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

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Pros
"It's a very performance-intensive, brilliant storage system, and I always recommend it to customers based on its benefits, performance, and scalability.""It has helped to save money and scale the storage without limits.""The community support is very good.""Without any extra costs, I was able to provide a redundant environment.""Most valuable features include replication and compression.""We have not encountered any stability issues for the product.""We use the solution for cloud storage.""The solution is pretty stable."

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

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Cons
"The management features are pretty good, but they still have room for improvement.""Rebalancing and recovery are a bit slow.""It needs a better UI for easier installation and management.""I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery.""Please create a failback solution for OpenStack replication and maybe QoS to allow guaranteed IOPS.""It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed.""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.""We have encountered slight integration issues."

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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
  • "The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical."
  • "There is no cost for software."
  • "Most of time, you can get Ceph with the OpenStack solution in a subscription​​ as a bundle.​"
  • "We never used the paid support."
  • "If you can afford a product like Red Hat Ceph Storage then go for it. If you cannot, then you need to test Ceph and get your hands dirty."
  • "The price of this product isn't high."
  • "The price of Red Hat Ceph Storage is reasonable."
  • "The operational overhead is higher compared to Azure because we own the hardware."
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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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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Red Hat Ceph does well in simplifying storage integration by replacing the need for numerous storage solutions. This solution allows for multiple copies of replicated and coded pools to be kept, easy… more »
    Top Answer:We have not encountered any stability issues for the product.
    Top Answer:Red Hat Ceph Storage is difficult to maintain. We use CLI tools for maintenance, and the concept seems challenging. Additionally, it is difficult to expand the product due to balancing errors. It… more »
    Top Answer:The performance of the solution must be improved.
    Top Answer:The solution is used in banks and financial institutions. Customers use the replicated configuration for high availability. They either use the native Gluster client or configure it with NFS… more »
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    Also Known As
    Ceph
    Red Hat Gluster, Red Hat Storage Server
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    Overview
    Red Hat Ceph Storage is an enterprise open source platform that provides unified software-defined storage on standard, economical servers and disks. With block, object, and file storage combined into one platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage efficiently and automatically manages all your data.

    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
    Dell, DreamHost
    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 Company18%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Government9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise48%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise61%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 22 reviews while Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews. Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Provides block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster". 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". Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and NetApp StorageGRID, whereas Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, LizardFS, LINBIT SDS and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct.

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