We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and IBM Spectrum Virtualize based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"A very flexible solution."
"One of the main features of Spectrum Virtualize is it virtualizes the servers from the storage. We have a very large infrastructure. A major advantage is when you get the aged storage arrays and you have to replace all of those."
"It provides transparency, because of its advanced copy features."
"Migration from configurations where servers have storage provisioned from older SAN disk systems to newer storage systems is almost seamless using image mode migration techniques, with only a short outage of the servers."
"We are happy with the support that IBM provides us."
"I like all the features, but the most impressive recently has been the introduction of IBM's Flash Core Modules. They are a form of a flash drive, but they have many more features."
"I like that it can virtualize more than three hundred storage providers."
"We acquire companies (and things), so we end up with odd hardware. We bring it behind the SVC and it allows us to migrate stuff off of it seamlessly. SVC can also cover up a host of defects of the underlying storage."
"The ability to add the virtual machine on the Spectrum environment to sort out the data movers(DMs) and their schedules is a valuable feature. You are able to have, for example, four data movers to balance them so you do not have too much work on one data mover."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"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."
"User interface could be improved."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"Tighter integration with cloud storage might be useful as a target for a variety of use cases."
"I already discussed possible improvements with some of the guys from Hearnsley. One of our frustrations is when you go to expand volumes in a global mirror environment, you have to stop everything in order to expand. So that's one of the things."
"In general, the migration is complicated. Though, it is case-by-case."
"There are big arrays now, and if a customer wants add more disks to it, you have to have another array. Adding disks to existing arrays is one of the most demanded things from our customers."
"The only errors I find sometimes is the solution tells me I cannot operate it because a service has turned off, you can just go back to the VM, go to services, and turn back the services. However, this should improve."
"They are actually working on one bug we found, which was with flash restore. This was the user interface design for virtual environments."
"I hate I/O groups. If you start swapping I/O groups, they can be potentially risky. If they could get rid of the whole I/O group principle, the risk is not there anymore. I understand the fundamental thing about I/O groups, but they are risky."
HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8. 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 Virtualize writes "A highly scalable product that is relatively easy to use and set up". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony.
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