Dell PowerFlex vs Red Hat Ceph Storage comparison

The compared Dell Technologies and Red Hat solutions aren't in the same category. Dell Technologies is ranked #5 in HCI , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 13.3% mindshare in the category. Red Hat is ranked #2 in SDS , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 20.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

Dell PowerFlex

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96% willing to recommend

Red Hat Ceph Storage

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81% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerFlex

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

HCI (5th)

Red Hat Ceph Storage

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Defined Storage (SDS) (2nd), File and Object Storage (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

Dell PowerFlex and Red Hat Ceph Storage aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Dell PowerFlex is designed for HCI and holds a mindshare of 13.3%, up 7.5% compared to last year.
Red Hat Ceph Storage, on the other hand, focuses on Software Defined Storage (SDS), holds 20.2% mindshare, up 20.2% since last year.

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Ayodeji Oyewole

Managing Director at Atlantic factorial

A hyper-converged infrastructure that is like a mini data center of its own

There are two categories, namely, the appliances and the racks. The partners are able to set up the Dell PowerFlex appliances, but not fully. The partners are able to physically set up the appliances, while the OEM will set them up logically. The PowerFlex racks are fully set up by the OEM, both physically and logically. The solution's initial setup is not pretty straightforward in emerging markets at the moment.

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ANDRE VINICIUS HAMERSKI

IT Private Cloud & Infrastructure Leader at Sicredi

Offers cost-effective scalability through open-source storage integration

Ceph Storage allows us to add value related to cost and offers a unique experience compared to traditional storage. We appreciate the scalability of the open-source solution, allowing us to address our growing data needs without encountering major issues. Having used it as a pilot system in Brazil, we gained significant knowledge and the ability to manage our infrastructure as code.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."

"The setup was very straightforward."

"The most valuable feature is high availability."

"The solution is quite stable."

"The solution is scalable."

"Dell PowerFlex is a highly scalable solution."

"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."

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"We are using Ceph internal inexpensive disk and data redundancy without spending extra money on external storage."

"The most valuable feature is the stability of the product."

"Red Hat Ceph Storage is a reliable solution, it works well."

"The configuration of the solution and the user interface are both quite good."

"Ceph’s ability to adapt to varying types of commodity hardware affords us substantial flexibility and future-proofing."

"The community support is very good."

"The ability to provide block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster is very valuable for us."

"radosgw and librados provide a simple integration with clone, snapshots, and other functions that aid in data integrity."

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Cons

"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."

"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."

"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."

"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."

"The tool is a bit difficult to configure, making it an area where improvements are required."

"The tool needs to improve its storage. It should also make migration to the cloud easier."

"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."

"There should be more functionality available for routing."

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"I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery."

"Please create a failback solution for OpenStack replication and maybe QoS to allow guaranteed IOPS."

"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."

"Routing around slow hardware."

"This product uses a lot of CPU and network bandwidth. It needs some deduplication features and to use delta for rebalancing."

"The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the price as eight and a half. The tool is expensive."

"The cost of this solution is fair."

"I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"The solution's price is medium."

"The solution's pricing could be much cheaper and affordable."

"The solution is expensive and I give the cost a two out of ten."

"We have a good contact in Dell and he prepared all the information and provided everything to us."

"From my perspective, pricing is expensive. If they can reduce the pricing or offer more customer incentives, it would attract more users."

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"The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical."

"We never used the paid support."

"There is no cost for software."

"The operational overhead is higher compared to Azure because we own the hardware."

"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."

"I rate the product’s pricing an eight out of ten."

"The price of Red Hat Ceph Storage is reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

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By reviewers

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What are the major differences between VxRail and Dell EMC PowerFlex?

VxRail vs. Dell EMC PowerFlex VxRail provides stable solutions for technical problems while at the same time not being too expensive for a company to invest in. Even if the user is working with a l...

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What do you like most about Dell EMC PowerFlex?

The support is highly responsive.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC PowerFlex?

From my perspective, pricing is expensive. If they can reduce the pricing or offer more customer incentives, it would attract more users.

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How does Red Hat Ceph Storage compare with MiniO?

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, ea...

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What do you like most about Red Hat Ceph Storage?

The high availability of the solution is important to us.

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What needs improvement with Red Hat Ceph Storage?

While the documentation for Ceph Storage is helpful, it could be improved. There are instances where we needed to consult additional online forums and communities for solutions to particular issues.

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Also Known As

VxFlex, VxRack FLEX, PowerFlex

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Overview

VxRack System consists of hyper-converged rack-scale engineered systems, with integrated networking, to achieve the scalability and management requirements of traditional and cloud native workloads. The VxRack series is purposely designed to enable customers to quickly deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and/or Private Cloud architectures. VxRack Systems tightly integrate hardware with software and management layers.

The result is a fully tested, pre-configured, hyper-converged system with simplified operations at data center and Service Provider scale. VxRack Systems support the deployment of a variety of application workloads, allowing IT to rapidly deliver new services while improving overall agility and efficiency.

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.

Sample Customers

Canopy, 8x8Inc., Atos, Canadian Pacific, City of Denton, CenturyLink, BNP Paribas, Asyaport, EDF, CSC, Fox Sports, Insight, Hunter, KPIT, Paetec, Rosetta Stone, Sonda, Xerox

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