We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ceph Storage and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Software Defined Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Most of the features are beneficial and one does not stand out above the rest."
"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."
"It's a very performance-intensive, brilliant storage system, and I always recommend it to customers based on its benefits, performance, and scalability."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product."
"Red Hat Ceph Storage is a reliable solution, it works well."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is stable."
"VMware has been around for a long time are are doing a decent job at catching up with the latest technologies i.e. bringing in kubernetes and containerization. Overall, this is a great tool for virtualization."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"The solution has high performance."
"The scalability of the solution is most valuable."
"If you use for any other solution like other Kubernetes solutions, it's not very suitable."
"It took me a long time to get the storage drivers for the communication with Kubernetes up and running. The documentation could improve it is lacking information. I'm not sure if this is a Ceph problem or if Ceph should address this, but it was something I ran into. Additionally, there is a performance issue I am having that I am looking into, but overall I am satisfied with the performance."
"An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions."
"It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed."
"What could be improved in Red Hat Ceph Storage is its user interface or GUI."
"The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"In a future release, they could add micro-segmentation or security level features integrated into vSAN."
"This product is very expensive."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"As no product is 100% perfect, the price for VMware vSAN could still be improved, though it is good when compared to some of its competitors."
"VMware vSAN could improve by adding NAS and object storage."
"The upgrading process could be simplified."
"While I like the replication and compression features, there is a problem with them running too slowly."
Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 6 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 60 reviews. Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 7.4, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Flexible and good for storage but can be complex to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, Portworx Enterprise, IBM Spectrum Scale, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell ECS, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Sangfor HCI. See our Red Hat Ceph Storage vs. VMware vSAN report.
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