Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Installing and Configuring Ceph

Ceph is a distributed, highly scalable storage system which provides block, object, and file-based storage in the same storage cluster. Ceph is open source and designed to run on off the shelf commodity hardware. Currently, Ceph RADOS Block Device (RBD) block storage is fully supported by Proxmox. The Ceph Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store (RADOS) provides features such as replication, snapshot, and other block storage abilities. There are numerous reasons to consider Ceph as a storage backend. The following are some of the highlights of why one should consider Ceph over other storage systems:

• Ceph is free
• Ceph is a highly scalable, reliable, distributed storage system
• Ceph RBD is seamlessly integrated ...