Red Hat Ceph Storage vs VAST Data comparison

"Without any extra costs, I was able to provide a redundant environment."

"radosgw and librados provide a simple integration with clone, snapshots, and other functions that aid in data integrity."

"We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment."

"The solution is pretty stable."

"We have not encountered any stability issues for the product."

"Most of the features are beneficial and one does not stand out above the rest."

"Ceph’s ability to adapt to varying types of commodity hardware affords us substantial flexibility and future-proofing."

"I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product."

"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."

"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."

"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."

"Some documentation is very hard to find."

"Please create a failback solution for OpenStack replication and maybe QoS to allow guaranteed IOPS."

"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."

"The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication."

"Routing around slow hardware."

"I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery."

"We have encountered slight integration issues."

"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."

"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."

"There is no cost for software."

"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."

"I rate the product’s pricing an eight out of ten."

"The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical."

"The price of this product isn't high."

"We never used the paid support."

"Most of time, you can get Ceph with the OpenStack solution in a subscription​​ as a bundle.​"

"The price of Red Hat Ceph Storage is reasonable."

"We acquired VAST Data as a one-time, capital purchase."

"Price-wise, VAST Data is not the cheapest, not the most expensive one."