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What do you like most about IBM Spectrum Scale?
Top Answer:The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Spectrum Scale?
Top Answer:The pricing isn't too expensive. It's reasonable.
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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Scale?
Top Answer:The solution would benefit from being simplified. The scalability could be a bit better. It needs to be more flexible when it comes to expanding. It would be helpful if there was a graphical user… more »
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What do you like most about VMware Software Defined Storage?
Top Answer:The best part of the solution is that you can actually scale up to a large number of operating systems without additional hardware.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Software D...
Top Answer:I believe there is a yearly licensing fee of around $2000 - $5000. I don't think there are additional costs above that but it depends on the type of infrastructure you're booting. If it's very complex… more »
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What needs improvement with VMware Software Defined Storage?
Top Answer:The cost of the product is where an improvement could be made. It's generally very expensive and requires a lot of architecture that needs to be designed according to specific situations. If it could… more »
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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.

VMware software-defined storage is a simple, yet intelligent, storage data center architecture that aligns with business and application demands—eliminating static, purpose-built and inefficient hardware with dynamic, agile and automated solutions.

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Financial Services Firm63%
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Large Enterprise78%
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Midsize Enterprise11%
Large Enterprise58%
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IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews while VMware Software Defined Storage is ranked 21st in Software Defined Storage (SDS). IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.6, while VMware Software Defined Storage is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Cloud Object Storage and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas VMware Software Defined Storage is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), DataCore SANsymphony, StarWind Virtual Tape Library, Lightbits and Peaxy.

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