We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and Maxta [EOL] 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 are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"The profile share is a valuable feature."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."
"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."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"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 solution's pricing could be better."
"The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."
"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."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"Maybe it needs integration with HA."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation."
"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 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4, while Maxta [EOL] 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 [EOL] 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, VMware vSAN, DDN IME and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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