IBM Storage Ceph Reviews & Product Details

RedHat Ceph storage is a very powerful external Storage that's we depend on it for all our private Cloud. It's allow use to save our NVF data with three replica so we are confident about the data available even any operational accident happened. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no a real issue with Red Hat Ceph storage but due to the technology nature the Ceph cluster take some longer time to expand specially when making a large expansion with large number of OSDs.

There is an issue while upgrading from the file store to the blue store this step has to be done when doing an upgrade after release 3, this step takes so much time and has to do offload for the workload. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ceph provides interfaces for all types of storage types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ceph is quite a resource intensive storage making it costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although Ceph has featured frequently seen in other enterprise storage products, it is probably less expensive than a standard SAN. Ceph does not require the licensing fees of proprietary systems because it is an open-source solution. Moreover, it may be implemented on inexpensive, generic hardware and is not reliant on expensive, specialist hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Currently, I am having challenges with the Object Gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The core of Ceph with RADOS is very robust and stable. I have never lost any data.

Scaling is easy and replacing nodes in the cluster also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Red Hat Ceph is not very stable. The core is, but the iSCSI gateways have caused downtimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Self healing

easy administration

Lots of features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No issues

No need of special training

Best for defining your way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Red Hat Ceph Storage allows the host migration for VMs across the infrastructure, So its easy to replace the blade server when it crash, also the VM's volumes is replecated over the storage, which ensure the reliability of my critical service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What is disliked of the Red Hat Ceph storage is the operations time while making scale in/out. it takes some time specially when the operation needs to change the cluster PG num. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the first best thing is that it has a proper documentation to create cceph storage. It provide all the details for all 3 types of storages .

we can easily combine our sda or sd.. to create a single ceph cluster . it uses some complex algorithm which helps it to provide the best optimised storage solution.

ceph with redhat is amazing for mid scale and large organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

couldnt find anything to dislike, actual i start understanding ceph from redhat documentaion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about the Ceph storage is it is open-source. Also, helpful in high scalability and storage efficiency. It consists storage of object storage, block storage, and also distributed file storage. It meets the requirements which will be used in the future. The user interface is considered to be good as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of knowledge for deploying the safe system Ceph storage architecture can create chaos and also harm the security of the Ceph storage architecture. Without the help of a professional person, it cannot be setup with that much efficiency. If a part of the whole system gets falsify or corrupted then it is difficult to get hold of it. The documentation has to be completed to use all scenarios which are currently not available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great for data analysis, also self-healing designed group up to be highly available vs. an after though Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

if a beginner was used so Lack knowledge for deploying the safe system Ceph storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unlike gluster, it can be used for both object and block storage. It makes the life easy when it is needed to scale-in or scale-out anytime. Additionally, the 'self-healing' feature is at its best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It doesnt have any built-in mechanism which can identify if any Physical Disk is corrupted. Only someone who has very sound knowledge of physical devices can do it easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.