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Getting Started

Clyso Enterprise Storage (CES) delivers object, block, and file storage in one unified system. Powered by Ceph technology.

To get started with CES, cephadm is the preferred utility to manage a ceph cluster.

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Systemd
  • Podman or Docker for running containers
  • Time synchronization (such as Chrony or the legacy ntpd)
  • LVM2 for provisioning storage devices

For hardware recommendations see Hardware Recommendations. For compatibility with podman see Cephadm compatibility with podman.