We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and Red Hat Gluster Storage 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)."Compared to other storage vendors, the solution is quite convenient to use."
"It lowers cost. It does so by getting more efficient use out of the technology behind it."
"Using SBC, a valuable feature is the mirroring, which is the virtualization of the disk between disparate places."
"We acquire companies (and things), so we end up with odd hardware. We bring it behind the SVC and it allows us to migrate stuff off of it seamlessly. SVC can also cover up a host of defects of the underlying storage."
"I like all the features, but the most impressive recently has been the introduction of IBM's Flash Core Modules. They are a form of a flash drive, but they have many more features."
"The most valuable feature is its reliability."
"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 abstraction flair and the abstraction layer. We had a mixture of different storage arrays, and the wonderful thing about SVC is is that it normalizes all it into a single driver. A single view that all hosts see simultaneously."
"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."
"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."
"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."
"The solution could have a better built-in performance monitor."
"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"The disk reliability is not that good."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"They are actually working on one bug we found, which was with flash restore. This was the user interface design for virtual environments."
"The user interface could be simplified."
"The performance of the solution must be improved."
"The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage."
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews while Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "A highly scalable product that is relatively easy to use and set up". 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 Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VxRail, VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, Red Hat Ceph Storage, LizardFS and LINBIT SDS.
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