We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Red Hat Ceph Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"A very flexible solution."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment."
"We are using Ceph internal inexpensive disk and data redundancy without spending extra money on external storage."
"Most of the features are beneficial and one does not stand out above the rest."
"It's a very performance-intensive, brilliant storage system, and I always recommend it to customers based on its benefits, performance, and scalability."
"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."
"The community support is very good."
"Most valuable features include replication and compression."
"High reliability with commodity hardware."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"Routing around slow hardware."
"I have encountered issues with stability when replication factor was not 3, which is the default and recommended value. Go below 3 and problems will arise."
"This product uses a lot of CPU and network bandwidth. It needs some deduplication features and to use delta for rebalancing."
"It takes some time to re-balance the storage in case of server failure."
"Ceph is not a mature product at this time. Guides are misleading and incomplete. You will meet all kind of bugs and errors trying to install the system for the first time. It requires very experienced personnel to support and keep the system in working condition, and install all necessary packets."
"It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed."
"In the deployment step, we need to create some config files to add Ceph functions in OpenStack modules (Nova, Cinder, Glance). It would be useful to have a tool that validates the format of the data in those files, before generating a deploy with failures."
"The storage capacity of the solution can be improved."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 22 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Provides block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StarWind Virtual Tape Library, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and NetApp StorageGRID.
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