HPE StoreVirtual vs Red Hat Ceph Storage comparison

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"A company can scale it easily.""HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console.""It appears to be very stable and very robust.""It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime.""The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent.""It's very stable and it's easy to use.""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.""The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."

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"radosgw and librados provide a simple integration with clone, snapshots, and other functions that aid in data integrity.""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.""What I found most valuable from Red Hat Ceph Storage is integration because if you are talking about a solution that consists purely of Red Hat products, this is where integration benefits come in. In particular, Red Hat Ceph Storage becomes a single solution for managing the entire environment in terms of the container or the infrastructure, or the worker nodes because it all comes from a single plug.""We have not encountered any stability issues for the product.""Red Hat Ceph Storage is a reliable solution, it works well.""We are using Ceph internal inexpensive disk and data redundancy without spending extra money on external storage.""The solution is pretty stable.""Without any extra costs, I was able to provide a redundant environment."

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Cons
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately.""User interface could be improved.""Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently.""It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker.""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.""it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products.""In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product.""The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."

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"It needs a better UI for easier installation and management.""It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed.""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.""Rebalancing and recovery are a bit slow.""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.""Geo-replication needs improvement. It is a new feature, and not well supported yet.""An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions.""The management features are pretty good, but they still have room for improvement."

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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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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:According to HPE, they say that they will stop making updates from maybe next year or something The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated. We need the solution to offer support for newer… more »
    Top Answer:We have several customers and we have StoreVirtual on several StoreVirtual deployments.
    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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    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.
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    Top Industries
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    Healthcare Company12%
    Construction Company8%
    Hospitality Company8%
    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise28%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise55%
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise46%
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    HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 21 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Provides block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony, StorMagic SvSAN and StarWind Virtual Tape Library, whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Dell ECS.

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