We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Virtualize based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can have multiple systems within the same file system."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"It makes our file system sharing a lot easier, even across different continents. We have had file systems shared across different continents with no performance degradation."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"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."
"Using SBC, a valuable feature is the mirroring, which is the virtualization of the disk between disparate places."
"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 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."
"The ability to have a feature-rich software set which extends the capabilities of the back-end storage arrays."
"The scalability is very good. It can handle anywhere from very small to large enterprise class."
"Maybe it needs integration with HA."
"The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"It would be helpful if there was a graphical user interface that could walk you through the deployment process. The instructions surrounding setup aren't the best. They need to be more step-by-step."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization."
"This is probably the biggest challenge, getting everything upgraded, because it just takes time. We wish it was a faster solution to be able to do everything at once, but you have do each node individually. The more nodes, the longer it takes."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"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."
"Tighter integration with cloud storage might be useful as a target for a variety of use cases."
"Anything which improves performance and the ability of our systems would be a nice."
"GUI should be developed in HTML5 as opposed to Java."
IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 35 reviews. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "Robust, stable, with good performance, and easy to implement". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, DDN IME and IBM Spectrum Accelerate, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our IBM Spectrum Scale vs. IBM Spectrum Virtualize report.
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