We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and VMware Software Defined Storage 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)."When we add storage behind it, the product is good for the customers because their customers do not notice that anything is happening due to the virtualization."
"It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."
"One of the main features of Spectrum Virtualize is it virtualizes the servers from the storage. We have a very large infrastructure. A major advantage is when you get the aged storage arrays and you have to replace all of those."
"The SVC gives excellent performance with tiered storage behind it."
"It lowers cost. It does so by getting more efficient use out of the technology behind it."
"There are many benefits to this solution. Storage virtualization and the ability to migrate massive amounts of data to other systems without impacting your client are the most valuable. It is non-disruptive for my users. We migrated 350 terabytes of data in one night to a new machine without a small system going down and a single user complaining about the performance. You have to fine-tune a lot of storage machines constantly for performance and for making sure that they are optimal, but IBM Spectrum Virtualize does this by itself. It does the adjustment on its own, and it does it right. That's what makes it different. I had a huge VSP from Hitachi, which is also a type of virtualization-based engine but with a decent size. It was a continuous performance-tuning exercise. I never had that issue with IBM Spectrum Virtualize."
"Using SBC, a valuable feature is the mirroring, which is the virtualization of the disk between disparate places."
"The scalability is very good. It can handle anywhere from very small to large enterprise class."
"The single management panel is the main feature that is wonderful for the customer."
"This is an easy-to-use product for adding flexibility to your storage solution."
"The best part of the solution is that you can actually scale up to a large number of operating systems without additional hardware."
"VMware Software Defined Storage gives higher availability against data corruption."
"They are actually working on one bug we found, which was with flash restore. This was the user interface design for virtual environments."
"The integration would be an option that we would like, but I understand that's not how it's going to be implemented."
"The Storwize port is not so stable."
"The solution could have a better built-in performance monitor."
"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."
"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"It doesn't have the ability to be deployed on any kind of hardware and network connectors."
"The performance is not as good as some competing products and reporting can be improved."
"I'd like to see improved hardware compatibility"
"VMware Software Defined Storage should include a shared database on a standard version."
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IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews while VMware Software Defined Storage is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while VMware Software Defined Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "A highly scalable product that is relatively easy to use and set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Software Defined Storage writes "A stable solution that can be used for database applications and virtualization for multiple locations". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas VMware Software Defined Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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