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Red Hat Ceph Storage pros and cons

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PROS

Red Hat Ceph Storage provides high reliability with commodity hardware and allows block and object storage from the same cluster, offering flexibility and future-proofing.
Ceph’s configuration supports data redundancy and error resilience, enabling continued operation during disk or server failures.
Community support for Red Hat Ceph Storage is strong, contributing to saving costs while scaling the storage without limits.
Red Hat Ceph Storage offers integration benefits, becoming a unified system for managing containers, infrastructure, and worker nodes.
Its compatibility with AWS S3 is highly appreciated, emphasizing the choice of Red Hat Ceph Storage for cloud-native storage needs.

CONS

Red Hat Ceph Storage needs better performance and stability during recovery.
There are challenges with network and individual node failures, and rebalancing is slow.
A thorough review of guides and documentation is essential, as newcomers encounter bugs and incomplete instructions.
Geo-replication and deduplication features require enhancement, as they are underdeveloped.
Licensing costs are excessively high, creating a barrier for potential users.
 

Red Hat Ceph Storage Pros review quotes

AB
Sr. Systems Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 5, 2017
The ability to provide block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster is very valuable for us.
it_user623802 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Aug 3, 2017
High reliability with commodity hardware.
it_user774150 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer
Nov 16, 2017
Ceph’s ability to adapt to varying types of commodity hardware affords us substantial flexibility and future-proofing.
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it_user827883 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior UNIX Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees
Feb 27, 2018
Most valuable features include replication and compression.
it_user854061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 11, 2018
Ceph was chosen to maintain exact performance and capacity characteristics for customer cloud.
FC
Senior Information Technology Specialist at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 11, 2018
We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment.
DW
Senior Solutions Architect and co-founder at flugel.it
Apr 22, 2018
The community support is very good.
SeniorSo7c34 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Test Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Apr 22, 2018
Replicated and erasure coded pools have allowed for multiple copies to be kept, easy scale-out of additional nodes, and easy replacement of failed hard drives. The solution continues working even when there are errors.
it_user860841 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix Solutions Manager at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 22, 2018
Data redundancy is a key feature, since it can survive failures (disks/servers). We didn’t lose our data or have a service interruption during server/disk failures.
SS
IT Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Apr 22, 2018
We are using Ceph internal inexpensive disk and data redundancy without spending extra money on external storage.
 

Red Hat Ceph Storage Cons review quotes

AB
Sr. Systems Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 5, 2017
Ceph does not deal very well with, or takes a long time to recover from, certain kinds of network failures and individual storage node failures.
it_user623802 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Aug 3, 2017
I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery.
it_user774150 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer
Nov 16, 2017
Routing around slow hardware.
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it_user827883 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior UNIX Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees
Feb 27, 2018
Please create a failback solution for OpenStack replication and maybe QoS to allow guaranteed IOPS.
it_user854061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 11, 2018
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.
FC
Senior Information Technology Specialist at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 11, 2018
In the deployment step, we need to create some config files to add Ceph functions in OpenStack modules (Nova, Cinder, Glance). It would be useful to have a tool that validates the format of the data in those files, before generating a deploy with failures.
DW
Senior Solutions Architect and co-founder at flugel.it
Apr 22, 2018
Geo-replication needs improvement. It is a new feature, and not well supported yet.
SeniorSo7c34 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Test Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Apr 22, 2018
It needs a better UI for easier installation and management.
it_user860841 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix Solutions Manager at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 22, 2018
Rebalancing and recovery are a bit slow.
SS
IT Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Apr 22, 2018
This product uses a lot of CPU and network bandwidth. It needs some deduplication features and to use delta for rebalancing.