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2 Overview of Red Hat Ceph Storage
A Ceph storage cluster is built from large numbers of Ceph nodes for scalability, fault-tolerance, and
performance. Each node is based on commodity hardware and uses intelligent Ceph daemons that
communicate with each other to:
 Store and retrieve data
 Replicate data
 Monitor and report on cluster health
 Redistribute data dynamically (remap and backfill)
 Ensure data integrity (scrubbing)
 Detect and recover from faults and failures
Red Hat Ceph Storage provides an effective way for enterprise block and object storage techniques,
supports archival, rich media, and cloud infrastructure workloads such as OpenStack. A few advantages of
Red Hat Ceph Storage are listed in Figure 2:
 Recognized industry leadership in open source software support services and online support
 Only stable, production-ready code, vs. a mix of interim, experimental code
 Consistent quality; packaging available through Red Hat Satellite
 Well-defined, infrequent, hardened, curated, committed 3-year lifespan with strict policies
 Timely, tested patches with clearly-defined, documented, and supported migration path
 Backed by Red Hat Product Security
 Red Hat Certification & Quality Assurance Programs
 Red Hat Knowledgebase (articles, tech briefs, videos, documentation), Automated Services
Red Hat Ceph Storage
Red Hat Ceph Storage significantly lowers the cost of storing enterprise data and helps organizations
manage exponential data growth. The software is a robust, petabyte-scale storage platform for those
deploying public or private clouds. As a modern storage system for cloud deployments, Red Hat Ceph