================= Welcome to Ceph ================= Ceph uniquely delivers **object, block, and file storage in one unified system**. Ceph is highly reliable, easy to manage, and free. The power of Ceph can transform your company’s IT infrastructure and your ability to manage vast amounts of data. Ceph delivers extraordinary scalability--thousands of clients accessing petabytes to exabytes of data. Ceph leverages commodity hardware and intelligent daemons to accommodate large numbers of storage hosts, which communicate with each other to replicate data, and redistribute data dynamically. Ceph's cluster of monitors oversees the hosts in the Ceph storage cluster to ensure that the storage hosts are running smoothly. .. image:: images/stack.png .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 :hidden: start/index install/index config-cluster/index init/index cephfs/index rbd/rbd ops/index rec/index config control api/index source/index Internals man/index architecture faq papers appendix/index