Red Hat Ceph Storage can utilize flash technology to accelerate applications in three ways: 1) use all flash storage for highest performance, 2) use a hybrid configuration with performance critical data on flash tier and colder data on HDD tier, or 3) utilize host caching of critical data on flash. Benchmark results showed that using NVMe SSDs in Ceph provided much higher performance than SATA SSDs, with speed increases of up to 8x for some workloads. However, testing also showed that Ceph may not be well-suited for OLTP MySQL workloads due to small random reads/writes, as local SSD storage outperformed the Ceph cluster. Proper Linux tuning is also needed to maximize SSD performance within