Ceph Storage

Introduction

Reference Documentation

Full generic documentation for Ceph, from the developers of Ceph, is available at Ceph.

Note

The text below describes how Ceph is implemented in CloudCIX. Other Cloud providers may deploy it differently.

What is Ceph

Ceph is open source software designed to provide highly scalable object and block based storage under a unified system.

In CloudCIX, Ceph is used to implement…

• Rados Block Device (RBD) is a reliable and fully distributed block device, with a Linux kernel client and a QEMU/KVM driver.

• RadosGW is a bucket-based REST gateway, compatible with S3 and Swift.