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"The solution works well. It's very reliable.""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.""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.""The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily.""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.""Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data.""Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."

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"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 community support is very good.""We are using Ceph internal inexpensive disk and data redundancy without spending extra money on external storage.""It has helped to save money and scale the storage without limits.""We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment.""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.""The configuration of the solution and the user interface are both quite good."

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"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery.""I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications.""The initial setup is complex.""VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption.""There can be delays in getting performance reports.""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.""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."

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"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.""We have encountered slight integration issues.""It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed.""I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery.""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.""Geo-replication needs improvement. It is a new feature, and not well supported yet.""Please create a failback solution for OpenStack replication and maybe QoS to allow guaranteed IOPS.""Routing around slow hardware."

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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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    Energy/Utilities Company13%
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    Dell VPLEX is ranked 1st 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 8.2. 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 and NetApp OnCommand, whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Dell ECS.

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