€0
License costs
PB+
Scalable
3x
Data replication
99.999%
Availability
Features
Powerful Capabilities
Ceph offers enterprise storage functionality without enterprise costs
RADOS Block Device
High-performance block storage backend for VMs and containers.
CephFS
Distributed filesystem for shared storage between nodes.
Object Storage (RGW)
S3-compatible object storage for cloud-native applications.
Self-Healing
Automatic data recovery during disk or node failures.
Horizontally Scalable
Grow from 3 nodes to hundreds with linear performance.
Included in Proxmox
Fully integrated in Proxmox VE without extra license costs.
Introduction
What is Ceph?
Ceph is an open-source, software-defined storage platform that combines block, file and object storage in one scalable infrastructure. Integrated in Proxmox VE, Ceph forms a powerful and cost-efficient storage solution — without external SAN or NAS.
Integration
Hyperconverged with Proxmox
Proxmox VE includes native Ceph integration. Storage is managed directly from the Proxmox web interface. Compute and storage run on the same hosts — no separate storage arrays, no complex SAN configurations.
- RBD: high-performance block storage for VM disks
- CephFS: distributed filesystem for shared data
- RGW: S3-compatible object storage
- Management fully via the Proxmox web interface
Comparison
Ceph vs VMware vSAN
Where VMware vSAN requires expensive per-CPU licenses and is limited to the VMware ecosystem, Ceph is completely free, runs on commodity hardware and offers more storage types (block, file and object).
- License costs: Ceph free vs vSAN per-CPU license
- Hardware: commodity servers vs limited HCL
- Storage types: block + file + object vs only block
- Scalability: petabytes vs typically < 1PB
- Vendor lock-in: none (open source) vs VMware ecosystem
Services
Our Ceph Services
We design and implement Ceph storage clusters that fit your workload requirements — from small 3-node clusters to enterprise deployments with hundreds of OSDs.
- Ceph cluster design and implementation
- Performance tuning and OSD optimization
- Migration from traditional SAN/NAS to Ceph
- Monitoring, maintenance and capacity planning
Benefits
Why Ceph with Proxmox?
No License Costs
Completely free and included in Proxmox VE. No costs per TB or CPU.
Self-Healing
Automatic recovery during disk or node failures — without manual intervention.
Unlimited Scalable
From 3 nodes to petabytes of storage with linear performance growth.
Flexible Hardware
Use commodity servers. Mix of SSD and HDD, NVMe supported.