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."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."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"GPFS monitoring is the best feature."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."
"The SVC gives excellent performance with tiered storage behind it."
"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."
"It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."
"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 scalability is very good. It can handle anywhere from very small to large enterprise class."
"We acquire companies (and things), so we end up with odd hardware. We bring it behind the SVC and it allows us to migrate stuff off of it seamlessly. SVC can also cover up a host of defects of the underlying storage."
"Although the GUI from the XIV was used (in my view), IBM has polished and refined the GUI providing a pleasant and easy to navigate GUI experience."
"Using SBC, a valuable feature is the mirroring, which is the virtualization of the disk between disparate places."
"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."
"The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."
"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."
"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."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"The only errors I find sometimes is the solution tells me I cannot operate it because a service has turned off, you can just go back to the VM, go to services, and turn back the services. However, this should improve."
"Anything which improves performance and the ability of our systems would be a nice."
"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"In general, the migration is complicated. Though, it is case-by-case."
"The integration would be an option that we would like, but I understand that's not how it's going to be implemented."
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, DDN IME, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VxRail, VMware vSAN, DataCore SANsymphony and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our IBM Spectrum Scale vs. IBM Spectrum Virtualize report.
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