We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and Maxta Hyperconvergence Software 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)."Using SBC, a valuable feature is the mirroring, which is the virtualization of the disk between disparate places."
"It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."
"There are many benefits to this solution. Storage virtualization and the ability to migrate massive amounts of data to other systems without impacting your client are the most valuable. It is non-disruptive for my users. We migrated 350 terabytes of data in one night to a new machine without a small system going down and a single user complaining about the performance. You have to fine-tune a lot of storage machines constantly for performance and for making sure that they are optimal, but IBM Spectrum Virtualize does this by itself. It does the adjustment on its own, and it does it right. That's what makes it different. I had a huge VSP from Hitachi, which is also a type of virtualization-based engine but with a decent size. It was a continuous performance-tuning exercise. I never had that issue with IBM Spectrum Virtualize."
"The ability to have a feature-rich software set which extends the capabilities of the back-end storage arrays."
"It lowers cost. It does so by getting more efficient use out of the technology behind it."
"Migration from configurations where servers have storage provisioned from older SAN disk systems to newer storage systems is almost seamless using image mode migration techniques, with only a short outage of the servers."
"When we add storage behind it, the product is good for the customers because their customers do not notice that anything is happening due to the virtualization."
"Although the GUI from the XIV was used (in my view), IBM has polished and refined the GUI providing a pleasant and easy to navigate GUI experience."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"In general, the migration is complicated. Though, it is case-by-case."
"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."
"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"There are things that occur when you get to this size and capacity. We're very large, i.e., petabytes. When you get to that sheer volume of the numbers of things, it is too big for people to keep track of."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"The only errors I find sometimes is the solution tells me I cannot operate it because a service has turned off, you can just go back to the VM, go to services, and turn back the services. However, this should improve."
"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 35 reviews while Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 32nd in HCI. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "Robust, stable, with good performance, and easy to implement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Maxta Hyperconvergence Software writes "Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VxRail, VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is most compared with .
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