We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and IBM Spectrum Scale 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)."The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"GPFS monitoring is the best feature."
"The profile share is a valuable feature."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."
"Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"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 main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well."
"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."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, DDN IME, VMware vSAN and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
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