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What is StorPool?

StorPool is intelligent storage software that runs on standard servers and builds scalable, high-performance storage system out of these servers (software-defined storage). It focuses on the block-level storage and excels at it. It is incredibly flexible and can be deployed in both converged setups (on compute nodes, alongside VMs and applications) or on separate storage nodes.

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StorPool is the #19 ranked solution in top Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions. PeerSpot users give StorPool an average rating of 10.0 out of 10. StorPool is most commonly compared to Red Hat Ceph Storage: StorPool vs Red Hat Ceph Storage. StorPool is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 39% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 22% of all views.
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As of April 2025, the mindshare of StorPool in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category stands at 2.5%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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TypeTitleDate
CategorySoftware Defined Storage (SDS)Apr 12, 2025Download
ProductReviews, tips, and advice from real usersApr 12, 2025Download
ComparisonStorPool vs StarWind Virtual SANApr 12, 2025Download
ComparisonStorPool vs Red Hat Ceph StorageApr 12, 2025Download
ComparisonStorPool vs Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)Apr 12, 2025Download
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Valuable Features

StorPool's valuable features include high performance, unlimited scalability, built-in redundancy, and cost-effectiveness. Users find managing StorPool simpler with its CLI and JSON API. Its integration with Open Nebula enhances flexibility, while its ability to quickly create snapshots and clones aids in migration projects. Its team is commended for their technological expertise and support. StorPool impresses with performance without penalties, making it ideal for I/O intensive tasks and ensuring stability for cloud environments.
  • "Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."
  • "The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."
  • "Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."

Room for Improvement

Users suggest enhancing StorPool with an intuitive user interface for better monitoring and statistics. They desire faster integration of new features, especially for VMware, as current support relies on iSCSI. A potential dashboard for health monitoring and performance analysis is mentioned as a future update. Users appreciate the system's performance and support, although they express a need for guidance on leveraging undiscovered features.
  • "I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."
  • "Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."
  • "Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."

ROI

StorPool's impact on ROI appears positive. Total Cost of Ownership decreased significantly. Users managed to reuse existing equipment, which contributed to cost-effectiveness. Utilizing commodity hardware provided a considerable advantage. Gross margin reportedly increased by approximately 15%. While cost per IOPS wasn't explicitly calculated, cost per GB was regarded as favorable.

Pricing

StorPool users report that the solution provides substantial cost savings with its pay-as-you-grow licensing model, enabling incremental storage scaling and reducing TCO. The pricing is considered transparent and flexible, although it is not the cheapest option. Users appreciate the high performance-to-price ratio and enterprise-grade support. The solution also allows for converged deployments, using the same servers for storage and compute, making it a worthwhile investment for enterprises seeking scalability and efficiency.
  • "It provides us with a significant reduction in TCO due to their pay-as-you-grow licensing model, which means we don’t have to pay upfront for hardware and licensing for capacity thStorPoolat we don’t yet need to use."
  • "StorPool software is cost-effective and gives us a pricing advantage over our competitors."
  • "StorPool's pricing and licensing model is very transparent. As always, one has to due his due diligence when choosing a product like distributed storage solutions."

Popular Use Cases

Organizations primarily use StorPool for distributed storage to offer high-availability and redundancy in hosting infrastructure, needing performance akin to local SSD storage. StorPool's SSD-Hybrid system delivers high IOPS at lower cost. Users benefit from scalability without hardware changes and low latency, integrated seamlessly with networking and computing elements. StorPool supports diverse setups across numerous global locations and enables integration with various platforms like OnApp, OpenNebula, and Jelastic, aiding in consistent service quality.

Service and Support

StorPool customer service and support are highly praised for their exceptional assistance during all phases, from demonstration to configuration. Their team is known for professionalism, competence, and responsiveness, consistently delivering expert advice and recommendations to optimize infrastructure. Users appreciate their commitment, emphasizing their readiness to provide swift, detailed responses. StorPool's engineers are described as partners who exceed expectations, facilitating quick deployments and ensuring users benefit greatly from their expertise and dedication.

Deployment

StorPool's initial setup process was straightforward and efficient. Their team provided extensive assistance, utilizing deep knowledge to facilitate deployment. Users appreciated the easy transition for existing clients. The setup, performed by StorPool, included necessary tests and upgrades. Customers managed to establish a working cluster swiftly and found the addition of new cluster members seamless. StorPool's commitment extended to researching updates, ensuring compatibility and smooth version upgrades.

Scalability

StorPool’s scalability impresses users by allowing effortless expansion through additional hardware. Users appreciate the seamless increase in usable space, with no disruptions, as their storage needs grow. Adding nodes enhances performance by re-balancing data, preventing hot spots. Multiple deployments in various locations confirm reliable scalability. Users have either expanded clusters or tested node addition without issues, making StorPool an ideal choice for growing infrastructure. The ease of upgrading drives and adding servers is frequently highlighted.

Stability

StorPool has demonstrated strong stability, with users reporting no issues, even when faced with significant challenges. They found it reliable, enabling cloud product marketing with confidence. It handled tasks smoothly over two years, making enhancements like compression and backups beneficial. Even during hypervisor failures, data protection remained intact.
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Top industries

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Computer Software Company
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Performing Arts
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Manufacturing Company
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Government
10%
Real Estate/Law Firm
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Comms Service Provider
4%
Educational Organization
4%
Legal Firm
4%
Leisure / Travel Company
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Logistics Company
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Media Company
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Construction Company
3%
Transportation Company
3%
Renewables & Environment Company
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Wellness & Fitness Company
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Hospitality Company
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Wholesaler/Distributor
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Healthcare Company
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StorPool has advanced fully-distributed architecture and is arguably the fastest and most efficient block-storage software on the market today. It is the best storage system when building a cloud.

