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We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and Red Hat Gluster Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"GPFS monitoring is the best feature.""Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for.""We are using it for monitoring all of our storage.""The profile share is a valuable feature.""The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better.""We can have multiple systems within the same file system.""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.""The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."

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"The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided.""The technical support team is excellent.""It's very easy to upgrade storage."

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Cons
"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.""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.""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.""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.""Integration with other vendors is not available.""Maybe it needs integration with HA.""Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation."

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"The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage.""The user interface could be simplified.""The performance of the solution must be improved."

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  • "The licensing is based on the number of terabytes."
  • "The licensing model is complex and depends on factors such as the number of processing cores and the amount of storage."
  • "The solution is costly but reliable."
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  • "If you need cheap storage, but still need high availability, it's a good product to look at."
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    Top Answer:The performance of the solution must be improved.
    Top Answer:The solution is used in banks and financial institutions. Customers use the replicated configuration for high availability. They either use the native Gluster client or configure it with NFS… more »
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    Red Hat Gluster, Red Hat Storage Server
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    Overview
    IBM Spectrum Scale is a cluster file system that provides concurrent access to a single file system or set of file systems from multiple nodes. The nodes can be SAN attached, network attached, a mixture of SAN attached and network attached, or in a shared nothing cluster configuration. This enables access to this common set of data to support a scale-out solution or to provide a high availability platform. IBM Spectrum Scale has many features beyond common data access including data replication, policy based storage management, and multi-site operations. You can create a cluster of AIX nodes, Linux nodes, Windows server nodes, or a mix of all three. IBM Spectrum Scale can run on virtualized instances providing common data access in environments, leverage logical partitioning, or other hypervisors. Multiple IBM Spectrum Scale clusters can share data within a location or across wide area network (WAN) connections.

    Red Hat Gluster Storage (formerly known as Red Hat Storage Server) is a software-defined storage (SDS) platform designed to handle the requirements of traditional file storage—high-capacity tasks like backup and archival as well as high-performance tasks of analytics and virtualization. But unlike traditional storage systems, Red Hat Gluster Storage isn’t rigid and expensive. It easily scales across bare metal, virtual, container, and cloud deployments.

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    NTT Plala, McMaster University, University of Basque Country, Goodtech ASA, Cox Automotive, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), SaskTel, Glashart Media, Casio
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    Financial Services Firm63%
    Computer Software Company25%
    Comms Service Provider13%
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Government10%
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    Small Business30%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews while Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Gluster Storage writes "A scalable and easy-to-implement solution that has an excellent technical support team". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, VMware vSAN, DDN IME and IBM Cloud Object Storage, whereas Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, LizardFS, LINBIT SDS and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).

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