Huawei FusionStorage vs Red Hat Ceph Storage comparison

Huawei and Red Hat are both solutions in the File and Object Storage category. Huawei is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.5, while Red Hat is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1. Huawei holds a 0.5% mindshare in FaOS, compared to Red Hat’s 22.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Huawei users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

Huawei FusionStorage

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100% willing to recommend

Red Hat Ceph Storage

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81% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Red Hat Ceph Storage and Huawei FusionStorage target scalable and reliable storage solutions. Red Hat Ceph Storage may provide better value for money due to its pricing model, while Huawei FusionStorage excels in performance and scalability.

Features: Red Hat Ceph Storage offers integration across object, block, and file storage, simplified management, and strong scalability for OpenStack environments. Huawei FusionStorage delivers high-performance data management, snapshot and cloning features, and comprehensive storage analytics capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Red Hat Ceph Storage could enhance its user interface, further streamline deployment processes, and expand proprietary support services. Huawei FusionStorage might benefit from broader global community support, more flexible pricing structures, and deeper integrations with non-Huawei platforms.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Huawei FusionStorage provides streamlined deployment with robust support, ensuring high customer satisfaction. Red Hat Ceph Storage offers comprehensive documentation and community support, appealing to technically inclined organizations.

Pricing and ROI: Red Hat Ceph Storage is cost-effective with moderate initial costs and good ROI potential through its open-source model. Huawei FusionStorage, despite higher initial costs, aims for substantial long-term ROI through its high-capacity systems and advanced features.

To learn more, read our detailed Huawei FusionStorage vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage Report (Updated: January 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Huawei FusionStorage

Ranking in File and Object Storage

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Storage (16th)

Red Hat Ceph Storage

Ranking in File and Object Storage

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Defined Storage (SDS) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of Huawei FusionStorage is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Ceph Storage is 22.2%, down from 23.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Wondwossen Abebe Kebede

Program and performance manager at Ethio Telecom

Reliable platform that integrates well with different IT infrastructures and systems

The product integrates well with different IT infrastructures and systems in the telecom sector. Our partners manage services, including detailed integration and migration-related operations. The platform upholds the uptime and reliability of our business applications. We classify our systems into different tiers, ranging from machine-critical to business-critical, and FusionStorage helps us run all the services. It delivers a remarkable uptime of 99.9%. With our expectations for continuous service availability, we are operating 24/7. In cases where system interruptions occur, it enables rapid restoration, ensuring a prompt return to normal service levels. I rate it an eight out of ten.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution’s most valuable feature is its performance."

"The product has a very simple GUI-based management platform and it is very simple to use. There is a very easy step-by-step configuration procedure that guides you through, and you can configure it very easily."

"In cases where system interruptions occur, it enables rapid restoration, ensuring a prompt return to normal service levels."

"Huawei FusionStorage does well in its basic functions and offers broad utility."

"It is a stable solution."

"Provides easy access to our data."

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

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

"Ceph Storage allows us to add value related to cost and offers a unique experience compared to traditional storage."

"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 valuable features include replication and compression."

"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."

"We have not encountered any stability issues for the product."

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

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Cons

"The problem with Huawei is that it generally oversells. As a principle, Huawei does not educate the partner or the end user enough to scale up their solution correctly."

"Their cloud services could be improved."

"The initial setup and installation is not that straightforward. It should be made easier and the time to install should be reduced."

"The product needs improvement in terms of affordability."

"I hope for improvements in the product's processing ability and performance."

"The solution’s support could be improved."

"It took me a long time to get the storage drivers for the communication with Kubernetes up and running. The documentation could improve it is lacking information. I'm not sure if this is a Ceph problem or if Ceph should address this, but it was something I ran into. Additionally, there is a performance issue I am having that I am looking into, but overall I am satisfied with the performance."

"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 takes some time to re-balance the storage in case of server failure."

"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."

"While the documentation for Ceph Storage is helpful, it could be improved."

"Some documentation is very hard to find."

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

"Routing around slow hardware."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"If one is a cheap solution and ten means it is a very expensive product, I would rate the price as two or three."

"It is expensive but might be optimal based on the partnership."

"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."

"We never used the paid support."

"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."

"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%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Retailer

Government

Computer Software Company

18%

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 do you like most about Huawei FusionStorage?

In cases where system interruptions occur, it enables rapid restoration, ensuring a prompt return to normal service levels.

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What needs improvement with Huawei FusionStorage?

The solution’s support could be improved.

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What is your primary use case for Huawei FusionStorage?

Huawei FusionStorage is used for storage purposes.

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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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Overview

Huawei FusionStorage fully distributed cloud storage features massive scale-out capability designed for cloud-based architectures. The on-board storage system software combines the local storage resources of standard x86 servers into fully distributed storage pools, providing block, object, or file storage resources to the upper layer. An enterprise can easily obtain the required flexibility and efficiency in data storage to keep up with the ever-changing dynamics of business.

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

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