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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.)
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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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"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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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

I prefere a connector for storage in vmware and hyper-v environment, not iscsi. We want a scalable architecture in building block. Before we have to plan storage investment and we aren’t able to be efficient and faster than business need. The configuration of the solution and the user interface are both quite good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

The management features are pretty good, but they still have room for improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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We use the on-premises deployment model.I'd rate the solution seven out of ten as it had some limitations when it comes to disk I/O . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're definitely seeing cost savings since we've implemented it.

We should have used the solution a long time ago as it appears to cost the business less money to run some of our data systems using it. . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

Its highly redundant system, even if we have harddrives OSDs down, storage node down , it keeps on running with same performance. Once its back up, the OSds rebalance itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

A little complex, dont have everything on clicks. Need to learn the technology and then play with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Its one of the most advance storage system that is resilient and has good performance.i would suggest to go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using some high performance computes to do most of the telco tasks , for which backend storage is Ceph. It provides clusters of large storages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

Availability, performance, ability to run on commodity hardware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

Heavy use of memory. Incomplete and sparse documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Having unlimited storage (ie ease of adding extra capacity whenever needed), spread of data with high redundancy and availability, geographic separation of data copies (via rgw) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

Massively scalable, great for data analysis, compatible with machine learning and AI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

So far , I didn’t find any negative points yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Best part of it is easily scalable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

Ceph is an enterprise grade open source storage technology. What I like best is it is a self healing designed group up to be highly available vs an after thought. I love that one storage technology can offer object/block/file and I don't have to have multiple vendors for each type. Opensource is the method to the future and I believe IF you MUST adopt an on prem storage Ceph is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

What I dislike is not specific to Ceph but specific to all on prem management. I believe the future in technology is going to be in the cloud. And management of even a mature technology like Ceph is not as attractive as adopting a fully managed storage platform in the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have recently not solved much with Ceph.

Disk failure in Ceph is a real problem and can cause some amount of annoyance but with Ceph the failover to other disks is very seamless making is an painless as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

There are some awesome concepts in the CEPH foundataion:

* scalability

* flexibility

* linear growth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

* Unfortunately, it is immature technology, however, it's growing rapidly.

* If your engineers have not enough knowledge about CEPH, they can occasionally destroy it.

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

We were creating SDS as product based on CEPH. The main idea was to share multiple iSCSI targets via multiple paths. It was production ready solution with real customers, as a result we made hundreds of CEPH clusters(0.87-12.2) and collected immense amount of experience in that. Let me share some examples:

* If you have time difference more then 30m, a CEPH cluster will stuck.

* If you change time back(1 ms is enough), a CEPH cluster will be crashed.

* Nobody checks crushmap instead of you. You have to understand what are you doing & how it is affecting a cluster.

* You can face tons of problems if you use not standard cluster name. i.e. after mounting images are presented in system using image name & pool name, it might be the same in another cluster, you will problem in that case.

* Before 12.2 ceph S3 implementation was extrimly immature.

* OSDs start via udev trigger, the interesting thing that you might face situation that there is no network at this time.

* Import-diff allows you to import a delta from another image. As a result you can lose data.

* It has not optimal recovery mechanism, as a result you face stucking on clients systems during recover.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

The flexibility to deliver object storage, block storage and file system storage as well as it's scalability and availability are it's strongest features. You can choose how tolerant to drive, nodes or even rack failures the system will be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

It is not for beginners. So you whether get your team trained or you'd have to get help from a partner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Storage Ceph:

Follow Ceph recommended hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're building a storage for our video workflow and for our private cloud. Ceph has all the features we need without any vendor lock-in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

system reliability does not raise questions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

I don't know, I had fallen in love with this software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Storage Ceph:

If you want to quick start with Ceph I recommend using this tutorial first:

https://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/start/quick-ceph-deploy/

using ceph-deploy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We built 7 nodes high available cluster for the medicine application. It was pretty great when some of the nodes went offline it's still work great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

Budget friendly in the sense that you can scale up later when you need and use that budget for other projects. Free Software that works in any hardware and easy scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

A few knows about it that you have to be in the Ceph Support Community to keep you updated and supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Storage Ceph:

You Love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Right now, one of our client isn't able to delete images but can create. Knowledge was my benefit since i get to know deeper with its architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Storage Ceph?

distributed open source solution of storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Storage Ceph?

not really, maybe there is a root for the performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

object storage and block storage for openstack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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