Ceph in Proxmox: When Hyperconverged Storage Actually Makes Sense at Home
Ceph shows up in every “how do I get real shared storage for my Proxmox cluster” conversation, and for good reason, it’s the one option that’s fully native, fully integrated into the Proxmox web UI, and genuinely production-grade software running underneath some very large real-world deployments. It’s also the option most likely to leave a home cluster worse off than before you added it, because Ceph’s design assumptions (plenty of nodes, plenty of network, plenty of dedicated drives) don’t bend easily to a 3-node home lab built from whatever hardware was on hand. Here’s what Ceph actually is inside Proxmox, what it needs to run well, and when it’s the right call instead of the simpler alternatives. ...