HPE StoreVirtual vs Red Hat Ceph Storage comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Red Hat are both solutions in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #17, while Red Hat is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 1.3% mindshare in SDS, compared to Red Hat’s 19.5% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

HPE StoreVirtual

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94% willing to recommend

Red Hat Ceph Storage

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual 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 HPE StoreVirtual vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

HPE StoreVirtual

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

17th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Red Hat Ceph Storage

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File and Object Storage (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of HPE StoreVirtual is 1.3%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Ceph Storage is 19.5%, down from 20.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Featured Reviews

Vebjorn Nergaard

Senior IT Engineer at Guard Automation AS

Feb 9, 2020

Stable, scalable, and easy to manage

The solution is deployed with two nodes and then users have a network ride. The storage solution synchronizes, and it's quite like the StarWind solution. We installed two storage virtual machines and they synchronize with each other. That way, if one goes down, the other one will have the same…

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Soner BÜYÜKATALAY

Chief Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Nov 9, 2023

Provides efficient stability and archive storage features, but its maintenance process needs improvement

We use the product for archive storage, video surveillance systems, and media storage 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 takes some time…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."

"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."

"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."

"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."

"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."

"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."

"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."

"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."

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

"Most valuable features include replication and compression."

"We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment."

"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."

"Most of the features are beneficial and one does not stand out above the rest."

"Without any extra costs, I was able to provide a redundant environment."

"We use the solution for cloud storage."

"Ceph was chosen to maintain exact performance and capacity characteristics for customer cloud."

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Cons

"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."

"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."

"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."

"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."

"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."

"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."

"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."

"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."

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"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."

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

"An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions."

"Geo-replication needs improvement. It is a new feature, and not well supported yet."

"The storage capacity of the solution can be improved."

"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."

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

"The management features are pretty good, but they still have room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It costs less than $10,000 for one machine. If it costs more than 15% higher than this, then the customer may change to another solution."

"The prices are OK, so we don't have much difficulty selling HPE in Brazil."

"Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen."

"One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included."

"For our organization, I believe the cost is 16,000 Euros for a three-year license. It costs a bit more to do the maintenance on our servers as well. It's also on an HP ProLiant server and an organization will need to do the maintenance there also. I believe the price for that is around 2000 Euros a year."

"If you buy a five-year license, not only does the technical support expire after five years, but you also lose the ability to change and expand the VSA, and the systems won't go down."

"The price of this product isn't high."

"We never used the paid support."

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

"Most of time, you can get Ceph with the OpenStack solution in a subscription as a bundle."

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

"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."

"There is no cost for software."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

23%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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?

Some documentation is very hard to find. The documentation must be quickly available.

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Also Known As

HPE StoreVirtual, HPE VSA

Ceph

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Overview

HPE StoreVirtual storage ensures that organisations can optimise the benefits of server virtualisation with cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery. The iSCSI-based, scale-out storage platform is easy to manage and change – meeting ongoing business demands without creating IT bottlenecks or application downtime. Overcoming the cost and management limitations of traditional storage area networks (SANs), HPE StoreVirtual nodes use storage clustering to form a single pool of resources that enable organisations to buy only what they need today, scaling non-disruptively to meet requirements in the future.

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

NBrIX, WIND Telecom, Netrics

Dell, DreamHost

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