User Reviews of IBM Spectrum Scale & StarWind HyperConverged Appliance
Updated March 2024
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IBM Spectrum Scale review
Senior Expert Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Storage system with good performance that has GPFS monitoring and NFS support
The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage. It can consume block storage, you can put it on from the storage and present the span over the fiber channel or iSCSI. The problem is that they have not been able to provide block storage consumable to the customer host. This is only a side-based solution. We can install...
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance review
Carl Marshall
Network Administrator at Winchester Utility System
Offers a failover cluster which combines storage, network, and compute resources...
CSVs require the storage to be configured through iSCSI, even though the storage is local. It imparts a small performance hit that's easily overshadowed by the performance increase from getting off 1GB ethernet. The Virtual SAN setup also requires more actual storage than a traditional SAN. My two-node cluster means I need double the amount...
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