We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and Red Hat Ceph Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"It has helped to save money and scale the storage without limits."
"Without any extra costs, I was able to provide a redundant environment."
"The community support is very good."
"The ability to provide block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster is very valuable for us."
"Red Hat Ceph Storage is a reliable solution, it works well."
"What I found most valuable from Red Hat Ceph Storage is integration because if you are talking about a solution that consists purely of Red Hat products, this is where integration benefits come in. In particular, Red Hat Ceph Storage becomes a single solution for managing the entire environment in terms of the container or the infrastructure, or the worker nodes because it all comes from a single plug."
"radosgw and librados provide a simple integration with clone, snapshots, and other functions that aid in data integrity."
"We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"The initial setup is complex."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication."
"An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions."
"It took me a long time to get the storage drivers for the communication with Kubernetes up and running. The documentation could improve it is lacking information. I'm not sure if this is a Ceph problem or if Ceph should address this, but it was something I ran into. Additionally, there is a performance issue I am having that I am looking into, but overall I am satisfied with the performance."
"I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery."
"We have encountered slight integration issues."
"It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed."
"The storage capacity of the solution can be improved."
"Some documentation is very hard to find."
Dell VPLEX is ranked 2nd in Storage Management with 18 reviews while Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 22 reviews. Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell VPLEX writes "It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Provides block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster". Dell VPLEX is most compared with IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM SAN Volume Control, NetApp OnCommand and Huawei OceanStor DJ, whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and NetApp StorageGRID.
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