Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) vs StorPool

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Elastic Block storage is a great tool to augment your existing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and allows you a good way to add, move and adjust storage. It is great also for a back up solution for your virtual resources that are in the cloud to be used in cases of disaster recovery.

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Manager in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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Storpool performs well on block level (and that is what we use it for). It is not yet supporting a kind of distributed filesystem or object storage - a filesystem layer needs to be built on top of it.

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Michael Kutzner

CEO

virtion GmbHInternet, 1-10 employees

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Pros

A cost-effective way to provide storage to virtual machines
Easy and efficient way to create back ups of images
Very quick storage request and provisioning

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Manager in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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One of the attractions of StorPool was that it is a very technology-focused company and has highly talented individuals. We are confident, not only that the product was the right product, because of the design and the architectural aspects, but also that the team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider. For a cloud provider, the storage is a system which cannot be taken down, even for maintenance, because it’s impossible to coordinate thousands of customers regarding downtime. With StorPool, however, we don’t have to worry about that.

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Martin Vasev

Director of Support and DEVOPS (CTO)

CloudSigmaComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Cost can be confusing to determine
The initial learning curve can be confusing unless you know what's going on with AWS
You can lose track of EBS if you aren't organized

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Verified User

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Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support for VMware is with iSCSI at this point. This is fine, but we're waiting for the full VMware integration they are working on.

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Paul Davies

Director

Coreix LimitedInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) 8.0

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Amazon EBS is a great tool and fairly easy to use as long as you are familiar with the Amazon Web Service ecosystem. It allows a great way for you to move storage around easily and allows you to quickly provision storage as needed based on the business requirement. For us, it's easy to move between our EC2 images that had been linked with EBS storage between these Amazon accounts.

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Support Rating

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) 8.0

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The support for Amazon Elastic Block Store is great as long as you can articulate your needs. Like most tools, there may be some back and forth before you find a support person that is knowledgable in the tool and can provide you with necessary insights.

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Alternatives Considered

Amazon Elastic Block Store is a very good scaling solution for storage if you are invested in AWS. It provides a quick and easy way for you to easily get all the storage you need at and adjust it if you need more or less storage for your projects.

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We looked at Ceph. Ceph is believed to be good for block storage, but when we ran tests on similar hardware with both Ceph and StorPool, StorPool outperformed Ceph by an order of magnitude. Our main usage scenario is similar to the heavy workload OLTP (online transaction processing) and syncing random writes is of critical importance to our company. On similar hardware, StorPool is 30-40 times faster compared to Ceph for example.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Gives us an easy way to manage and move assets around VMs.
Allows a quick and easy way to clone existing images.
Gives us an efficient way to back up and restore images.

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Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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At this point we haven’t calculated it, as our case is complex, however, our research did find StorPool to be the solution with the best price/performance ratio.

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Michael Kutzner

CEO

virtion GmbHInternet, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No