> Op 21 apr 2024 om 17:14 heeft Anthony D'Atri <[email protected]> het 
> volgende geschreven:
> 
> Vendor lock-in only benefits vendors.

Strictly speaking, that isn’t necessarily true. Proprietary standards and the 
like *can* enhance user experience in some cases. Making it intentionally 
difficult to migrate is another story. 

> You’ll pay outrageously for support / maint then your gear goes EOL and 
> you’re trolling eBay for parts.   
> 
> With Ceph you use commodity servers, you can swap 100% of the hardware 
> without taking downtime with servers and drives of your choice.  And you get 
> the source code so worst case you can fix or customize.  Ask me sometime 
> about my experience with a certain proprietary HW vendor.  
> 
> Longhorn , openEBS I don’t know much about.  I suspect that they don’t offer 
> the richness of Ceph and that their communities are much smaller.  
> 
> Of course we’re biased here;)
> 
>> On Apr 21, 2024, at 5:21 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I have problem to answer to this question:
>> Why CEPH is better than other storage solutions?
>> 
>> I know this high level texts about
>> - scalability,
>> - flexibility,
>> - distributed,
>> - cost-Effectiveness
>> 
>> What convince me, but could be received also against, is ceph as a product 
>> has everything what I need it mean:
>> block storage (RBD),
>> file storage (CephFS),
>> object storage (S3, Swift)
>> and "plugins" to run NFS, NVMe over Fabric, NFS on object storage.
>> 
>> Also many other features which are usually sold as a option (mirroring, geo 
>> replication, etc) in paid solutions.
>> I have problem to write it done piece by piece.
>> I want convince my managers we are going in good direction.
>> 
>> Why not something from robin.io or purestorage, netapp, dell/EMC. From 
>> opensource longhorn or openEBS.
>> 
>> If you have ideas please write it.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> S.
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