Top 6 advantage of Ceph Storage Solution ?

Ceph Storage is highly scalable storage solution. Storage is very important nowadays. Ceph has the capability to store all three types of data storage i.e., object store, block store and file based store. It has distributed storage option due to which the load will be distributed and provide the best possible performance even from low config hardware. There are some major benefits of Ceph due to which many major vendors choose ceph has their storage option.

• Replication – In ceph storage, all the data are automatically copied from one node to another node. So even one node is failed it will work from other node automatically. So the data can be retried at any point of time. This is the great feature in cloud hosting.
• Protection – In ceph storage it uses erasure coded pools. It is a data protection mechanism where the data is broken into small fragments, encoded and stored in distributed manner. It provides additional data protection to uses.
• Snaphshots – Ceph offers facility to store snapshots in its storage space. Snapshots are images of virtual machines. Using snapshot VM can be recreated at any point of time.
• Thin provisioning – Ceph uses thin provisioning option to efficiently store the data. It make sure the storage space is not occupied until the data is saved.
• Open Source – It is a open source technology which will help many vendors to lower the cost in storage option.
• Unified Storage – Ceph offers technology to save all three types of storage like block storage, file storage and image storage. Hence it is highly flexible.