We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Accelerate and IBM Spectrum Virtualize 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)."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."
"We can failover easily, because a lot of our data is replicated from family to the second replication."
"We are happy with the support that IBM provides us."
"The most valuable feature is its reliability."
"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."
"I like that it can virtualize more than three hundred storage providers."
"It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."
"It lowers cost. It does so by getting more efficient use out of the technology behind it."
"It is a single pane of glass management interface, so once the storage is allocated to SVC, they only have one place to go to manage it for everything."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"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."
"The Storwize port is not so stable."
"The solution could have a better built-in performance monitor."
"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites."
"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."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"GUI should be developed in HTML5 as opposed to Java."
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IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 22nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews. IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". 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". IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony.
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