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"A company can scale it easily.""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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The prices are OK, so we don't have much difficulty selling HPE in Brazil."
  • "One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included."
  • "If you buy a five-year license, not only does the technical support expire after five years, but you also lose the ability to change and expand the VSA, and the systems won't go down."
  • "Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen."
  • "For our organization, I believe the cost is 16,000 Euros for a three-year license. It costs a bit more to do the maintenance on our servers as well. It's also on an HP ProLiant server and an organization will need to do the maintenance there also. I believe the price for that is around 2000 Euros a year."
  • "It costs less than $10,000 for one machine. If it costs more than 15% higher than this, then the customer may change to another solution."
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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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  • "It provides us with a significant reduction in TCO due to their pay-as-you-grow licensing model, which means we don’t have to pay upfront for hardware and licensing for capacity thStorPoolat we don’t yet need to use."
  • "StorPool's pricing and licensing model is very transparent. As always, one has to due his due diligence when choosing a product like distributed storage solutions."
  • "StorPool software is cost-effective and gives us a pricing advantage over our competitors."
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    Top Answer:According to HPE, they say that they will stop making updates from maybe next year or something The GUI is a bit… more »
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    Top Answer:Red Hat Ceph does well in simplifying storage integration by replacing the need for numerous storage solutions. This… more »
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    HPE StoreVirtual, HPE VSA
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    Overview

    HPE StoreVirtual storage ensures that organisations can optimise the benefits of server virtualisation with cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery. The iSCSI-based, scale-out storage platform is easy to manage and change – meeting ongoing business demands without creating IT bottlenecks or application downtime. Overcoming the cost and management limitations of traditional storage area networks (SANs), HPE StoreVirtual nodes use storage clustering to form a single pool of resources that enable organisations to buy only what they need today, scaling non-disruptively to meet requirements in the future.

    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.

    StorPool is intelligent storage software that runs on standard servers and builds scalable, high-performance storage system out of these servers (software-defined storage). It focuses on the block-level storage and excels at it. It is incredibly flexible and can be deployed in both converged setups (on compute nodes, alongside VMs and applications) or on separate storage nodes.

    StorPool has advanced fully-distributed architecture and is arguably the fastest and most efficient block-storage software on the market today. It is the best storage system when building a cloud.

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