ScaleIO [EOL] Room for Improvement

SK
Manager at Securetech

I the product already has scalability features, but in terms of size maybe they could do more to work with parent storage and move to high-level scaling. That area, I feel, is a place where there could be some more options in this solution. It would be a way to improve the scalability in another direction, maybe options to scale out rather than just up.  

So far we have done very few installations. So maybe in the coming days, weeks and months, we would be able to come up with some additional features that are needed, but right now the product has the competitive features that our clients need.  

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VG
Infrastructure Services System Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Ecosystem around the product: There is no built-in system for viewing history data, such as volume IOPS. We have to provide graphing by Prometheus and Grafana, which would be a good new feature in ScaleIO
  • The next good new feature would be moving volumes between different storage pools, e.g., from a SAS pool to a SSD pool. 
  • It would be nice to set minimum IOPS per volume, besides just the maximum, to be able to satisfy this demand from customers out-of-the-box, not by calculating number of disks, etc. 
  • It would be nice to have better integration with monitoring and other vendor provisioning and orchestration tools. I am aware that this is a hard to achieve task, where it is necessary for product not to be proprietary and to become industry standard.
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JH
Solution Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

If they could introduce a write cache feature, the product would be perfect overall.

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