Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide
excellent performance, reliability and scalability.
-.Some of the advantages of Ceph are:
-- Easy setup and management with CLI and GUI support on Proxmox VE
+.Some advantages of Ceph on {pve} are:
+- Easy setup and management with CLI and GUI support
- Thin provisioning
- Snapshots support
- Self healing
-- No single point of failure
- Scalable to the exabyte level
- Setup pools with different performance and redundancy characteristics
- Data is replicated, making it fault tolerant
- Runs on economical commodity hardware
- No need for hardware RAID controllers
-- Easy management
- Open source
For small to mid sized deployments, it is possible to install a Ceph server for