We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."Using SBC, a valuable feature is the mirroring, which is the virtualization of the disk between disparate places."
"The scalability is very good. It can handle anywhere from very small to large enterprise class."
"There are many benefits to this solution. Storage virtualization and the ability to migrate massive amounts of data to other systems without impacting your client are the most valuable. It is non-disruptive for my users. We migrated 350 terabytes of data in one night to a new machine without a small system going down and a single user complaining about the performance. You have to fine-tune a lot of storage machines constantly for performance and for making sure that they are optimal, but IBM Spectrum Virtualize does this by itself. It does the adjustment on its own, and it does it right. That's what makes it different. I had a huge VSP from Hitachi, which is also a type of virtualization-based engine but with a decent size. It was a continuous performance-tuning exercise. I never had that issue with IBM Spectrum Virtualize."
"We can failover easily, because a lot of our data is replicated from family to the second replication."
"I like that it can virtualize more than three hundred storage providers."
"It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."
"One of the main features of Spectrum Virtualize is it virtualizes the servers from the storage. We have a very large infrastructure. A major advantage is when you get the aged storage arrays and you have to replace all of those."
"It is a single pane of glass management interface, so once the storage is allocated to SVC, they only have one place to go to manage it for everything."
"Dell owns the EMC, EMC owns VMware, and there are many other interconnections throughout the industry which allows a fully integrated solution from a technical perspective."
"It makes for easier deployments through automation and improved accessibility."
"The solution is really stable."
"VxRail is an agile solution with easily scalable, simplify operations with software driven automation and lower operational cost."
"The technical support from Dell was very good."
"Compared with other products, the IT administrator or IT integrator doesn't take much time to get the tool up and running."
"We like the design and that it meets data storage needs."
"Enterprise is a complete solution that includes performance, backups and disaster recovery."
"I hate I/O groups. If you start swapping I/O groups, they can be potentially risky. If they could get rid of the whole I/O group principle, the risk is not there anymore. I understand the fundamental thing about I/O groups, but they are risky."
"The disk reliability is not that good."
"Anything which improves performance and the ability of our systems would be a nice."
"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."
"The only errors I find sometimes is the solution tells me I cannot operate it because a service has turned off, you can just go back to the VM, go to services, and turn back the services. However, this should improve."
"There are things that occur when you get to this size and capacity. We're very large, i.e., petabytes. When you get to that sheer volume of the numbers of things, it is too big for people to keep track of."
"There are big arrays now, and if a customer wants add more disks to it, you have to have another array. Adding disks to existing arrays is one of the most demanded things from our customers."
"The integration would be an option that we would like, but I understand that's not how it's going to be implemented."
"I would like to see VxRail add duplication features to its hybrid solution."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"The solution should facilitate the separate expansion of computing and storage."
"It might offer better integration with other products."
"Its price needs to be improved. It is very expensive. NSX should be licensed together. It will make the network virtualization layer more usable. It would be better if they come together in a bundle, not separately."
"The UI could be a little more informative."
"The solution should offer more integration with other virtual software. VxRail runs just with VMware, however, maybe it should integrate with Hyper-V or with KVM as well."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 35 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "Robust, stable, with good performance, and easy to implement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and FlexPod XCS.
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