We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and IBM Spectrum Accelerate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"The solution is very stable."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"The most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works."
"The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."
"User interface could be improved."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 18th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0. 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 Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library, whereas IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale.
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