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We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ceph Storage and ScaleIO [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"Ceph’s ability to adapt to varying types of commodity hardware affords us substantial flexibility and future-proofing.""We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment.""We are using Ceph internal inexpensive disk and data redundancy without spending extra money on external storage.""I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product.""The high availability of the solution is important to us.""The ability to provide block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster is very valuable for us.""The most valuable feature is the stability of the product.""The community support is very good."

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"They know how to clearly present any important data, including data flow and each drive's IOPS/bandwidth; and allow the user to easily monitor bottlenecks and problems""We are using it as the primary virtualization storage (both for internal corporate users and external customers) for VMware and Hyper-V virtualization platforms.""Compared to other products in this category that are competing with Dell EMC, Dell seems to us to always come out on top.""Automatic rebalancing is the feature saving administration time."

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"The storage capacity of the solution can be improved.""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.""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.""An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions.""Routing around slow hardware.""It takes some time to re-balance the storage in case of server failure.""This product uses a lot of CPU and network bandwidth. It needs some deduplication features and to use delta for rebalancing."

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"It would be nice to set minimum IOPS per volume, besides just the maximum, to be able to satisfy this demand from customers out-of-the-box, not by calculating number of disks, etc.""There is room for improvement in the area of horizontal scaling.""Ecosystem around the product: There is no built-in system for viewing history data, such as volume IOPS. We have to provide graphing by Prometheus and Grafana, which would be a good new feature in ScaleIO.""If they could introduce a write cache feature, the product would be perfect overall."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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: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
    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.

    ScaleIO is purposely designed to be an enterprise-grade scale-out software-defined storage solution. It applies the principles of server virtualization to standard x86 server flash and hybrid media, turning them into high performance, sharable, pools of storage. Whether your block storage needs are for traditional, modern or cloud workloads, ScaleIO has you covered.

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    Large Enterprise48%
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    Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 22 reviews while ScaleIO [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2, while ScaleIO [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Provides block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ScaleIO [EOL] writes "Meets our customers' needs but they should move towards high-level scaling". Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and NetApp StorageGRID, whereas ScaleIO [EOL] is most compared with .

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