We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and VMware vSAN 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."It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"The profile share is a valuable feature."
"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."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"We can have multiple systems within the same file system."
"We had very good access to technical support."
"It is very easy to set up and very easy to use. It is very useful."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the simplification of storage. We no longer need to deal with Fibre Channel and the external storage arrays."
"The most valuable features are secure IOPs and LAN security."
"Instead of going for SAN storage, customers can use the scale-up and scale-out features of VMware vSAN."
"This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created."
"vSAN can help customers save on storage system costs, and also save on the human cost."
"Maybe it needs integration with HA."
"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."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"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."
"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."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"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."
"I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment."
"When we talk about improvements for vSAN, there is some way to go from a at least stability perspective. Adding all these new features is nice, but we are now at the level that most of the features you need in production are there."
"External storage would be a good thing to have in the next release, something other than iSCZI, something a little more, not HA, a little more production-oriented, than iSCZI."
"I would like compression and deduplication to be offered for offloading hardware, instead of doing it with software. That would be nice."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"This solution is not great for large file shares/object/rich media repository."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having better integration with other vendors and the storage is limited, I prefer it to the traditional storage."
"They can improve the manageability of the solution to make it more simple. It is not that complicated, but it will be good if they can make it more simple."
IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, DDN IME, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and IBM Cloud Object Storage, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex. See our IBM Spectrum Scale vs. VMware vSAN report.
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