Red Hat Ceph Storage Valuable Features
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reviewer234109
Sr. Systems Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
The ability to provide block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster is very valuable for us.
We are using Ceph as back-end storage for our OpenStack cloud. Ceph provides:
- Block storage for storing the OpenStack images or VM templates
- Block storage for OpenStack Cinder volume service
- Block storage for OpenStack Nova VM compute service boot volumes
- Object storage for the OpenStack Swift service
Without Ceph, we would have ended up with at least two storage systems: One for block storage and another for providing Swift Objectstore.
The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical.
View full review »Most of the features are beneficial and one does not stand out above the rest.
The high availability of the solution is important to us. It is a quick tool. The cluster structure is important. We can add and remove nodes.
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The product can be integrated with any storage and we can create it like block storage and then ISO storage. We keep our files in storage. They can be anything from video to PDF. The flexibility in the storage is good.
View full review »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.
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reviewer1125696
UNIX Security Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product.
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Siddhartha Sinha
IT Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are using Ceph internal inexpensive disk and data redundancy without spending extra money on external storage.
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Fu Qingyun
Engineer at Orcadt
The most valuable feature is the stability of the product.
View full review »Data redundancy, since it can survive failures (disks/servers). We didn’t lose our data or have a service interruption during server/disk failures.
View full review »When going open-source, there is actually not much of a choice. Ceph was chosen to maintain exact performance and capacity characteristics for customer cloud.
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SeniorSo7c34
Senior Software Test Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
I/O into replicated and erasure coded pools (librados).
View full review »By being open source, Ceph is not tied to the whim or fortunes of any one vendor. The community of Ceph code contributors and admins is large and active. Ceph’s ability to adapt to varying types of commodity hardware affords us substantial flexibility and future-proofing.
View full review »The best features are performance, open measure for hardware options, and scalability.
View full review »The ability to present Rest API, POSIX filesystem, and block devices from the same distributed object storage back-system (RADOS) is of major value to me.
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Flavio Carvalho
Senior Information Technology Specialist at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
- We can reuse servers of any type and include them in the deploy of the solution.
- radosgw and librados provide a simple integration with clone, snapshots, and other functions that aid in data integrity.
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Diego Woitasen
Senior Solutions Architect and co-founder at flugel.it
Its reliability. I have experienced failures and human mistakes. However, Ceph was able to recover automatically the data with a special procedure.
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reviewer825243
Data Storage Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The configuration of the solution and the user interface are both quite good.
View full review »- RADOS
- Swift
- S3
- Replication
- Compression
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