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."I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"The management interface is great and you have handy access to several details about your file shares."
"The most valuable feature is the easy interface."
"It is a highly scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the unified dashboard, as it allows us to easily observe everything from a single location."
"The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive."
"The Nutanix block files are the most valuable feature."
"What I found to be the most valuable features were better performance and uptime."
"radosgw and librados provide a simple integration with clone, snapshots, and other functions that aid in data integrity."
"The most valuable feature is the stability of the product."
"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."
"Ceph has simplified my storage integration. I no longer need two or three storage systems, as Ceph can support all my storage needs. I no longer need OpenStack Swift for REST object storage access, I no longer need NFS or GlusterFS for filesystem sharing, and most importantly, I no longer need LVM or DRBD for my virtual machines in OpenStack."
"We have not encountered any stability issues for the product."
"It's a very performance-intensive, brilliant storage system, and I always recommend it to customers based on its benefits, performance, and scalability."
"Ceph was chosen to maintain exact performance and capacity characteristics for customer cloud."
"I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product."
"Customer service is more difficult to call and they do not responding as much as, for example, DataCore. It's not the same level of satisfaction compared to DataCore. Responses could be faster."
"The solution should increase its storage capabilities."
"Another aspect that needs improvement is continuous protection against security threats such as ransomware and potential data leakage."
"We have issues with software updates occasionally."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"Allowing the use of the Gflag compromises the integrity of the Nutanix system and its established standards."
"The only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
"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."
"Some documentation is very hard to find."
"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."
"An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions."
"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."
"Routing around slow hardware."
"Please create a failback solution for OpenStack replication and maybe QoS to allow guaranteed IOPS."
"It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed."
Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th 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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