Red Hat Ceph Storage is a great storage solution, but the management console could be better
October 25, 2017
Red Hat Ceph Storage is a great storage solution, but the management console could be better
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Ceph Storage
I used Red Hat Ceph Storage by deploying it within a larger PoC setup for a customer. The customer required a storage solution for storing VM disks and user data (files etc.).
Red Hat Ceph Storage was also used as a storage backend for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
Since this was a PoC project, this solution was only used for a specific time.
Red Hat Ceph Storage was also used as a storage backend for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
Since this was a PoC project, this solution was only used for a specific time.
- Very scalable solution
- Providing very fast storage
- Very good integration with KVM, libvirt and OpenStack through Cinder
- Deployment of Ceph cluster through the Management Console might fail in some cases; better error reporting would be a good improvement there.
- The Management Console should provide more options for configuring the Ceph cluster in detail.
- There should be a mechanism for distributing ceph.conf to all nodes.
- Ceph allows my customer to scale out very fast.
- Ceph allows distributing storage objects through multiple server rooms.
- Ceph is fault-taulerant, meaning the customer can lose a server room and would still be able to access the storage.
- LizardFS, DRBD and GlusterFS
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.