We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and Veritas Access Appliance 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)."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."
"We are happy with the support that IBM provides us."
"It's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."
"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."
"We can failover easily, because a lot of our data is replicated from family to the second replication."
"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."
"The ability to have a feature-rich software set which extends the capabilities of the back-end storage arrays."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity of use, the flexibility, and the options included. I mean, it's just a big time saver."
"It is a very stable program."
"Overall the solution works well."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"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."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
"Tighter integration with cloud storage might be useful as a target for a variety of use cases."
"The Storwize port is not so stable."
"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."
"They are actually working on one bug we found, which was with flash restore. This was the user interface design for virtual environments."
"I would like to see more platforms added."
"The Veritas support for Access Appliance could improve. They are a pioneer in the industry, and they provide an enterprise-level solution. However, when comparing the storage, they can't compete with the NetBackup solution."
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IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews while Veritas Access Appliance is ranked 23rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS). IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while Veritas Access Appliance 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 Veritas Access Appliance writes "Overall functions well, stable, but technical support could improve". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas Veritas Access Appliance is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Veritas Access, LINBIT SDS and Portworx Enterprise.
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