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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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Pros
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory.""The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure.""It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions.""Its technical support is excellent.""The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable.""The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"

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"It's very easy to upgrade storage.""The technical support team is excellent.""The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided."

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Cons
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring.""Documentation management could be improved""It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes.""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.""I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."

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"The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage.""The user interface could be simplified.""The performance of the solution must be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "With the data center licensing and everything that is connected to that, this solution is relatively costly."
  • "Cost-wise the product is one of the more affordable within the category of products."
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  • "If you need cheap storage, but still need high availability, it's a good product to look at."
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    Also Known As
    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.

    Sample Customers
    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
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Government10%
    Company Size
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    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise54%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews while Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6, while Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". 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 IBM Spectrum Scale, 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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