we can
+        # remove this code.
         if not os.path.exists(tsc.PLATFORM_CEPH_CONF_PATH):
             os.makedirs(tsc.PLATFORM_CEPH_CONF_PATH)
         opt_ceph_conf_file = os.path.join(tsc.PLATFORM_CEPH_CONF_PATH,
                                           ceph_conf_filename)
 
+        # Because user needs root permission to manually delete ceph config file
+        # from /opt/platform/config/version/ceph-config directory if the file
+        # already exists, we will allow ceph config file to be overwritten.
+        # Thus, we won't raise an exception if the file already exists.
         if os.path.exists(opt_ceph_conf_file):
-            raise exception.SysinvException(_(
-                "Same external ceph config file already exists."))
+            LOG.info("Overwriting file %s in %s " %
+                     (ceph_conf_filename, tsc.PLATFORM_CEPH_CONF_PATH))
 
         try:
             with open(opt_ceph_conf_file, 'w+') as f:
diff --git a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/db/api.py b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/db/api.py
index 9445c3b8b8..cb53c69c6c 100644
--- a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/db/api.py
+++ b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/db/api.py
@@ -2546,7 +2546,7 @@ class Connection(object):
         :param stor_ceph_ext_id: The id or uuid of a ceph storage backend.
         :param values: Dict of values to update.
                        {
-                        'ceph_conf': '/opt/extension/ceph/3p_ceph1.conf'
+                        'ceph_conf': '3p_ceph1.conf'
                        }
         :returns: An external ceph storage backend.
         """