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"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data.""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.""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 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.""The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."

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"The most valuable feature is the stability of the product.""We are using Ceph internal inexpensive disk and data redundancy without spending extra money on external storage.""Most of the features are beneficial and one does not stand out above the rest.""Ceph was chosen to maintain exact performance and capacity characteristics for customer cloud.""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.""I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product.""The community support is very good.""It has helped to save money and scale the storage without limits."

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Cons
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure.""VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption.""The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors.""VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply.""The initial setup is complex.""Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery.""With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom.""There can be delays in getting performance reports."

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"I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery.""The storage capacity of the solution can be improved.""Rebalancing and recovery are a bit slow.""Routing around slow hardware.""Please create a failback solution for OpenStack replication and maybe QoS to allow guaranteed IOPS.""Some documentation is very hard to find.""Geo-replication needs improvement. It is a new feature, and not well supported yet.""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."

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  • "We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."
  • "VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."
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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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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract.
    Top Answer:This is an enterprise solution so licensing costs are generally on the higher side. There will be additional costs if you want to do a network cluster for business servers.
    Top Answer:Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure. Any EMX product, be it PowerMax, VMAX, or DMAX, works based on the CLI. A person has to be very good at running… more »
    Top Answer:Red Hat Ceph does well in simplifying storage integration by replacing the need for numerous storage solutions. This solution allows for multiple copies of replicated and coded pools to be kept, easy… more »
    Top Answer:We have not encountered any stability issues for the product.
    Top Answer:Red Hat Ceph Storage is difficult to maintain. We use CLI tools for maintenance, and the concept seems challenging. Additionally, it is difficult to expand the product due to balancing errors. It… more »
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    Overview
    Wth EMC VPLEX you can deploy next-generation virtualization architecture to enable simultaneous information access within, between, and across data centers, move applications, virtual machines, and data in and between data centers without impacting users and deliver application and data availability within the data center and over distance with full infrastructure utilization and zero downtime.
    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.
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    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 22 reviews. Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2. 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, NetApp OnCommand and Huawei OceanStor DJ, whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and NetApp StorageGRID.

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