We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and ScaleIO [EOL] 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 is a single pane of glass management interface, so once the storage is allocated to SVC, they only have one place to go to manage it for everything."
"The SVC gives excellent performance with tiered storage behind it."
"The ability to have a feature-rich software set which extends the capabilities of the back-end storage arrays."
"It's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."
"The scalability is very good. It can handle anywhere from very small to large enterprise class."
"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."
"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."
"Automatic rebalancing is the feature saving administration time."
"They know how to clearly present any important data, including data flow and each drive's IOPS/bandwidth; and allow the user to easily monitor bottlenecks and problems"
"Compared to other products in this category that are competing with Dell EMC, Dell seems to us to always come out on top."
"We are using it as the primary virtualization storage (both for internal corporate users and external customers) for VMware and Hyper-V virtualization platforms."
"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."
"The disk reliability is not that good."
"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."
"Tighter integration with cloud storage might be useful as a target for a variety of use cases."
"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites."
"They are actually working on one bug we found, which was with flash restore. This was the user interface design for virtual environments."
"The Storwize port is not so stable."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"It would be nice to set minimum IOPS per volume, besides just the maximum, to be able to satisfy this demand from customers out-of-the-box, not by calculating number of disks, etc."
"There is room for improvement in the area of horizontal scaling."
"If they could introduce a write cache feature, the product would be perfect overall."
"Ecosystem around the product: There is no built-in system for viewing history data, such as volume IOPS. We have to provide graphing by Prometheus and Grafana, which would be a good new feature in ScaleIO."
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IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews while ScaleIO [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while ScaleIO [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 ScaleIO [EOL] writes "Meets our customers' needs but they should move towards high-level scaling". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VxRail, VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas ScaleIO [EOL] is most compared with .
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