| Features | Portworx | OpenShift Data Foundation |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Maturity | ✅Purpose-built for Kubernetes, in-production from 2014 | ❌Built on legacy CEPH-based storage, optimized for VMs and not Kubernetes |
| Flexible Data Management | ✅Kubernetes Data Management ranging from container-granularity to namespace | ❌Many tasks can only be implemented for the entire cluster |
| Application Performance | ✅Higher IOPs/throughput with lower the latency compared with similar-sized ODF clusters | ❌High performance requires significant investment in expensive hardware |
| Resource Footprint | ✅Portworx can support more pods on a typical instance | ❌Requires high levels of vCPU and RAM for even a small 3-node cluster |
| Day 2 Automation | ✅Built-in Day 2 Automation at enterprise scale | ❌Highly manual |
| Disaster Recovery | ✅Used in production since 2019, support for VMs and container apps | ❌Must failover to external cluster, comprehensive OSV DR support requires multiple products |
| Comprehensive Backup and Recovery | ✅Backup and recover VM and container appliations | ❌Support limited to container backup using open-source Velero |
| Simplified Platform Management | ✅Single platform with full enterprise data management functionality | ❌Relies on multiple 3rd party tools to address end-to-end storage lifecycle |
See why companies like these choose Portworx as their enterprise-grade storage for Red Hat OpenShift:
What sets Portworx apart from Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)
Accelerate Time to Revenue with Storage & Data Automation
Portworx provides an enterprise-grade container data management platform that automates storage processes, reduces friction, and delivers high performance for applications running on OpenShift. By contrast, OpenShift Data Foundation relies on stitching togethering multiple, manual processes that limit automation and prevent effective scaling for high performance applications
Portworx provides benefits include:
- Automated Day 2 Operations
- Consistent, streamlined, self-service developer experience across Kubernetes Distributions
- Built-in, automated high availability and scaling for modern databases
Architect Data Resiliency for Red Hat OpenShift
Portworx offers a wide range of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) tools built from the ground up to protect modern applications. This includes app-aware, container-granular snapshots, along with enterprise-tested synchronous and asynchronous DR solutions that can deployed across on-prem, cloud, hybrid or multicloud environments
Existing BCDR approaches for OpenShift Data Foundation often fall short for one of three reasons: (1) Lack of enterprise maturity; (2) heavy resource utilization due to reliance on CEPH for underlying storage foundation; (3) requirement to failover entire clusters instead of granular failover
Portworx provides benefits including:
- Flexible BCDR policies and granularity, ranging from Zero RPO to 15 minute RPO, and covering everything from a single namespace or entire cluster
- PX-DR sync and async DR used in production at enterprise-scale since 2019
- Portworx Backup provides app-aware, container granular backup, restore, and ransomware protection
Data Agility with unified management across hybrid, multicloud environments
Portworx provides a complete platform that delivers simplified, automated operations for storage and data services across any VM or container running on OpenShift across any on-prem, cloud, hybrid, or multicloud environment.
In contrast, OpenShift Data Foundation is limited to only support Red Hat OpenShift Clusters, offers limited support for managed OpenShift deployments, and relies on multiple tools to deliver complicated migration services between on-prem, public cloud, and multicloud deployments
Portworx provides benefits including:
- Portworx Volumes allow storage and data services to travel with application
- Portworx supports any container or VM application running on any Kubernetes distribution on any infrastructure including complete migration services
- Unified management of underlying infrastructure support for any VM or container app running on OpenShift
60 %
Reduce cloud storage costs by up to 60% for Kubernetes data and apps
5 X
Faster revenue growth attributed to enabling developer productivity
0 RPO
Achieve up to Zero RPO and <2 minutes RTO disaster recovery
Why Customers and Partners Love us:
Portworx not only provides over 10 times better performance than ODF (for this use case) but also significantly reduces resource consumption. This substantial performance enhancement has not only improved cost savings but has also notably enhanced the usability of the application. This transition to Portworx resulted in a remarkable estimated 63% reduction in overall.
Crossvale
63 %
reduction overall
The largest UK retail and commercial financial services provider, with 26 million customers and a leading digital presence was using Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) and struggling with stability, performance, resiliency, and security. They chose Portworx for addressing those challenges
Financial Institution
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Zero outages due to cluster failure
Portworx on Red Hat OpenShift Bare Metal
This reference architecture provides a validated model for deploying Portworx on Red Hat OpenShift running on bare metal servers.
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