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What is IBM Storage Ceph?

IBM Storage Ceph is a massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system. It is comprised of an object store, block store, and a distributed file system.

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IBM Storage Ceph is a massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system. It is comprised of an object store, block store, and a distributed file system.


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Amgad A.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Reliable Storage!!"
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 ...
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1.0 out of 5
"Not an all purpose storage"
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.
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Self healing easy administration Lots of features
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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

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Using Red Hat Ceph storage will allow you to minimise the operation cost and will save a lot of troubleshooting time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Storage Ceph solving and how is that benefiting you?

Red Hat Ceph storage helps us to provide a reliable Cloud because of the data replication inside the Ceph storage cluster. Also the hot-swap for the OSDs so we are doing the storage operations while it's carrying a production traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

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

What problems is IBM Storage Ceph solving and how is that benefiting you?

The aspect of Red Hat Ceph Storage that I found most beneficial is integration, as this is where the advantages of integration are discovered when discussing a solution made entirely of Red Hat products. Because everything comes from a single plug, Red Hat Ceph Storage, in particular, becomes a single solution for controlling the complete environment in terms of the container, the infrastructure, or the worker nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

What problems is IBM Storage Ceph solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Red Hat Ceph as an al purpose cheap storage on commodity hardware. Accessing data through iSCSI, s3 object store and CephFS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

Self healing

easy administration

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

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

No issues

No need of special training

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

What problems is IBM Storage Ceph solving and how is that benefiting you?

Heavy cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

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 do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

What problems is IBM Storage Ceph solving and how is that benefiting you?

Red Hat Ceph allows me to easy migrate the VNFs. its easy to monitor the storage performance. Also its easy to swap the OSDs while the VNFs in production without outage time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jasmeet singh V.
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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

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

What problems is IBM Storage Ceph solving and how is that benefiting you?

we have created a project which has driver for different on premises storages like ceph, lvm , netapp, ontapp , hp nimble so this drivers communicate with bottom layers of this storages and help us to create a storage for us .

which can be used as a block volume or in csi drivers which will allocate storages to the pods inside the kubernetes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Storage Ceph:

Kindly go through multiple documents for setting up Ceph storage successfully. Without any prior knowledge, you might compromise the system's security. If the storage setup is not working as expected it is better to check if any disk is corrupted and the setup is right or not. every step needs to be checked with precision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Storage Ceph solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scalability is very much resolved which is not possible in the case of other tools. Like a disk or storage can be easily added or removed which is important in today's scenario in which downtime and uptime of storage matters a lot. Also, the best thing is the self-healing feature which Ceph storage posses as an open-source product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

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

What problems is IBM Storage Ceph solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main idea was to share multiple iSCSI targets via multiple paths

improve Disk failure issue or Disk corruption Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

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.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Storage Ceph:

Security and Scalability is one of the principle aspects for any Data Centers wordwide; thus, storage techs in means of Security and Scalability will normally have far-reaching consequences. Among many storage solutions these days is CEPH, which acts as a viable solution when it comes to migrate your Data Center securely. Her awe-inspiring features, such as being the speedstar of scalability and healing, makes her the front runner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Storage Ceph solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is really safe to replace the corrupted physical disks anytime. During the migration for grameenphone, there was ZERO storage downtime, Although mapping took some time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.