We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and Scality RING based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Using SBC, a valuable feature is the mirroring, which is the virtualization of the disk between disparate places."
"It provides transparency, because of its advanced copy features."
"The ability to add the virtual machine on the Spectrum environment to sort out the data movers(DMs) and their schedules is a valuable feature. You are able to have, for example, four data movers to balance them so you do not have too much work on one data mover."
"It's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."
"The most valuable feature is its reliability."
"Compared to other storage vendors, the solution is quite convenient to use."
"The SVC gives excellent performance with tiered storage behind it."
"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."
"Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency."
"I think it's the economic factor. This solution has the lowest cost for storage systems."
"The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface."
"I already discussed possible improvements with some of the guys from Hearnsley. One of our frustrations is when you go to expand volumes in a global mirror environment, you have to stop everything in order to expand. So that's one of the things."
"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."
"Anything which improves performance and the ability of our systems would be a nice."
"The disk reliability is not that good."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"I hate I/O groups. If you start swapping I/O groups, they can be potentially risky. If they could get rid of the whole I/O group principle, the risk is not there anymore. I understand the fundamental thing about I/O groups, but they are risky."
"The solution could have a better built-in performance monitor."
"The integration would be an option that we would like, but I understand that's not how it's going to be implemented."
"Scality RING8 could improve by having more features. We have to use two automation tools to meet our needs. We would prefer to use only one."
"When we used this solution in 2015, it was not scalable at all. I don't know if they have improved on that, but at the time, scalability was just horrible."
"Scality RING is not easy to learn for someone new. It is a little bit difficult. There are a lot of components to it, and you also need to understand them to work with it effectively."
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews while Scality RING is ranked 16th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while Scality RING is rated 7.8. 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 Scality RING writes "Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing ". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas Scality RING is most compared with MinIO, Dell ECS, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Qumulo and Cloudian HyperStore. See our IBM Spectrum Virtualize vs. Scality RING report.
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