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StorPool Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8 out of 10
Score
8 out of 10

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Pros

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.

Reviews

5 Reviews

secrets of StorPool storage

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

1. Stability. 2. Horizontal Scaling with zero downtime. 3. Large number of IOPS.

SM
SUMAN MUKHOPADHYAY
AVP - Senior Director in Information Technology at EDGEVERVE SYSTEMS LTD (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
StorPool
2 years of experience

Maximum speed and storage at a reasonable price

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • 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.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Where high performance is required at a cost effective price point.

PD
Paul Davies
Director in Information Technology at Coreix Limited (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
StorPool
3 years of experience
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Storpool Distributed Block Storage

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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)<b>. </b>We now use StorPool as a building block for new clouds .

Pros

  • 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

  • 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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

MK
Michael Kutzner
CEO at virtion GmbH (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
StorPool
3 years of experience
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Storpool Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

We do recommend StorPool.

MV
Martin Vasev
Director of Support and DEVOPS (CTO) at CloudSigma (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
StorPool
5 years of experience
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Yes, we would definitely recommend StorPool.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Simplicity, compatibility, intuitiveness, scalable, great technical support team: Storpool.

VU
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
StorPool
3 years of experience