We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Virtualize based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"We can have multiple systems within the same file system."
"GPFS monitoring is the best feature."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity of use, the flexibility, and the options included. I mean, it's just a big time saver."
"The abstraction flair and the abstraction layer. We had a mixture of different storage arrays, and the wonderful thing about SVC is is that it normalizes all it into a single driver. A single view that all hosts see simultaneously."
"We can failover easily, because a lot of our data is replicated from family to the second replication."
"Although the GUI from the XIV was used (in my view), IBM has polished and refined the GUI providing a pleasant and easy to navigate GUI experience."
"It's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."
"The ability to have a feature-rich software set which extends the capabilities of the back-end storage arrays."
"The ability to add the virtual machine on the Spectrum environment to sort out the data movers(DMs) and their schedules is a valuable feature. You are able to have, for example, four data movers to balance them so you do not have too much work on one data mover."
"Compared to other storage vendors, the solution is quite convenient to use."
"Maybe it needs integration with HA."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization."
"The main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"It would be helpful if there was a graphical user interface that could walk you through the deployment process. The instructions surrounding setup aren't the best. They need to be more step-by-step."
"The Storwize port is not so stable."
"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."
"GUI should be developed in HTML5 as opposed to Java."
"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."
"There are big arrays now, and if a customer wants add more disks to it, you have to have another array. Adding disks to existing arrays is one of the most demanded things from our customers."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites."
IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.6, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". 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 Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, VMware vSAN, DDN IME and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, DataCore SANsymphony and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our IBM Spectrum Scale vs. IBM Spectrum Virtualize report.
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