We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and IBM Spectrum Scale based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"A company can scale it easily."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The solution is very stable."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"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."
"The profile share is a valuable feature."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"User interface could be improved."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"It is a costly solution."
"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."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"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 pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."
"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."
"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."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, DDN IME, VMware vSAN and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. IBM Spectrum Scale report.
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