Red Hat Ceph Storage vs StorPool comparison

Red Hat and StorPool are both solutions in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category. Red Hat is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.8, while StorPool is ranked #19. Red Hat holds a 19.5% mindshare in SDS, compared to StorPool’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of StorPool users who would recommend it.

Red Hat Ceph Storage

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80% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorPool 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.

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Categories and Ranking

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)

StorPool

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

19th

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of Red Hat Ceph Storage is 19.5%, down from 20.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StorPool is 2.1%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

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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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it_user689271

President at eApps Hosting

Feb 6, 2019

Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency

We initially started using StorPool at three locations with a capacity of 250+ TB.By implementing StorPool, we managed to increase both our gross margins and performance, while decreasing the latency to 0.19-0.26 ms up to 125,000 IOPS We now deliver all-flash performance and improved uptime with…

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

"I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product."

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

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

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

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

"The solution is pretty stable."

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

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"Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."

"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."

"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."

"The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are very I/O intensive."

"With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node."

"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system."

Cons

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

"What could be improved in Red Hat Ceph Storage is its user interface or GUI."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

More Red Hat Ceph Storage cons

"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."

"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."

"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."

"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."

"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."

"It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

"We never used the paid support."

"There is no cost for software."

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

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

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"StorPool software is cost-effective and gives us a pricing advantage over our competitors."

"StorPool's pricing and licensing model is very transparent. As always, one has to due his due diligence when choosing a product like distributed storage solutions."

"It provides us with a significant reduction in TCO due to their pay-as-you-grow licensing model, which means we don’t have to pay upfront for hardware and licensing for capacity thStorPoolat we don’t yet need to use."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

18%

Performing Arts

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

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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Overview

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.

StorPool is intelligent storage software that runs on standard servers and builds scalable, high-performance storage system out of these servers (software-defined storage). It focuses on the block-level storage and excels at it. It is incredibly flexible and can be deployed in both converged setups (on compute nodes, alongside VMs and applications) or on separate storage nodes.

StorPool has advanced fully-distributed architecture and is arguably the fastest and most efficient block-storage software on the market today. It is the best storage system when building a cloud.

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