I’m putting together comparison charts for various storage systems so that users, customers, etc can quickly cross reference architecture and feature differences… (Last Updated 9/14/2012)
Architecture Comparison
*Note: If you are a vendor (or anyone else for that matter) who believes I’ve made a mistake anywhere here. Please let me know, and forward a document that describes the feature, product, etc so I can understand why I was mistaken.
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April 1, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Daniel Morris
Great stuff…do you plan on updating to include VNX???
April 1, 2011 at 7:53 pm
storagesavvy
Thanks for the reminder.. I’ll work on an updated version.
April 1, 2011 at 8:46 pm
storagesavvy
I’ve updated it with VNX and the newer NetApp and Compellent hardware and checked the other systems for changes but didn’t find any.
May 22, 2011 at 6:50 am
Rob Peglar
You should include EMC Isilon kit in your matrix…let me know if/when you need help. Best regards
May 24, 2011 at 3:03 pm
storagesavvy
I had plans to create something similar to focus on NAS products specifically. I should probably get cracking on that.
May 24, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Gunner
What you’re attempting to do here is progressive, I couldn’t find anything else like it on the web. What about the IBM DS8800 with and without SVC front ending it? And this is a great chart for the hardware and architecture but what about a similiar chart for the features and capabilities like: virtualization, tiering, thin provisioning, pooling, etc?
May 24, 2011 at 3:02 pm
storagesavvy
Thanks.. I’ll work on adding DS8800, I don’t know much about IBM storage so it will take me a little time to get through the details.
May 24, 2011 at 3:04 pm
storagesavvy
Oh, and I do have a work-in-progress chart for software feature/functionality comparisons which I think the real interesting data lies. I’ll start working on that again and see if I can’t get that posted soon.
March 1, 2012 at 12:49 pm
textral
would love to see that feature/functionality comparison doc, if you ever made it.
June 20, 2011 at 5:33 am
guest
great stuff for sharing. thanks. it’s great. hope you could add in HP left to compare also against EqualLogic.
January 5, 2012 at 1:30 am
Steve Kimber
Hello!! Great post – very useful, thank you!
We are evaluating some of HuaweiSymantec’s stuff. Any chance of including their data in this?
January 5, 2012 at 3:28 pm
storagesavvy
I don’t know much about HuaweiSymantec as of yet, but I’ll see if I can research and add it in.
June 20, 2012 at 8:23 am
Costorage
Hello,
can you realize feature/functionality comparison doc, now ? im very interested.
Thank a lot
September 14, 2012 at 3:42 pm
storagesavvy
I’ve updated this and added HuaweiSymantec.
May 3, 2012 at 11:09 pm
Mahaveer
I assume sonomee in IBM has already built an x86 AS/400 style application server , if only as a proof of concept, but I think the time isn’t right for this kind of fixed block concept.But I find the idea of a storage platform spread across 100s of servers, each one running a virtual storage appliance with a scale-out filesystem, alongside local computing power running the application workloads to be compelling, and is probably a lot closer to a modern cloud design than the V-MAX concept.
January 11, 2012 at 10:32 am
Jim
Great information. What are your thoughts on the IBM XIV? Would like to see how that matches up with the rest.
September 14, 2012 at 12:44 pm
JW
This is a great chart. What are you thoughts on Nimble Strorage arrays?
September 14, 2012 at 3:41 pm
storagesavvy
I finally updated this one…
Added IBM DS8800, XIV, V7000, HauweiSymantec, Hitachi HUS
Deprecated EMC CLARiiON, Hitachi AMS
Updated the other systems to latest available information
December 14, 2012 at 5:53 am
Ed Grigson
Good post, here’s another vote for the software/feature comparison. I’d also add Netapp. Having been looking at the various startups (Nimble, Nimbus, PureStorage etc) a comparison chart would be just the thing. Happy to help if you’re pushed for time?
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