- Ceph provides flexible, scalable, and open source storage capabilities through its RADOS distributed object store and various services like RADOS Gateway (RGW), RADOS Block Device (RBD), and CephFS.
- RBD allows for efficient provisioning of block storage volumes for virtual machines (VMs) and containers using copy-on-write cloning of base images stored in Glance. This enables live migration and thousands of instant VMs.
- Cinder leverages RBD to provide persistent block storage volumes to Nova that are decoupled from compute hosts, allowing migration without data movement for high performance and efficiency at scale.