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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions.""Its technical support is excellent.""The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable.""The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing""The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure.""The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."

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"It has helped to save money and scale the storage without limits.""We have not encountered any stability issues for the product.""Ceph’s ability to adapt to varying types of commodity hardware affords us substantial flexibility and future-proofing.""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.""Most valuable features include replication and compression.""The most valuable feature is the stability of the product.""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.""I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product."

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Cons
"It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes.""Documentation management could be improved""The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution.""I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools.""It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution.""More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."

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"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.""An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions.""If you use for any other solution like other Kubernetes solutions, it's not very suitable.""It needs a better UI for easier installation and management.""This product uses a lot of CPU and network bandwidth. It needs some deduplication features and to use delta for rebalancing.""The storage capacity of the solution can be improved.""We have encountered slight integration issues.""I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "With the data center licensing and everything that is connected to that, this solution is relatively costly."
  • "Cost-wise the product is one of the more affordable within the category of products."
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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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    Top Answer:It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution. In comparison, the process is easy for VMware and VSAN.
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    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

    Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features like caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovation like RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivaled efficiency and performance.

    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
    Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews while Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 21 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Provides block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster". Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and StarWind Virtual SAN. See our Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage report.

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