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title: "CephFS"
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updated: 2023-03-02T01:40:43Z
published: 2023-03-02T01:40:43Z
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# CephFS

The Ceph File System (CephFS) is a POSIX-compliant file system built on top of Ceph’s distributed object storage. CephFS provides a state-of-the-art, highly available, multiuse and performant file storage for a variety of applications, including traditional use-cases like shared home directories, HPC scratch space, and distributed workflow shared storage. Workloads linearly scale with the size of the underlying hardware, as we expand the cluster the performance increases.

The use cases for CephFS commonly include:

- File Storage in Windows & Linux Systems
- Backup Storage
- Large File Storage

Our current platform is built using Hybrid SAS Mechanical Disks with All-Flash cashing disks in each Node.

**We do not allow CephS Volumes to be used as Virtual Machine Primary Storage, please use our iSCSI Block Storage Product. This includes the following but is not limited to:

- Windows HyperV
- VMware vSphere
- KVM
- XEN
- Kubernetes POD Storage  
  
Further information on Ceph storage can be found [in the official Ceph documentation](https://docs.ceph.com/en/quincy/start/intro/).

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