-http://ceph.com[Ceph] is a distributed object store and file system designed to
-provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability. CephFS implements a
-POSIX-compliant filesystem storage, with the following advantages:
-
-* thin provisioning
-* distributed and redundant (striped over multiple OSDs)
-* snapshot capabilities
-* self healing
-* no single point of failure
-* scalable to the exabyte level
-* kernel and user space implementation available
-
-NOTE: For smaller deployments, it is also possible to run Ceph
-services directly on your {pve} nodes. Recent hardware has plenty
-of CPU power and RAM, so running storage services and VMs on same node
-is possible.
+CephFS implements a POSIX-compliant filesystem using a http://ceph.com[Ceph]
+storage cluster to store its data. As CephFS builds on Ceph it shares most of
+its properties, this includes redundancy, scalability, self healing and high
+availability.
+
+TIP: {pve} can xref:chapter_pveceph[manage ceph setups], which makes
+configuring a CephFS storage easier. As recent hardware has plenty of CPU power
+and RAM, running storage services and VMs on same node is possible without a
+big performance impact.
+
+To use the CephFS storage plugin you need update the debian stock Ceph client.
+Add our Ceph repository xref:sysadmin_package_repositories_ceph[Ceph repository].
+Once added, run an `apt update` and `apt dist-upgrade` cycle to get the newest
+packages.
+
+You need to make sure that there is no other Ceph repository configured,
+otherwise the installation will fail or there will be mixed package
+versions on the node, leading to unexpected behavior.