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Top Answer: We are using it for monitoring all of our storage. Top Answer: The licensing model is complex and depends on factors such as the number of processing cores and the amount of storage. Top Answer: Integration with other vendors is not available. This feature would be very helpful. | Top Answer: very helpful post Top Answer: Nutanix is intelligent hyper-convergent |
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IBM Spectrum Scale is a cluster file system that provides concurrent access to a single file system or set of file systems from multiple nodes. The nodes can be SAN attached, network attached, a mixture of SAN attached and network attached, or in a shared nothing cluster configuration. This enables access to this common set of data to support a scale-out solution or to provide a high availability platform. IBM Spectrum Scale has many features beyond common data access including data replication, policy based storage management, and multi-site operations. You can create a cluster of AIX nodes, Linux nodes, Windows server nodes, or a mix of all three. IBM Spectrum Scale can run on virtualized instances providing common data access in environments, leverage logical partitioning, or other hypervisors. Multiple IBM Spectrum Scale clusters can share data within a location or across wide area network (WAN) connections. | VMware vSAN is the industry-leading software powering Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solutions. What vSAN Does
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Financial Services Firm71% Comms Service Provider14% Computer Software Company14% Computer Software Company41% Comms Service Provider13% Educational Organization7% Manufacturing Company6% | Healthcare Company16% Retailer12% Financial Services Firm9% Energy/Utilities Company7% Computer Software Company35% Comms Service Provider19% Manufacturing Company5% Government5% |
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Small Business13% Large Enterprise88% | Small Business29% Midsize Enterprise17% Large Enterprise53% Small Business11% Midsize Enterprise9% Large Enterprise80% |
IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 16 reviews. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "Storage system with good performance that has GPFS monitoring and NFS support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat Gluster Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Spectrum Virtualize and Nutanix Acropolis AOS, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VxRail, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE SimpliVity.
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