IBM Spectrum Scale functions as software-based storage, allowing users to utilize any hardware supported or defined by IBM without depending on physical hardware provided by IBM. If you have existing infrastructure at your site but want to avoid reinvesting in hardware, you can purchase IBM Spectrum Scale software and deploy it as software-defined storage, making it a cost-effective solution.
IBM Spectrum Scale is very expensive with complex pricing models usually based on the amount of storage used or the number of servers. Using Excelero for mirroring storage helped reduce Spectrum Scale licensing costs by about half during the Leading German Bank project.
We are using the standard license. In addition to this standard license we purchased separately, we have IBM DB2 pureScale. I believe we got a bundled size because we purchased all the hardware.
Senior Expert Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Dec 23, 2019
The licensing is based on the number of terabytes. We have an enterprise license agreement with IBM and it doesn't reflect the moment price list. I think that it's a good price but it is quite expensive.
IBM Spectrum Scale is a cluster file system that provides concurrent access to a single file system or set of file systems from multiple nodes. The nodes can be SAN attached, network attached, a mixture of SAN attached and network attached, or in a shared nothing cluster configuration. This enables access to this common set of data to support a scale-out solution or to provide a high availability platform. IBM Spectrum Scale has many features beyond common data access including data...
IBM Spectrum Scale functions as software-based storage, allowing users to utilize any hardware supported or defined by IBM without depending on physical hardware provided by IBM. If you have existing infrastructure at your site but want to avoid reinvesting in hardware, you can purchase IBM Spectrum Scale software and deploy it as software-defined storage, making it a cost-effective solution.
IBM Spectrum Scale is very expensive with complex pricing models usually based on the amount of storage used or the number of servers. Using Excelero for mirroring storage helped reduce Spectrum Scale licensing costs by about half during the Leading German Bank project.
I don't think it's a high price compared to alternatives.
The solution is costly but reliable.
We are using the standard license. In addition to this standard license we purchased separately, we have IBM DB2 pureScale. I believe we got a bundled size because we purchased all the hardware.
The pricing isn't too expensive. It's reasonable.
The licensing model is complex and depends on factors such as the number of processing cores and the amount of storage.
The licensing is based on the number of terabytes. We have an enterprise license agreement with IBM and it doesn't reflect the moment price list. I think that it's a good price but it is quite expensive.