HPE StoreVirtual vs IBM Spectrum Scale comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM are both solutions in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #17, while IBM is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.5. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 1.3% mindshare in SDS, compared to IBM’s 5.0% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

HPE StoreVirtual

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94% willing to recommend

IBM Spectrum Scale

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and IBM Spectrum Scale 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.

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HPE StoreVirtual vs. IBM Spectrum Scale

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Categories and Ranking

HPE StoreVirtual

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

17th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Spectrum Scale

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of HPE StoreVirtual is 1.3%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Spectrum Scale is 5.0%, down from 8.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Vebjorn Nergaard

Senior IT Engineer at Guard Automation AS

Stable, scalable, and easy to manage

The challenge we have right now is that the product reaches its end of life in October of 2022. They should continue producing this solution. The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users. The solution should offer a simpler network setup. The product's interface is a bit dated. They should refresh its design.

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Janith Ranasinghe

Senior Manager - IT at LankaClear

A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features

The profile share is a valuable feature. We only use the parallel file system at my company I rate this solution a nine out of ten. I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it. We have been using this solution since 2014, and it is deployed on-premises. It is stable…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."

"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."

"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."

"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."

"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."

"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."

"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."

"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."

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"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."

"It makes our file system sharing a lot easier, even across different continents. We have had file systems shared across different continents with no performance degradation."

"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."

"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."

"We can have multiple systems within the same file system."

"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."

"It is a scalable solution."

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Cons

"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."

"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."

"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."

"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."

"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."

"User interface could be improved."

"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."

"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."

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"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."

"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."

"The main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well."

"We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization."

"Integration with other vendors is not available."

"The solution's pricing could be better."

"The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."

"Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you buy a five-year license, not only does the technical support expire after five years, but you also lose the ability to change and expand the VSA, and the systems won't go down."

"One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included."

"It costs less than $10,000 for one machine. If it costs more than 15% higher than this, then the customer may change to another solution."

"The prices are OK, so we don't have much difficulty selling HPE in Brazil."

"For our organization, I believe the cost is 16,000 Euros for a three-year license. It costs a bit more to do the maintenance on our servers as well. It's also on an HP ProLiant server and an organization will need to do the maintenance there also. I believe the price for that is around 2000 Euros a year."

"Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen."

"The solution is costly but reliable."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

23%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Government

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Small Business

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What do you like most about IBM Spectrum Scale?

It is a scalable solution.

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The solution is costly but reliable.

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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Scale?

The solution's pricing could be better.

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Compared 9% of the time

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Overview

HPE StoreVirtual storage ensures that organisations can optimise the benefits of server virtualisation with cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery. The iSCSI-based, scale-out storage platform is easy to manage and change – meeting ongoing business demands without creating IT bottlenecks or application downtime. Overcoming the cost and management limitations of traditional storage area networks (SANs), HPE StoreVirtual nodes use storage clustering to form a single pool of resources that enable organisations to buy only what they need today, scaling non-disruptively to meet requirements in the future.

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 replication, policy based storage management, and multi-site operations. You can create a cluster of AIX nodes, Linux nodes, Windows server nodes, or a mix of all three. IBM Spectrum Scale can run on virtualized instances providing common data access in environments, leverage logical partitioning, or other hypervisors. Multiple IBM Spectrum Scale clusters can share data within a location or across wide area network (WAN) connections.

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NBrIX, WIND Telecom, Netrics

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