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1 | ================= |
| 2 | Welcome to Ceph | |
| 3 | ================= | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | Ceph uniquely delivers **object, block, and file storage in one unified | |
| 6 | system**. | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | .. raw:: html | |
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| 10 | <style type="text/css">div.body h3{margin:5px 0px 0px 0px;}</style> | |
| 11 | <table cellpadding="10"><colgroup><col width="33%"><col width="33%"><col width="33%"></colgroup><tbody valign="top"><tr><td><h3>Ceph Object Store</h3> | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | - RESTful Interface | |
| 14 | - S3- and Swift-compliant APIs | |
| 15 | - S3-style subdomains | |
| 16 | - Unified S3/Swift namespace | |
| 17 | - User management | |
| 18 | - Usage tracking | |
| 19 | - Striped objects | |
| 20 | - Cloud solution integration | |
| 21 | - Multi-site deployment | |
| 224ce89b | 22 | - Multi-site replication |
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23 | |
| 24 | .. raw:: html | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | </td><td><h3>Ceph Block Device</h3> | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | ||
| 29 | - Thin-provisioned | |
| 30 | - Images up to 16 exabytes | |
| 31 | - Configurable striping | |
| 32 | - In-memory caching | |
| 33 | - Snapshots | |
| 34 | - Copy-on-write cloning | |
| 35 | - Kernel driver support | |
| 36 | - KVM/libvirt support | |
| 37 | - Back-end for cloud solutions | |
| 38 | - Incremental backup | |
| 224ce89b | 39 | - Disaster recovery (multisite asynchronous replication) |
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40 | |
| 41 | .. raw:: html | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | </td><td><h3>Ceph Filesystem</h3> | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | - POSIX-compliant semantics | |
| 46 | - Separates metadata from data | |
| 47 | - Dynamic rebalancing | |
| 48 | - Subdirectory snapshots | |
| 224ce89b | 49 | - Configurable striping |
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50 | - Kernel driver support |
| 51 | - FUSE support | |
| 52 | - NFS/CIFS deployable | |
| 53 | - Use with Hadoop (replace HDFS) | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | .. raw:: html | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | </td></tr><tr><td> | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | See `Ceph Object Store`_ for additional details. | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | .. raw:: html | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | </td><td> | |
| 64 | ||
| 65 | See `Ceph Block Device`_ for additional details. | |
| 66 | ||
| 67 | .. raw:: html | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | </td><td> | |
| 70 | ||
| 71 | See `Ceph Filesystem`_ for additional details. | |
| 72 | ||
| 73 | .. raw:: html | |
| 74 | ||
| 75 | </td></tr></tbody></table> | |
| 76 | ||
| 77 | Ceph is highly reliable, easy to manage, and free. The power of Ceph | |
| 78 | can transform your company's IT infrastructure and your ability to manage vast | |
| 79 | amounts of data. To try Ceph, see our `Getting Started`_ guides. To learn more | |
| 80 | about Ceph, see our `Architecture`_ section. | |
| 81 | ||
| 82 | ||
| 83 | ||
| 84 | .. _Ceph Object Store: radosgw | |
| 85 | .. _Ceph Block Device: rbd/rbd | |
| 86 | .. _Ceph Filesystem: cephfs | |
| 87 | .. _Getting Started: start | |
| 88 | .. _Architecture: architecture | |
| 89 | ||
| 90 | .. toctree:: | |
| 91 | :maxdepth: 1 | |
| 92 | :hidden: | |
| 93 | ||
| 94 | start/intro | |
| 95 | start/index | |
| 96 | install/index | |
| 97 | rados/index | |
| 98 | cephfs/index | |
| 99 | rbd/rbd | |
| 100 | radosgw/index | |
| 101 | mgr/index | |
| 102 | api/index | |
| 103 | architecture | |
| 104 | Development <dev/index> | |
| 105 | release-notes | |
| 106 | releases | |
| 107 | Glossary <glossary> |