Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct vs Red Hat Gluster Storage comparison

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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and Red Hat Gluster Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"Its technical support is excellent.""The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."

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"The technical support team is excellent."

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"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution.""It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."

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"The performance of the solution must be improved."

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Top Answer:We found VMware’s vSAN was easy to set up, configure, and manage compared to other solutions we considered. It is best suited for small- to medium-sized organizations. It is easy to create load… more »
Top Answer:It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution. In comparison, the process is easy for VMware and VSAN.
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MS Storage Spaces Direct
Red Hat Gluster, Red Hat Storage Server
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Overview

Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features like caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovation like RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivaled efficiency and performance.

Red Hat Gluster Storage (formerly known as Red Hat Storage Server) is a software-defined storage (SDS) platform designed to handle the requirements of traditional file storage—high-capacity tasks like backup and archival as well as high-performance tasks of analytics and virtualization. But unlike traditional storage systems, Red Hat Gluster Storage isn’t rigid and expensive. It easily scales across bare metal, virtual, container, and cloud deployments.

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Acuutech, Quest Technology Management, Bradley, Mead & Hunt
NTT Plala, McMaster University, University of Basque Country, Goodtech ASA, Cox Automotive, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), SaskTel, Glashart Media, Casio
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Computer Software Company17%
Comms Service Provider10%
Manufacturing Company9%
Government9%
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Computer Software Company18%
Financial Services Firm13%
Comms Service Provider13%
Government9%
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Small Business71%
Large Enterprise29%
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Small Business29%
Midsize Enterprise17%
Large Enterprise55%
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Midsize Enterprise16%
Large Enterprise62%
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Software Defined Storage (SDS)
November 2023
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Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews while Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 18th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.0, while Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable software storage solution that offers performance, reliability, and affordability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Gluster Storage writes "A scalable and easy-to-implement solution that has an excellent technical support team". Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, Red Hat Ceph Storage, LizardFS and StarWind Virtual SAN.

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