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Likelihood to Recommend
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
It will be a very good decision to use Alibaba Object Storage Service if you need a good OSS at a cheap price. Alibaba is the answer to it, but you can't fully rely on it because sometimes on Southeast Asia server locations it will always have a high possibility of loss (can't be accessed, cant upload/download, etc.).
Software Developer
PT Indie Marketindo CeriaRetail, 11-50 employees
Red Hat Ceph Storage
It is absolutely, hands down the best storage solution for Open Stack. I would even argue it is the only solution if a company is operating at petabyte scale and need resiliency. The storage solution allows any organization to scale their environment using commodity hardware from top to bottom. It has a battle tested track record where it is even being used as the data storage back end for the Large Hadron Collider at Cern
DevOps Engineer
Voice Media GroupMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Pros
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
- Cheap
- Many location options
- Well documented
Software Developer
PT Indie Marketindo CeriaRetail, 11-50 employees
Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Very scalable solution
- Providing very fast storage
- Very good integration with KVM, libvirt and OpenStack through Cinder
Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure
open *i GmbHInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Cons
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
- Reliability
- Technical support
- Availability
Software Developer
PT Indie Marketindo CeriaRetail, 11-50 employees
Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Ceph is very difficult to set up when we used it. One had to be very careful in how they assigned their crush maps and cache tiering to get it to work right otherwise performance would be impacted and data would not be distributed evenly. From the .96 version I ran, it really is intended to be used for massive data centers in the petabytes. Beyond that the command line arguments for ceph-deploy and ceph are very involved. I would strongly recommend this as a back end for Open Stack with a dedicated Linux savvy storage engineer. Red Hat also said they are working to turn Calamari in to a full featured front end to manage OSD nodes which should make this much easier to manage in the future.
- It should not be run off of VMs themselves since it is not optimized for a VM Kernel. This advice is coming directly from Red Hat. Unfortunately this means that smaller use cases are out of the question since it literally requires 10 physical machines, each with their own OS to become individual OSD nodes.
- I believe this is an issue with the OSDs and not the monitors which ran fine for us in a virtual machine environment.
- We where looking at using this as a NFS work alike and in our experiments encountered a couple of issues. the MDS server struggled to mount the CephFS file system on more than a few systems without seizing up. This isn't a huge concern when it is used as a back end for Open Stack however when using this as shared storage for production data on a web cluster proved to be problematic to us. We also would have liked to have NFS access to the Ceph monitors so we could attach this to VMWare in order to store our VMDKs since VMWare does not support mounting CephFS. When we spoke with VMWare about 7 months ago they said NFS support is in the pipeline which will address all of these concerns.
DevOps Engineer
Voice Media GroupMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Alternatives Considered
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
Software Developer
PT Indie Marketindo CeriaRetail, 11-50 employees
Red Hat Ceph Storage
Red Hat Ceph storage offers an object store, which the other solutions do not. In addition, it is perfect for providing scalable block storage to virtualization products.
Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure
open *i GmbHInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
- Storage efficiency
- Cost efficiency
- Low-availability
Software Developer
PT Indie Marketindo CeriaRetail, 11-50 employees
Red Hat Ceph Storage
- CephFS was unable to handle several mounts at the same time. We will revisit NFS capabilities once available.
- We gained quit a bit of experience with Ceph and we have a cluster on hand if our storage vendor doesn't pan out at any time in the future.
- It had a negative impact in the time it took for us to test set up and test the cluster. Like I explained earlier, it was quite difficult to set up for experimentation. That said though, we have a very broad understanding of Ceph for our future products.
DevOps Engineer
Voice Media GroupMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Pricing Details
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Red Hat Ceph Storage
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No