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Users have reported that StorPool provides a well-organized application with ample storage space and easy access methods, allowing for effective storage management. The cloud functionality of StorPool has helped users gain a better understanding of storage and cloud operations. Users appreciate the scanning process in StorPool that ensures the necessary security standards are met, offering them a secure storage solution. 

One of the key advantages of StorPool is its ability to scale easily at a predictable cost. Users have found it convenient to add commodity flash drives to increase their storage capacity. By consolidating multiple storage arrays into a single cluster, StorPool has helped users reduce power consumption, improve performance, and lower storage switch costs. Managed services or cloud companies seeking a solution for their storage challenges have found StorPool to be highly recommended.

In cases where users faced issues with speed and reliability in their existing storage solutions, StorPool has proven to provide better service, enabling them to scale their storage needs on a pay-as-you-grow basis. Coreix's customers, in particular, have experienced improved uptime, availability, and flash performance with StorPool, making it an optimal choice for those requiring these features. 

When it comes to distributed shared storage, StorPool stands out for its capabilities and surpasses other solutions in this category. Its software-defined storage delivers exceptional performance at affordable prices, appealing to users who seek value for their investment. With seamless integration with networking and computing components, users can customize deployment models according to their specific requirements. StorPool has also been successfully deployed in hyper-converged setups, providing high availability and built-in disaster recovery for mission-critical workloads.

Furthermore, StorPool serves as a foundational element for new clouds, catering to public, hybrid, and private cloud customers. Its tight integration with OpenStack Cloud allows for application performance benchmarking and large IO throughput.

Great Look and Feel: Users have consistently praised the attractive and intuitive interface of the StorPool application, contributing to an overall excellent user experience. The visually appealing design and smooth navigation enhance the usability of the platform.

Easy to Use: Reviewers unanimously agree that StorPool is incredibly user-friendly due to its straightforward and intuitive interface. Even users with minimal technical expertise can quickly grasp how to navigate and utilize the various features of the application.

Flexibility in Access: One notable advantage of StorPool is its ability to provide both cloud-based and offline access to stored content. This flexibility allows users to conveniently access their data from anywhere at any time, ensuring seamless availability regardless of network connectivity.

Disabled Features: Some users have mentioned that they encountered disabled features in StorPool, limiting their ability to fully utilize the application. These disabled features have been a source of frustration for these users.

Lack of Key Features: Several reviewers expressed disappointment with StorPool's lack of support for vVols, dedupe, and compression. They consider these features to be important additions that would enhance their experience with the application and provide greater efficiency in managing storage resources.

Limited GUI Functionality: The graphical interface of StorPool currently only provides monitoring and statistics capabilities, without offering operational functionalities. This limitation has been a concern raised by multiple users who would like more comprehensive control options through the GUI interface. They believe that having operational capabilities within the graphical interface would greatly improve usability and convenience.

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The StorPool Storage solution is tightly integrated with our OpenStack Cloud for Application Performance benchmarking. It's used across several application developments and performance testing which necessitates large IO throughput.

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.

Integration between SAN storage and StorPool.
The total cost of ownership.
Supporting fibre channel uplink.

Higher Performance: Works much closer to the hardware, so it is much closer to the raw IO speeds of the underlying hardware.
Scalability & Flexibility: A cluster is a flat hierarchy of drives and new drives can be added or removed at any time.
Scale-out, not Scale-Up - The solution is fundamentally about scaling by adding more drives or nodes rather than scaling up (adding capacity by replacing a storage box with a larger storage box). can grow without interruption and in small steps - one hard drive, one server, and one network interface at a time.

Stability of environment.
Ease of implementation.
Ease of doing business transactions with StorPool.

Rackspace OpenStack, Red Hat Ceph Storage

We did 2 hyper-converged setups, connected to a redundant 10Gbit multipath storage network with SSD drives, managed by KVM and OpenNebula. The set-up runs mission-critical workloads and has high-availability and built-in disaster recovery (DR). We now use StorPool as a building block for new clouds .

We chose StorPool not just because of the better price/performance ratio, but also because StorPool managed to offer us smooth implementation without an impact on our production environment. StorPool’s biggest advantages are the high availability of the system, hardware failure handling, and performance. The OpenNebula integration and ease of operation were also crucial.

Cons - 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.

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.

We have 12 active locations around the world and a number of new locations in development, which makes our case more complex. We were looking for flexibility in the deployment model, allowing to tailor the storage solution to the specific requirements of every location. StorPool’s storage solution integrated seamlessly with the networking and computing pieces. For instance, in Zurich, our largest cloud, StorPool was deployed in a semi-converged setup which combines converged all-SSD nodes (running both applications and storage) with separate storage-only HDD nodes. In other locations where the power density is lower, the optimal setup is different and in that case is used a fully converged set.

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.

Graphical interface is for monitoring and stats, but not for operations.

By using StorPool we achieved over a 15% increase in our gross margin and that is huge for a service provider. To be able to increase our gross margin by adopting a new storage system and at the same time increase performance significantly, that’s really a major change. From a commercial perspective aſter adopting StorPool we’ve been able to achieve a much more efficient fabric that’s allowing us to sell more services on the same hardware.

We initially installed StorPool soſtware onto our public cloud servers. Following this installation, we plan to deploy StorPool to serve our hybrid and private cloud customers as well.

The performance of hundreds of thousands of IOPS and throughput of tens of GB/s. Some other factors such as cost-efficiency, implementation, and support also helped StorPool stand out in the decision-making process.

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.

At this moment we haven’t yet calculated exactly the ROI. Our main focus is to secure the best performance on a reasonable price and that's exactly what we got when we started working with Storpool.

The initial deployment was just 4 servers, connected to a redundant 10 Gbit Ethernet network with 2x10 GE Mellanox switches. Our start capacity requirement was only 7 TB of total usable space, distributed between all servers.

Simplicity and compatibility - StorPool is intuitive and can be managed with minimal training.
StorPool also proved to be very scalable and easy to deploy.
StorPool has a great technical support team - quick and professional. In many cases, they walk the extra mile to advise us on all aspects of our cloud - from hardware selection to soſtware solutions.

Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy, although StorPool is working on a new version.

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.