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"The most valuable features are the simplicity of use, the flexibility, and the options included. I mean, it's just a big time saver.""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.""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.""One of the main features of Spectrum Virtualize is it virtualizes the servers from the storage. We have a very large infrastructure. A major advantage is when you get the aged storage arrays and you have to replace all of those.""The most valuable feature is its reliability.""It's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly.""We are happy with the support that IBM provides us.""It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."

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"This is an easy-to-use product for adding flexibility to your storage solution.""The best part of the solution is that you can actually scale up to a large number of operating systems without additional hardware.""VMware Software Defined Storage gives higher availability against data corruption.""The single management panel is the main feature that is wonderful for the customer."

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"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites.""The integration would be an option that we would like, but I understand that's not how it's going to be implemented.""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.""t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups.""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.""The disk reliability is not that good.""They are actually working on one bug we found, which was with flash restore. This was the user interface design for virtual environments.""Level 1 technical support needs improvement."

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"The performance is not as good as some competing products and reporting can be improved.""It doesn't have the ability to be deployed on any kind of hardware and network connectors.""VMware Software Defined Storage should include a shared database on a standard version.""I'd like to see improved hardware compatibility"

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Generally the bundled licensing is more cost effective and gives flexibility to the solution. Linking into the Spectrum Suite can also be advantageous, but depends on the scale of the enterprise."
  • "We have struggled with Pure Storage, but people are understanding that much of Pure has been consumer grade SSDs. Therefore, when the customer is really understands what they are getting, they realize that IBM presents the same sort of value as existing vendors."
  • "We would like the CPU cycle to save more on the licensing costs for us."
  • "Do a proof of concept, if you are not comfortable jumping in, but do it."
  • "It has a lot of advanced functions for a reasonable price."
  • "I am very happy with the pricing. There is no comparison when it comes to pricing. I have looked at all solutions from EMC, Veritas, Hitachi, Dell, etc. None of them compares to IBM when it comes to pricing. I get great pricing from them."
  • "The entry point of pricing for this product is the most amazing price ever in the industry."
  • "This solution came as an additional cost for the TSM package we chose."
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  • "The product is quite expensive and is among the most expensive for this type of solution."
  • "A single socket costs you around US $6,000 for three years. At a minimum, you have a three load cluster for a medium or enterprise-scale company. It can get quite expensive because you're likely to need four to six sockets on the other side. It comes to around $30,000."
  • "I believe there is a yearly licensing fee of around $2000 - $5000. I don't think there are additional costs above that but it depends on the type of infrastructure you're booting."
  • "VMware Software Defined Storage is a slightly expensive solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Compared to other storage vendors, the solution is quite convenient to use.
    Top Answer:The pricing is pretty good. I rate the solution’s pricing a five out of ten. We have to pay for additional licenses.
    Top Answer:The solution could have a better built-in performance monitor. I use a different product for performance monitoring.
    Top Answer:VMware Software Defined Storage gives higher availability against data corruption.
    Top Answer:VMware Software Defined Storage is a slightly expensive solution. We do a three-year license for the solution, then renew it after every three years. I rate VMware Software Defined Storage a seven out… more »
    Top Answer:VMware Software Defined Storage should include a shared database on a standard version. Right now, it's included in the enterprise version.
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    Overview

    IBM Spectrum Virtualize is a dependable solution that improves data value, security, and simplicity for new and existing storage infrastructure. Proven over 12 years in thousands of deployments, its innovative virtualization capabilities help organizations achieve better data economics by supporting new workloads that are critical to their success. IBM Spectrum Virtualize software helps make new and existing storage more effective and standardizes functions traditionally deployed separately in disk systems for greater flexibility and potentially lower costs.

    VMware software-defined storage is a simple, yet intelligent, storage data center architecture that aligns with business and application demands—eliminating static, purpose-built and inefficient hardware with dynamic, agile and automated solutions.

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    Retailer10%
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    Financial Services Firm12%
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    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Software Defined Storage (SDS)
    March 2024
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    IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews while VMware Software Defined Storage is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while VMware Software Defined Storage 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 VMware Software Defined Storage writes "A stable solution that can be used for database applications and virtualization for multiple locations". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas VMware Software Defined Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Lightbits.

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