We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."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."
"We are happy with the support that IBM provides us."
"It provides transparency, because of its advanced copy features."
"It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."
"The ability to have a feature-rich software set which extends the capabilities of the back-end storage arrays."
"When we add storage behind it, the product is good for the customers because their customers do not notice that anything is happening due to the virtualization."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity of use, the flexibility, and the options included. I mean, it's just a big time saver."
"I like all the features, but the most impressive recently has been the introduction of IBM's Flash Core Modules. They are a form of a flash drive, but they have many more features."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"They are actually working on one bug we found, which was with flash restore. This was the user interface design for virtual environments."
"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."
"In general, the migration is complicated. Though, it is case-by-case."
"GUI should be developed in HTML5 as opposed to Java."
"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."
"Anything which improves performance and the ability of our systems would be a nice."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 35 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 183 reviews. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our IBM Spectrum Virtualize vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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