Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux

Vitastor is described as 'Small, simple and fast clustered block storage (storage for VM drives), architecturally similar to Ceph which means strong consistency, primary-replication, symmetric clustering and automatic data distribution over any number of drives' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Vitastor for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, CentOS, Fedora and VMware vSphere Hypervisor apps. The best Vitastor alternative is Ceph, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vitastor are GlusterFS, Google Cloud Filestore, Litestream and Elliptics.
Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.

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