We performed a comparison between Portworx Enterprise and Rancher Labs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Storage for Kubernetes solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is user-friendly."
"A custom IBM script is designed to tackle the storage management challenges within containerized environments, providing crucial data services and features required for enterprise applications."
"The best thing about Portworx is the Stork, they have called the VPS (Volume Replacement Strategy) and they also have topology awareness, and these are the three features I like."
"Portworx virtualizes the aspects of the underlying block storage. That is good because they can also use block storage for their future deployment instead of just NFS."
"Portworx is a simple solution. It's similar to Pure Storage products. They're all easy to use and install. You need to have a little expertise with containers to use Portworx, but it will be no problem for you if you understand containers."
"I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"The solution is stable."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"A great UI with very good integrations."
"The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access."
"This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"The documentation could be better."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"I think the vendor could provide more training for new users who may not be familiar with containers."
"It would be highly advantageous to include an integrated backup solution within the same license, rather than purchasing backup separately."
"They have not integrated Portworx with Ondat since they are too focused now on Pure Storage APIs and not on users like us."
"I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
Portworx Enterprise is ranked 1st in Data Storage for Kubernetes with 6 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 3rd in Data Storage for Kubernetes with 13 reviews. Portworx Enterprise is rated 9.2, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Portworx Enterprise writes "A solution backed by strong customer support, that is stable and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Portworx Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Spectrum Scale and Diamanti, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS, Docker and Kubernetes. See our Portworx Enterprise vs. Rancher Labs report.
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