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Welcome to Ceph

Ceph uniquely delivers object, block, and file storage in one unified system.

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Ceph Object Store RESTful Interface S3- and Swift-compliant APIs S3-style subdomains Unified S3/Swift namespace User management Usage tracking Striped objects Cloud solution integration Multi-site deployment Multi-site replication	Ceph Block Device Thin-provisioned Images up to 16 exabytes Configurable striping In-memory caching Snapshots Copy-on-write cloning Kernel driver support KVM/libvirt support Back-end for cloud solutions Incremental backup Disaster recovery (multisite asynchronous replication)	Ceph Filesystem POSIX-compliant semantics Separates metadata from data Dynamic rebalancing Subdirectory snapshots Configurable striping Kernel driver support FUSE support NFS/CIFS deployable Use with Hadoop (replace HDFS)
See Ceph Object Store for additional details.	See Ceph Block Device for additional details.	See Ceph Filesystem for additional details.

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. To try Ceph, see our Getting Started guides. To learn more about Ceph, see our Architecture section.

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   start/intro
   start/index
   install/index
   start/kube-helm
   rados/index
   cephfs/index
   rbd/index
   radosgw/index
   mgr/index
   api/index
   architecture
   Developer Guide <dev/index>
   dev/internals
   governance
   ceph-volume/index
   releases/index
   Glossary <glossary>