We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and Veritas Access Appliance 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 has been pretty reliable throughout the years. As far as capacity is concerned, it can handle most heavy loads."
"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."
"GPFS monitoring is the best feature."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"We can have multiple systems within the same file system."
"It is a very stable program."
"Overall the solution works 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."
"Maybe it needs integration with HA."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"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."
"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 pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"The Veritas support for Access Appliance could improve. They are a pioneer in the industry, and they provide an enterprise-level solution. However, when comparing the storage, they can't compete with the NetBackup solution."
"I would like to see more platforms added."
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IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews while Veritas Access Appliance is ranked 23rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS). IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4, while Veritas Access Appliance is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Access Appliance writes "Overall functions well, stable, but technical support could improve". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, VMware vSAN, DDN IME and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas Veritas Access Appliance is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Veritas Access, LINBIT SDS and Portworx Enterprise.
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