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Enables increased resilience but lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication
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    Questions from the Community
    How does Red Hat Ceph Storage compare with MiniO?
    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 »
    What do you like most about Red Hat Ceph Storage?
    Top Answer:I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product.
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    What needs improvement with Red Hat Ceph Storage?
    Top Answer:Ceph Storage lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication. That is a huge loss in terms of performance. It's also very intensive on the backend network and takes a lot of resources from the network… more »
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    What do you like most about Red Hat Gluster Storage?
    Top Answer:It's very easy to upgrade storage.
    What needs improvement with Red Hat Gluster Storage?
    Top Answer:In terms of improvement, my initial suggestion would be that the user interface could be simplified. For now, it requires training to be able to use it. I would like to see a more simplified version… more »
    What is your primary use case for Red Hat Gluster Storage?
    Top Answer:We're using the product for storage.
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    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.

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    NTT Plala, McMaster University, University of Basque Country, Goodtech ASA, Cox Automotive, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), SaskTel, Glashart Media, Casio
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    Government9%
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise48%
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    Small Business21%
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    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews while Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 18th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 7.6, while Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Designed for container platforms and has good integration, but its user interface needs improvement". On the other hand, Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, IBM Spectrum Scale and Dell ECS, whereas Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, LizardFS, Portworx Enterprise and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct.

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