We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual, Red Hat Ceph Storage, and StorPool based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"A very flexible solution."
"The solution is very stable."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment."
"The ability to provide block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster is very valuable for us."
"I like the distributed and self-healing nature 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."
"We have not encountered any stability issues for the product."
"High reliability with commodity hardware."
"The configuration of the solution and the user interface are both quite good."
"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."
"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."
"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system."
"With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node."
"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."
"The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are very I/O intensive."
"Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions."
"What could be improved in Red Hat Ceph Storage is its user interface or GUI."
"The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication."
"It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed."
"If you use for any other solution like other Kubernetes solutions, it's not very suitable."
"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."
"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."
"It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."
"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."
"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."
"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."
"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."
"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."
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