We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and Red Hat Ceph Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility."
"Ceph’s ability to adapt to varying types of commodity hardware affords us substantial flexibility and future-proofing."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"It has helped to save money and scale the storage without limits."
"Most of the features are beneficial and one does not stand out above the rest."
"Red Hat Ceph Storage is a reliable solution, it works well."
"We use the solution for cloud storage."
"The community support is very good."
"Ceph was chosen to maintain exact performance and capacity characteristics for customer cloud."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery."
"This product uses a lot of CPU and network bandwidth. It needs some deduplication features and to use delta for rebalancing."
"It takes some time to re-balance the storage in case of server failure."
"We have encountered slight integration issues."
"The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication."
"Rebalancing and recovery are a bit slow."
"It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed."
"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."
Dell VPLEX is ranked 2nd in Storage Management with 18 reviews while Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 21 reviews. Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell VPLEX writes "It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Provides block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster". Dell VPLEX is most compared with IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM SAN Volume Control and NetApp OnCommand, whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and NetApp StorageGRID.
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