We performed a comparison between Nutanix Unified Storage and Red Hat Ceph Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is simple and robust."
"Nutanix Objects is reliable."
"The most valuable features are the interface and support."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. With a few clicks, you can stand up your storage. It reduces the overall life cycle of deployment within the ecosystem."
"The solution is easy to use, share, and manage."
"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"Nutanix has excellent product documentation available on their portals, written in simple, easy-to-understand language."
"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."
"Ceph was chosen to maintain exact performance and capacity characteristics for customer cloud."
"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."
"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."
"We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment."
"The high availability of the solution is important to us."
"High reliability with commodity hardware."
"Red Hat Ceph Storage is a reliable solution, it works well."
"The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better."
"Lowering the price would improve this product."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"The documentation on the support site needs to be improved."
"Nutanix should improve the one-click upgrade. There are a lot of dependencies on third-party licenses and HP hardware we use internally. The one-click upgrade fails sometimes."
"The graphical user interfaces could benefit from more attention to detail."
"We have some problems with Nutanix Unified Storage's support because they asked us to change our hardware."
"The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication."
"It needs a better UI for easier installation and management."
"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."
"I have encountered issues with stability when replication factor was not 3, which is the default and recommended value. Go below 3 and problems will arise."
"This product uses a lot of CPU and network bandwidth. It needs some deduplication features and to use delta for rebalancing."
"The storage capacity of the solution can be improved."
"Geo-replication needs improvement. It is a new feature, and not well supported yet."
"It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed."
Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews while Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 22 reviews. Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Provides block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster". Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), MinIO, Dell ECS, Qumulo and VAST Data, whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and NetApp StorageGRID. See our Nutanix Unified Storage vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage report.
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