We performed a comparison between Portworx Enterprise and Rancher Labs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Storage for Kubernetes solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best thing about Portworx is the Stork, they have called the VPS (Volume Replacement Strategy) and they also have topology awareness, and these are the three features I like."
"I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Portworx is a simple solution. It's similar to Pure Storage products. They're all easy to use and install. You need to have a little expertise with containers to use Portworx, but it will be no problem for you if you understand containers."
"Portworx virtualizes the aspects of the underlying block storage. That is good because they can also use block storage for their future deployment instead of just NFS."
"A custom IBM script is designed to tackle the storage management challenges within containerized environments, providing crucial data services and features required for enterprise applications."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"The product is simple to use for a beginner."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access."
"It would be highly advantageous to include an integrated backup solution within the same license, rather than purchasing backup separately."
"The documentation could be better."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems."
"They have not integrated Portworx with Ondat since they are too focused now on Pure Storage APIs and not on users like us."
"I think the vendor could provide more training for new users who may not be familiar with containers."
"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."
"While Rancher Labs provides some level of security, it's not considered very robust."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."
Portworx Enterprise is ranked 1st in Data Storage for Kubernetes with 6 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 3rd in Data Storage for Kubernetes with 14 reviews. Portworx Enterprise is rated 9.2, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Portworx Enterprise writes "A solution backed by strong customer support, that is stable and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Portworx Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Spectrum Scale and VMware vSAN, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Amazon EKS and Kubernetes. See our Portworx Enterprise vs. Rancher Labs report.
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