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    StorPool

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AStorPool is a block-storage software that uses standard hardware and builds a storage system out of this hardware. It is installed on the servers and creates a shared storage pool from their local drives in these servers. Compared to traditional SANs, all-flash arrays, or other storage software StorPool is faster, more reliable and scalable.N/A
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    Considered Both Products
    StorPool
    Chose StorPool
    The flexibility to combine
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    Chose StorPool
    We made a very careful selection of our storage vendor and solution. After researching the newest technologies, our team decided to deploy a software-defined storage solution from StorPool.
    Incentivized
    Chose StorPool
    Along with StorPool, we also considered CEPH, LizardFS and some others. However the best price/performance ratio was delivered by StorPool.
    Incentivized
    Chose StorPool
    We used and/or tested several other solutions from various all-flash array and SDS vendors. We trust StorPool so much now, that we have consolidated our various storage systems and performance tiers on StorPool, globally.
    Incentivized
    Chose StorPool
    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 …
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    StarWind Virtual SAN
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    StorPool
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    StorPool
    Likelihood to Recommend
    StorPool
    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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    Pros
    StorPool
    • Distributed Storage array with very high throughput in terms of reading & write operations.
    • Horizontal scaling without much complexity of management.
    • Easily integrate with OpenStack cloud.
    • Doesn't depend on proprietary hardware, integrates with commodity hardware.
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    Cons
    StorPool
    • Graphical interface is for monitoring and stats, but not for operations.
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    StorPool
    We made a very careful selection of our storage vendor and solution. After researching the newest technologies, our team decided to deploy a software-defined storage solution from StorPool.
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    Return on Investment
    StorPool
    • We have not calculated precise ROI. We focused on getting the best solution at a reasonable price, based on market research. Initially, we didn’t need a lot of capacity, so we invested in servers and network, which could handle several times more capacity, but bought smaller drives to keep the investment low. We achieved a starting price of $3.2/GB usable and $1.4/GB logical. Later we expanded the capacity by adding more drives to the system. Currently, the system has a price of approximately $2.3/GB usable and $0.99/GB logical and a price of $0.09/IOPS.
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