We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Accelerate and IBM Spectrum Virtualize based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works."
"Using SBC, a valuable feature is the mirroring, which is the virtualization of the disk between disparate places."
"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."
"It lowers cost. It does so by getting more efficient use out of the technology behind it."
"It is a single pane of glass management interface, so once the storage is allocated to SVC, they only have one place to go to manage it for everything."
"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's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."
"We are happy with the support that IBM provides us."
"There are many benefits to this solution. Storage virtualization and the ability to migrate massive amounts of data to other systems without impacting your client are the most valuable. It is non-disruptive for my users. We migrated 350 terabytes of data in one night to a new machine without a small system going down and a single user complaining about the performance. You have to fine-tune a lot of storage machines constantly for performance and for making sure that they are optimal, but IBM Spectrum Virtualize does this by itself. It does the adjustment on its own, and it does it right. That's what makes it different. I had a huge VSP from Hitachi, which is also a type of virtualization-based engine but with a decent size. It was a continuous performance-tuning exercise. I never had that issue with IBM Spectrum Virtualize."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"They are actually working on one bug we found, which was with flash restore. This was the user interface design for virtual environments."
"Tighter integration with cloud storage might be useful as a target for a variety of use cases."
"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."
"I already discussed possible improvements with some of the guys from Hearnsley. One of our frustrations is when you go to expand volumes in a global mirror environment, you have to stop everything in order to expand. So that's one of the things."
"The solution could have a better built-in performance monitor."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"The disk reliability is not that good."
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IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 22nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews. IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "A highly scalable product that is relatively easy to use and set up". IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony.
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