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We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and Red Hat Ceph Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms.""The profile share is a valuable feature.""Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward.""It has been pretty reliable throughout the years. As far as capacity is concerned, it can handle most heavy loads.""The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better.""GPFS monitoring is the best feature.""Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for.""Allows us to share files across multiple environments."

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"The most valuable feature is the stability of the product.""Red Hat Ceph Storage is a reliable solution, it works well.""The community support is very good.""The solution is pretty stable.""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.""Without any extra costs, I was able to provide a redundant environment.""Most valuable features include replication and compression.""I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product."

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Cons
"Maybe it needs integration with HA.""Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation.""We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization.""It would be helpful if there was a graphical user interface that could walk you through the deployment process. The instructions surrounding setup aren't the best. They need to be more step-by-step.""The solution's pricing could be better.""I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it.""The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers.""They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."

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"I have encountered issues with stability when replication factor was not 3, which is the default and recommended value. Go below 3 and problems will arise.""The storage capacity of the solution can be improved.""Routing around slow hardware.""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.""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.""It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed.""Geo-replication needs improvement. It is a new feature, and not well supported yet."

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  • "The licensing is based on the number of terabytes."
  • "The licensing model is complex and depends on factors such as the number of processing cores and the amount of storage."
  • "The solution is costly but reliable."
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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: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
    IBM Spectrum Scale is a cluster file system that provides concurrent access to a single file system or set of file systems from multiple nodes. The nodes can be SAN attached, network attached, a mixture of SAN attached and network attached, or in a shared nothing cluster configuration. This enables access to this common set of data to support a scale-out solution or to provide a high availability platform. IBM Spectrum Scale has many features beyond common data access including data replication, policy based storage management, and multi-site operations. You can create a cluster of AIX nodes, Linux nodes, Windows server nodes, or a mix of all three. IBM Spectrum Scale can run on virtualized instances providing common data access in environments, leverage logical partitioning, or other hypervisors. Multiple IBM Spectrum Scale clusters can share data within a location or across wide area network (WAN) connections.
    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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    Buyer's Guide
    IBM Spectrum Scale vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about IBM Spectrum Scale vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews while Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 8 reviews. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Flexible and good for storage but can be complex to set up". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Portworx Enterprise, VMware vSAN, DDN IME, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Red Hat Gluster Storage, whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Scality RING. See our IBM Spectrum Scale vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage report.

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