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Red Hat Ceph Storage pros and cons

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Red Hat Ceph Storage Pros review quotes

AB
Jul 5, 2017
The ability to provide block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster is very valuable for us.
Joos Mulio - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 1, 2023
The solution is pretty stable.
it_user860847 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 22, 2018
Ceph has simplified my storage integration. I no longer need two or three storage systems, as Ceph can support all my storage needs. I no longer need OpenStack Swift for REST object storage access, I no longer need NFS or GlusterFS for filesystem sharing, and most importantly, I no longer need LVM or DRBD for my virtual machines in OpenStack.
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Ahmed_Taha - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 27, 2022
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.
FC
Apr 11, 2018
We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment.
RV
Jul 26, 2022
I like the distributed and self-healing nature of the product.
it_user854061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 11, 2018
Ceph was chosen to maintain exact performance and capacity characteristics for customer cloud.
JP
Apr 28, 2022
Red Hat Ceph Storage is a reliable solution, it works well.
it_user774150 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 16, 2017
Ceph’s ability to adapt to varying types of commodity hardware affords us substantial flexibility and future-proofing.
Rifat Rahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 17, 2022
It's a very performance-intensive, brilliant storage system, and I always recommend it to customers based on its benefits, performance, and scalability.
 

Red Hat Ceph Storage Cons review quotes

AB
Jul 5, 2017
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.
Joos Mulio - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 1, 2023
If you use for any other solution like other Kubernetes solutions, it's not very suitable.
it_user860847 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 22, 2018
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.
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Ahmed_Taha - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 27, 2022
What could be improved in Red Hat Ceph Storage is its user interface or GUI.
FC
Apr 11, 2018
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.
RV
Jul 26, 2022
The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication.
it_user854061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 11, 2018
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.
JP
Apr 28, 2022
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.
it_user774150 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 16, 2017
Routing around slow hardware.
Rifat Rahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 17, 2022
An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions.