We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Accelerate and StorPool 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."
"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."
"The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are very I/O intensive."
"With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node."
"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."
"Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."
"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."
"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."
"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."
"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."
"It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."
"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."
IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 22nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while StorPool is ranked 20th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0, while StorPool is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorPool writes "Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency". IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale, whereas StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, LINBIT SDS, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN.
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