storage cluster. See also :term:`RBD`.
Ceph Block Storage
- The block storage "product," service or capabilities when used
- in conjunction with ``librbd``, a hypervisor such as QEMU or
- Xen, and a hypervisor abstraction layer such as ``libvirt``.
+ One of the three kinds of storage supported by Ceph (the other
+ two are object storage and file storage). Ceph Block Storage is
+ the block storage "product", which refers to block-storage
+ related services and capabilities when used in conjunction with
+ the collection of (1) ``librbd`` (a python module that provides
+ file-like access to :term:`RBD` images), (2) a hypervisor such
+ as QEMU or Xen, and (3) a hypervisor abstraction layer such as
+ ``libvirt``.
Ceph Client
The collection of Ceph components which can access a Ceph