StorPool customers

CloudSigma, Kualo, Togglebox, Neterra, Serveo, Superhosting.bg, GroupOne, DRFortress, Metanet, Dia, Server Storage Solutions

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President at eApps Hosting
Verified user of StorPool
Feb 10, 2019
Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency

What is our primary use case?

We initially started using StorPool at three locations with a capacity of 250+ TB.
By implementing StorPool, we managed to increase both our gross margins and performance, while decreasing the latency to 0.19-0.26 ms up to 125,000 IOPS.

How has it helped my organization?

We now deliver all-flash performance and improved uptime with an SSD-based shared storage system. The reliability was increased due to the resilience and quality of StorPool.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Operations Director at Kualo Limited
Verified user of StorPool
Oct 12, 2017
We have experienced no unplanned outages or performance issues

Pros

"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."

Cons

"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."

How has it helped my organization?

Since deploying StorPool, we have experienced no unplanned outages or performance issues. Our technical and engineering teams no longer live in a permanent state of high alert due to storage outages or throughput degradation due to ‘hot spots’ and as a result have more time to devote to other endeavours.

Our sales team is now confident to design solutions involving our cloud product because we're confident with the stability of the storage which underpins everything on the platform.

What is most valuable?

Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas - something no other product we have either tested or deployed has been able to do consistently.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Managing Director at CloudScale365, Inc.
Verified user of StorPool
Nov 24, 2021
Great service and support with a constant addition of new features

Pros

"Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time. "

Cons

"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them. "

What is our primary use case?

We are a hosting provider and use Storpool as our main storage solution. Our different platforms connect to the same storage system. We have connected it with OnApp, OpenNebula and Jelastic and have performed different integrations.

We currently have about five different Storpool clusters for our different zones which are shared within our multiple platforms. The integration has been seamless. Our clusters are spread in 2 data centers and allows us to offer different solutions to our customers with our platforms. 

How has it helped my organization?

Our previous storage system constantly caused us issues that resulted in losing customers due to outages. We would get at least 1 read-only scenario every week which may cause data corruption to our customers.

Storpool replaced our old storage system. It is extremely fast and reliable, which has translated to exceptional performance for our customers. This has helped to reduce the outages or impact caused by the storage solution.

Our support team can focus on fixing real customer issues instead of dealing with issues caused by the storage system.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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CEO
Verified user of StorPool
Apr 24, 2018
Speed of the solution allows us to provide service to I/O intensive applications

Pros

"With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node."

Cons

"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."

What is our primary use case?

We needed a distributed storage system to provide high-available solutions to our customers as well as to add a redundancy layer to our hosting infrastructure. Due to the high level of service we're offering and the high level of resource demands, we also needed the distributed storage system to be at least as fast as local SSD storage.

How has it helped my organization?

With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node.

*Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: My employer is a StorPool investor.
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President at eApps Hosting
Verified user of StorPool
Jun 25, 2017
StorPool delivers significantly enhanced performance

What is most valuable?

Managing StorPool is much simpler than our previous storage system, especially having a CLI option which our previous storage system was lacking.

How has it helped my organization?

Due to the reliability of StorPool and the high level of support by StorPool staff, we expect to spend less system admin time to run and operate the solution. This will allow our technical staff to focus on other duties and projects.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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CEO at a tech vendor
Verified user of StorPool
Apr 24, 2018
Enabled us to replace our SSD-only local storage without any performance penalty

Pros

"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system."

Cons

"It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."

What is our primary use case?

As we needed an all-SSD level of performance, StorPool implemented its SSD-Hybrid system, which keeps a full copy of data on SSD and redundant copies on HDDs to get the best of both - hundreds of thousands of IOPS and lower cost.

How has it helped my organization?

The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing.

We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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CEO & Founder at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Verified user of StorPool
Jun 25, 2017
Now we have more resources to concentrate on other research like virtualization layer, networking layer and automation.​

What is most valuable?

StorPool’s team has deep understanding about technology and help us:

- Tune our system or consult for further vHost.vn growth

- Coach our System Engineering to higher level with more information about tech in this industry.

How has it helped my organization?

In the past, if the server had problems, our system administrators had to go to the datacenter to fix and repair the hardware, the downtime increased even more. Nowadays, the whole sys admin team can work remotely and just start VPS on another spare dedicated server in datacenter with less downtime to our traditional VPS services.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Head of IT Services Operations Center at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Verified user of StorPool
Apr 24, 2018
Gives us top performance from our cloud service with low latency

Cons

"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."

What is our primary use case?

We started our cloud platform almost six years ago with OnApp. At that time, software defined storage was only a dream and we were forced to use traditional SAN. We were focused on performance, stability, and the possibility of expanding storage without changing hardware or buying new equipment. 

StorPool gave us all of these: unbeatable performance from our cloud service, low latency, and great support. Our customers are more than happy with the quality of our cloud platform and we are more than happy with StorPool storage.

How has it helped my organization?

We started our platform with ordinary storage solutions, but they led us to many problems that took a lot of time to debug and resolve. Since implementing StorPool we have not had any downtime. We have high-performance storage that we can expand if needed. We can also provide custom solutions, based on StorPool, that work for our clients.

StorPool software is also cost-effective and gives us a pricing advantage over our competitors.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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