We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and Springpath [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)."Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"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."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"The profile share is a valuable feature."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"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 main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well."
"This is probably the biggest challenge, getting everything upgraded, because it just takes time. We wish it was a faster solution to be able to do everything at once, but you have do each node individually. The more nodes, the longer it takes."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, VMware vSAN, DDN IME and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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