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

Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Pure Storage FlashBlade vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"The main feature I have found to be product replication.""Pure Storage FlashBlade is user-friendly. It's replication feature is great because it has active replication and active DR. That's the beauty of the product. It's a perfect solution for block storage.""It performs well and it is also very fast.""It's very easy-to-use.""The most valuable features of this solution are the rewrite speed and the nonstop services.""The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time.""The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures efficient replication and helps maintain our data centers' uptime.""The product is scalable and easy to expand."

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"radosgw and librados provide a simple integration with clone, snapshots, and other functions that aid in data integrity.""Most of the features are beneficial and one does not stand out above the rest.""The ability to provide block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster is very valuable for us.""The configuration of the solution and the user interface are both quite good.""The community support is very good.""I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product.""High reliability with commodity hardware.""Most valuable features include replication and compression."

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Cons
"I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabytes.""I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features.""There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket.""They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution.""I would like to see better integration.""The Pure Storage Orchestrator is our biggest pain point at the moment. If we can have more say in future developments of feature sets that we will need to support for our use case, that would be pretty beneficial to us.""On our dedupe during our initial buy, we were expecting a number a little higher like 4x. However, we are getting about 3.6. While it is close enough, it doesn't quite hit the numbers. So, this has been a challenge.""In the realm of micro-services, I think that Pure Storage can do well if they start getting in there and making their arrays more micro-services ready."

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"The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication.""The storage capacity of the solution can be improved.""Rebalancing and recovery are a bit slow.""This product uses a lot of CPU and network bandwidth. It needs some deduplication features and to use delta for rebalancing.""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.""It needs a better UI for easier installation and management.""It takes some time to re-balance the storage in case of server failure.""I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery."

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  • "We used a reseller for the purchase."
  • "Our customers have seen a reduction in TCO."
  • "I have seen ROI. It has allowed me to increase the density of my VMs without having to purchase anything additional."
  • "Our licensing is renewed annually."
  • "Support is a separate line item. Support is a different cost, but whatever your support is now, that's what you're going to pay forever. If your support's $100 today, six years from now it's $100. It doesn't fluctuate unless you upgrade it, or change it, etc."
  • "The price is a little high."
  • "In my opinion, we have paid the right price for the product. I don't think that it is too much or too little."
  • "The price of this solution could be made more affordable."
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  • "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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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures… more »
    Top Answer:Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues… more »
    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:The high availability of the solution is important to us.
    Top Answer:Some documentation is very hard to find. The documentation must be quickly available.
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    Overview

    FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

    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.
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    Buyer's Guide
    Pure Storage FlashBlade vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Pure Storage FlashBlade vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 7th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews while Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 2nd in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Provides block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster". Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray and Dell ECS, whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, NetApp StorageGRID and Dell ECS. See our Pure Storage FlashBlade vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage report.

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