We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It did not hurt that the price for the hardware and three years of support cost less than the disparate hardware the cluster used to run on."
"StarWind is very resilient and built off of quality vendor hardware."
"The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects."
"Their service is top-notch and if a node goes down they immediately are following up with us to make sure that everything is working smoothly."
"Repair efforts have been reduced to nearly nothing."
"The solution has provided our company with a fully redundant virtual environment at half the cost of a traditional SAN implementation."
"The presence of built-in storage saved the company from having to purchase a separate storage array and related network equipment."
"Having this all backed up by pro-active support gives us good peace of mind."
"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."
"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."
"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."
"It would be nice if the software told you a new version was available and prompted you to do the upgrade to keep everything up to date."
"The StarWind Command Center web portal could use some work."
"The only thing that can use improvement is the StarWind Management Console and Command Center."
"We have to pay for support, which is high-end support. That can be expensive, at least for us."
"The only issue we have had was the issue of performance, however, that is only due to the fact that we purchased a mix of SSD and regular spindle drives, and restoring databases was slow as it was trying to restore the database using the spindle drives."
"An emphasis on security can be improved."
"The only issues are when Hyper V itself has limitations and I'd love to see support or enhancement in the area of direct-attached GPU cards."
"We'd like an easier setup for Windows updates on the Hyper-V servers so you don't have to use a script to ensure auto-updating is done."
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IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 43 reviews. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.6, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "Enables us to build an infrastructure and replace storage with no disruption to our hosts whatsoever". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Flexible and easy to set up with excellent support". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, DataCore SANsymphony and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, NetApp HCI and StorMagic SvSAN. See our IBM Spectrum Virtualize vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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