We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Accelerate and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works."
"It is very easy to set up and very easy to use. It is very useful."
"The most valuable features are productivity and data storage."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"Instead of going for SAN storage, customers can use the scale-up and scale-out features of VMware vSAN."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the total hyperconverged facility."
"The most valuable features are the encryption, deduplication, compression, and the ability to manage all of your storage within your server rack."
"Technical support has been very good. They respond pretty fast, especially if we have a critical issue. Their responses have been great."
"The product’s ecosystem is better than Nutanix’s."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"In a future release, they can bring in the object storage capabilities to this solution. Currently, there is not any compatibility."
"Only the stretched cluster requires a minor improvement."
"Currently, one of the available features is shareable VMBKs. You can create the VMBK disc and you can make them shareable between the ends. But as soon as you start using this feature, you lose the ability to create snapshots."
"Virtual machines disk size cannot cap more than a single node. For a VDI user, it may not save enough to hold a file server or exchange server on a single node storage space."
"I would like more integration with the hardware when it comes to disc types and supporting the newer types of storage."
"If we have some complicated issues, you have to use the command lines interface. Not everything is possible to be fixed in the GUI. This is a drawback, that some things have to be fixed via command-line interface and should be able to be done in the GUI."
"In a future release, they could add micro-segmentation or security level features integrated into vSAN."
"When you upgrade the vSAN, there are some issues like lost data and problems with the log. The log disappears. When you upgrade the solution, you must have several logs, so if you have some problems, you can check the log server to find them."
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IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 22nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our IBM Spectrum Accelerate vs. VMware vSAN report.
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