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Ceph is a distributed storage system that provides object (RGW), block (RBD), and file (CephFS) storage in a single platform. It is designed for scalability, high availability, and self-healing.
- Large-scale, highly available storage clusters.
- Mixed workloads (object, block, file) from one platform.
- Cloud and virtualization backends.
- Self-healing and self-managing storage.
- Scales horizontally across commodity hardware.
- Multiple storage interfaces (S3/Swift, block, POSIX file).