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Top Answer: We are using it for monitoring all of our storage. Top Answer: The licensing model is complex and depends on factors such as the number of processing cores and the amount of storage. Top Answer: Integration with other vendors is not available. This feature would be very helpful. | Ask a question Earn 20 points |
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IBM Spectrum Scale is a cluster file system that provides concurrent access to a single file system or set of file systems from multiple nodes. The nodes can be SAN attached, network attached, a mixture of SAN attached and network attached, or in a shared nothing cluster configuration. This enables access to this common set of data to support a scale-out solution or to provide a high availability platform. IBM Spectrum Scale has many features beyond common data access including data replication, policy based storage management, and multi-site operations. You can create a cluster of AIX nodes, Linux nodes, Windows server nodes, or a mix of all three. IBM Spectrum Scale can run on virtualized instances providing common data access in environments, leverage logical partitioning, or other hypervisors. Multiple IBM Spectrum Scale clusters can share data within a location or across wide area network (WAN) connections. | IBM Spectrum Virtualize is a dependable solution that improves data value, security, and simplicity for new and existing storage infrastructure. Proven over 12 years in thousands of deployments, its innovative virtualization capabilities help organizations achieve better data economics by supporting new workloads that are critical to their success. IBM Spectrum Virtualize software helps make new and existing storage more effective and standardizes functions traditionally deployed separately in disk systems for greater flexibility and potentially lower costs. |
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Learn more about IBM Spectrum Scale | Learn more about IBM Spectrum Virtualize |
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Information Not Available | Pelephone, Sprint IT Enterprise Services |
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Financial Services Firm71% Comms Service Provider14% Computer Software Company14% Computer Software Company41% Comms Service Provider13% Educational Organization7% Manufacturing Company6% | Healthcare Company19% University13% Retailer13% Financial Services Firm13% Computer Software Company40% Comms Service Provider18% Manufacturing Company4% Educational Organization4% |
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Small Business13% Large Enterprise88% | Small Business26% Midsize Enterprise5% Large Enterprise68% |
IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.0, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "Storage system with good performance that has GPFS monitoring and NFS support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "A non-disruptive solution that does not require constant fine-tuning". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat Gluster Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Nutanix Acropolis AOS, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell EMC VPLEX, VMware vSAN, DataCore SANsymphony SDS, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
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