We performed a comparison between Portworx Enterprise and Rancher Labs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Storage for Kubernetes solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Portworx is a simple solution. It's similar to Pure Storage products. They're all easy to use and install. You need to have a little expertise with containers to use Portworx, but it will be no problem for you if you understand containers."
"I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads."
"A custom IBM script is designed to tackle the storage management challenges within containerized environments, providing crucial data services and features required for enterprise applications."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Portworx virtualizes the aspects of the underlying block storage. That is good because they can also use block storage for their future deployment instead of just NFS."
"The best thing about Portworx is the Stork, they have called the VPS (Volume Replacement Strategy) and they also have topology awareness, and these are the three features I like."
"A great UI with very good integrations."
"The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment."
"The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"They have not integrated Portworx with Ondat since they are too focused now on Pure Storage APIs and not on users like us."
"I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems."
"I think the vendor could provide more training for new users who may not be familiar with containers."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"It would be highly advantageous to include an integrated backup solution within the same license, rather than purchasing backup separately."
"The documentation could be better."
"We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."
"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
Portworx Enterprise is ranked 1st in Data Storage for Kubernetes with 6 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 3rd in Data Storage for Kubernetes with 13 reviews. Portworx Enterprise is rated 9.2, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Portworx Enterprise writes "A solution backed by strong customer support, that is stable and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Portworx Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Spectrum Scale and VMware vSAN, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Amazon EKS and Kubernetes. See our Portworx Enterprise vs. Rancher Labs report.
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