It is advisable to run an odd-number of monitors but not mandatory. An odd-number of monitors has a higher resiliency to failures than an even-number of monitors. For instance, on a 2 monitor deployment, no failures can be tolerated in order to maintain a quorum; with 3 monitors, one failure can be tolerated; in a 4 monitor deployment, one failure can be tolerated; with 5 monitors, two failures can be tolerated. This is why an odd-number is advisable. Summarizing, Ceph needs a majority of monitors to be running (and able to communicate with each other), but that majority can be achieved using a single monitor, or 2 out of 2 monitors, 2 out of 3, 3 out of 4, etc.
В общем как не раз обсуждалось, от четного кол-ва вы не получите плюс в сравнении с нечетными :)