Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) vs Red Hat Ceph Storage comparison

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. With a few clicks, you can stand up your storage. It reduces the overall life cycle of deployment within the ecosystem."

"The Nutanix block files are the most valuable feature."

"It is unified. This is the best thing that Nutanix gave to the world. You can do everything from one point."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Unified Storage is SMB file sharing."

"My opinion is that this solution has very good stability."

"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."

"What I found to be the most valuable features were better performance and uptime."

"We have been able to save local disk space by using Data Lens. We upload 18 GB to the cloud and are able to save 20% to 25%."

"The community support is very good."

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

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

"Most valuable features include replication and compression."

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

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

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

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

"The biggest thing for me, which is a pet peeve of mine, is the integration with the hardware platforms."

"The graphical user interfaces could benefit from more attention to detail."

"We would love to see the analytics and ransomware protection extended beyond just file servers to virtual machines, but they have a different product that covers that."

"Security is an area for improvement. When there are vulnerabilities, there needs to be a faster approval process. The solution needs to automatically target the vulnerabilities and not waste too much time."

"Allowing the use of the Gflag compromises the integrity of the Nutanix system and its established standards."

"The pricing could be improved."

"There should be more information. If it gets used more by more people, they will have a bigger community to share ideas. It is still kind of newer. It is not as big as Dell and other companies."

"Pricing can always be better."

"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."

"It would be nice to have a notification feature whenever an important action is completed."

"If you use for any other solution like other Kubernetes solutions, it's not very suitable."

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

"Ceph is not a mature product at this time. Guides are misleading and incomplete. You will meet all kind of bugs and errors trying to install the system for the first time. It requires very experienced personnel to support and keep the system in working condition, and install all necessary packets."

"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."

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

"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."

"The price of the license is expensive when comparing it to traditional storage."

"Nutanix Unified Storage pricing is reasonable."

"If we compare the cost of Nutanix Objects Storage to other solutions such as VMware licenses, our current choice is Nutanix Objects Storage. This solution is more cost-effective. However, adding VMware to Nutanix would not be a cost-efficient decision, which is why we do not use it anymore."

"It is quite expensive otherwise as it comes with three-tier peer underlying hardware."

"Nutanix Unified Storage isn't expensive."

"It is very good. It is much more competitive than a dedicated storage platform."

"The product has an annual licensing fee."

"Nutanix offers different pricing options, including Ultimate and Ultimate Pro."

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

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

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

"We never used the paid support."

"There is no cost for software."

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

"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."