We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and Portworx Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Software Defined Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"It has been pretty reliable throughout the years. As far as capacity is concerned, it can handle most heavy loads."
"We can have multiple systems within the same file system."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads."
"The best thing about Portworx is the Stork, they have called the VPS (Volume Replacement Strategy) and they also have topology awareness, and these are the three features I like."
"Portworx is a simple solution. It's similar to Pure Storage products. They're all easy to use and install. You need to have a little expertise with containers to use Portworx, but it will be no problem for you if you understand containers."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"A custom IBM script is designed to tackle the storage management challenges within containerized environments, providing crucial data services and features required for enterprise applications."
"Portworx virtualizes the aspects of the underlying block storage. That is good because they can also use block storage for their future deployment instead of just NFS."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"It would be highly advantageous to include an integrated backup solution within the same license, rather than purchasing backup separately."
"The documentation could be better."
"I think the vendor could provide more training for new users who may not be familiar with containers."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"They have not integrated Portworx with Ondat since they are too focused now on Pure Storage APIs and not on users like us."
"I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems."
IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 3rd in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 10 reviews while Portworx Enterprise is ranked 2nd in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 6 reviews. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4, while Portworx Enterprise is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Portworx Enterprise writes "A solution backed by strong customer support, that is stable and scalable". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, DDN IME, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and IBM Cloud Object Storage, whereas Portworx Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Robin Cloud Native Storage for Kubernetes. See our IBM Spectrum Scale vs. Portworx Enterprise report.
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