Ceph is an open-source distributed software platform 1 2. It mainly focuses on scale-out file system including storage distribution and availability. Ceph Cluster Overview. [Source] Ceph Cluster Overview. [Source] Ceph Cluster Overview. [Source] A ceph storage cluster roughly consists of three components: Ceph Storage Nodes: equip physical storage media, and Ceph Object Storage Daemons (OSDs, or ceph-osd), Ceph Monitors (ceph-mon), and Ceph Managers (ceph-mgr) manage them.