We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and StorMagic SvSAN 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."We can failover easily, because a lot of our data is replicated from family to the second replication."
"We are happy with the support that IBM provides us."
"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."
"I like that it can virtualize more than three hundred storage providers."
"It's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."
"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."
"It provides transparency, because of its advanced copy features."
"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."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"Anything which improves performance and the ability of our systems would be a nice."
"In general, the migration is complicated. Though, it is case-by-case."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"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."
"The solution could have a better built-in performance monitor."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"The integration would be an option that we would like, but I understand that's not how it's going to be implemented."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 9 reviews. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. 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 StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our IBM Spectrum Virtualize vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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