We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and Nutanix Unified Storage 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."It makes our file system sharing a lot easier, even across different continents. We have had file systems shared across different continents with no performance degradation."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"We can have multiple systems within the same file system."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"The profile share is a valuable feature."
"It has been pretty reliable throughout the years. As far as capacity is concerned, it can handle most heavy loads."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"What I like most about Nutanix Files Storage is the way it makes copies of the data. The solution also has high availability, which is excellent. Another valuable feature of Nutanix Files Storage is self-service, so users won't have to depend on the IT team much."
"The most valuable features are the interface and support."
"The most valuable feature is the unified dashboard, as it allows us to easily observe everything from a single location."
"We can utilize mixed storage block-sized objects and combine various databases within a unified interface."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"Nutanix Volumes is a perfectly stable product."
"Maybe it needs integration with HA."
"We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization."
"This is probably the biggest challenge, getting everything upgraded, because it just takes time. We wish it was a faster solution to be able to do everything at once, but you have do each node individually. The more nodes, the longer it takes."
"It would be helpful if there was a graphical user interface that could walk you through the deployment process. The instructions surrounding setup aren't the best. They need to be more step-by-step."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"The main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"Lowering the price would improve this product."
"It is challenging to configure access control settings."
"Allowing the use of the Gflag compromises the integrity of the Nutanix system and its established standards."
"With all of the Nutanix equipment, the licensing is expensive. We operate in the enterprise space, but we're a midsized company. At times, the price tag is a little bit shocking for a company with only 35 employees."
"We have issues with software updates occasionally."
"The solution should increase its storage capabilities."
"We have some problems with Nutanix Unified Storage's support because they asked us to change our hardware."
IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, DDN IME, VMware vSAN and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Qumulo. See our IBM Spectrum Scale vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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