User Reviews of IBM Spectrum Scale & VMware vSAN

Updated March 2024

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IBM Spectrum Scale review

reviewer1249170
Senior Expert Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Storage system with good performance that has GPFS monitoring and NFS support
The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage. It can consume block storage, you can put it on from the storage and present the span over the fiber channel or iSCSI. The problem is that they have not been able to provide block storage consumable to the customer host. This is only a side-based solution. We can install...
VMware vSAN review

SigfridCecillon
SigfridCecillon
Director at Arsium
Seamlessly integrates with the VMware environment and easy to setup
Scalability is not as simple as expected. While it's okay, there are restrictions and complexities. For instance, you need a minimum number of servers for certain functionalities, making it less flexible to adapt. I don't know the prerequisites listed by VMware that are not allowed. Initially, you need to have three servers, for example,...

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