We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Accelerate and IBM Spectrum Virtualize 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."The most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works."
"The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."
"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's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."
"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."
"We can failover easily, because a lot of our data is replicated from family to the second replication."
"The scalability is very good. It can handle anywhere from very small to large enterprise class."
"It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity of use, the flexibility, and the options included. I mean, it's just a big time saver."
"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."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"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."
"The disk reliability is not that good."
"Tighter integration with cloud storage might be useful as a target for a variety of use cases."
"The Storwize port is not so stable."
"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites."
"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"In general, the migration is complicated. Though, it is case-by-case."
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IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 22nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 35 reviews. IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "Robust, stable, with good performance, and easy to implement". IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony. See our IBM Spectrum Accelerate vs. IBM Spectrum Virtualize report.
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