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Installing Ceph Components
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Storage clusters are the foundation of the Ceph file system, and they can also provide
object storage to ``librados``, ``rbd`` and ``radosgw``. The following sections 
provide guidance for configuring a storage cluster:

1. :doc:`Hardware Requirements <hardware_recommendations>`
2. :doc:`File System Requirements <file_system_recommendations>`
3. :doc:`Download Packages <download_packages>`
4. :doc:`Building Ceph from Source <building_ceph_from_source>`


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   Hardware Recs <hardware_recommendations>
   File System Recs <file_system_recommendations>
   Download Packages <download_packages>
   Build From Source <building_ceph_from_source>