We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and Maxta Hyperconvergence Software 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)."We can have multiple systems within the same file system."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"It makes our file system sharing a lot easier, even across different continents. We have had file systems shared across different continents with no performance degradation."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"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."
"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."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews while Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 32nd in HCI. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4, while Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Maxta Hyperconvergence Software writes "Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, DDN IME, VMware vSAN and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is most compared with .
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