Ceph Distributed Storage System: Architecture, Components, Working Principles, and Faulty OSD Lifecycle Management

Abstract

The exponential growth of data in modern computing environments has led to the widespread adoption of distributed storage systems. Ceph is an open-source, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed storage platform designed to provide object, block, and file storage within a unified system. Its architecture eliminates single points of failure and enables seamless scalability across commodity hardware.