We performed a comparison between HPE StorageWorks MSA and IBM XIV based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."The most valuable feature of HPE StorageWorks MSA is its flexibility."
"Monitoring is a very big thing. Other great features include block storage; volume creation and the data reliability scalability, which makes the solution really good."
"The product is very easy to deploy."
"HPE StorageWorks MSA is an entry-level, cost-effective solution for SMB customers."
"The most valuable features are the storage levels and snapshot features."
"The most valuable features were the dual controllers and being able to expand it."
"The solution is pretty transparent and works well."
"The simple configuration feature is great. It is very simple, allowing you to set up MSA very easily."
"Very easy to produce reporting data (Snaps). Very easy and fast for provisioning devices and Remote mirroring."
"As it spreads, a chuck of 1MB across the board means using all available spindles on the backend."
"Installation is amazingly easy."
"Hands down, this is the easiest storage platform on the market to manage."
"IBM XIV's most valuable features are NVME, especially when it comes to de-duplication, compression, and responsiveness."
"The performance and robustness of the systems are very good."
"The solution requires hardware."
"This product is getting a little bit older, so new features like deduplication are not included."
"Some clients have suggested room for improvement in expanding storage capacity beyond the base traces."
"The support contract is expensive, although they are very responsive."
"There is room for improvement in terms of scalability. There are times when we need to upgrade the device and the firmware. Sometimes, that can be a struggle."
"HPE StorageWorks MSA could maybe include a pay-top of texture feature or something like job replication."
"The solution's license should be integrated and not separate."
"Synchronized replication is very important for MSA; however, HPE StorageWorks MSA doesn't provide synchronized replication."
"IBM XIV's scalability is adequate for our requirements, but because it's modular, you can't scale to larger requirements."
"I would rather have a web GUI served directly from the unit, and a CLI accessible directly through SSH."
"This product was not a good fit for our organization as we have a ton of latency sensitive applications and XIV was not able to keep up with IO + latency demand."
"I encountered stability (performance) issues during enclosure or disk rebuild. Also some power supply issues due to malfunctions of circuits. Sometimes "internal" Snap sessions hang and consume pool capacity."
"Until the drive is replaced, the pool_resizing is locked."
"The change form synchronous mirroring to asynchronous (and vice versa) without reconfiguration from scratch would be helpful."
HPE StorageWorks MSA is ranked 5th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 reviews while IBM XIV is ranked 10th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 6 reviews. HPE StorageWorks MSA is rated 8.4, while IBM XIV is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of HPE StorageWorks MSA writes "An affordable solution for data storage but lacks cloud backup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM XIV writes "Using it behind the SAN volume controller, latency is predictable and it is reliable". HPE StorageWorks MSA is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, IBM FlashSystem, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Fujitsu Eternus DX400 series, whereas IBM XIV is most compared with IBM FlashSystem.
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