User Reviews of IBM Spectrum Virtualize & StarWind HyperConverged Appliance

Updated March 2024

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize review

reviewer1264842
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Enables us to build an infrastructure and replace storage with no disruption to...
It enabled us to build an infrastructure and replace storage with no disruption to our hosts whatsoever. It's an amazing capability, and we stayed with it. I loved the product so much that while I had learned about several other products, none of them compares unless you're looking for a precise capability. This is a general-purpose but...
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance review

Carl Marshall
Carl Marshall
Network Administrator at Winchester Utility System
Offers a failover cluster which combines storage, network, and compute resources...
CSVs require the storage to be configured through iSCSI, even though the storage is local. It imparts a small performance hit that's easily overshadowed by the performance increase from getting off 1GB ethernet. The Virtual SAN setup also requires more actual storage than a traditional SAN. My two-node cluster means I need double the amount...

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