ArchitectureEdit online Get to know the architecture information for Ceph Storage Clusters and their clients. Ceph architectureIBM Storage Ceph cluster is a distributed data object store designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability. The power of IBM Storage Ceph cluster can transform your organization’s IT infrastructure and your ability to manage vast amounts of data, especially for cloud computing platforms like Red Hat Enterprise Linux OSP. The cluster delivers extraordinary scalability–thousands of clients accessing petabytes to exabytes of data and beyond.Ceph client componentsCeph clients differ materially in how they present data storage interfaces. A Ceph Block Device presents block storage that mounts just like a physical storage drive. A Ceph gateway presents an object storage service with S3-compliant and Swift-compliant RESTful interfaces with its own user management. However, all Ceph clients use the Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store (RADOS) protocol to interact with the IBM Storage Ceph cluster.Core Ceph componentsAn IBM Storage Ceph cluster can have a large number of Ceph nodes for limitless scalability, high availability and performance. Use this information to learn how CRUSH enables Ceph to perform seamless operations.Parent topic: Overview