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.
Daniel Morris
April 1, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Great stuff…do you plan on updating to include VNX???
storagesavvy
April 1, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Thanks for the reminder.. I’ll work on an updated version.
storagesavvy
April 1, 2011 at 8:46 pm
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.
Rob Peglar
May 22, 2011 at 6:50 am
You should include EMC Isilon kit in your matrix…let me know if/when you need help. Best regards
storagesavvy
May 24, 2011 at 3:03 pm
I had plans to create something similar to focus on NAS products specifically. I should probably get cracking on that.
Gunner
May 24, 2011 at 1:40 pm
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?
storagesavvy
May 24, 2011 at 3:02 pm
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.
storagesavvy
May 24, 2011 at 3:04 pm
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.
textral
March 1, 2012 at 12:49 pm
would love to see that feature/functionality comparison doc, if you ever made it.
guest
June 20, 2011 at 5:33 am
great stuff for sharing. thanks. it’s great. hope you could add in HP left to compare also against EqualLogic.
Steve Kimber
January 5, 2012 at 1:30 am
Hello!! Great post – very useful, thank you!
We are evaluating some of HuaweiSymantec’s stuff. Any chance of including their data in this?
storagesavvy
January 5, 2012 at 3:28 pm
I don’t know much about HuaweiSymantec as of yet, but I’ll see if I can research and add it in.
Costorage
June 20, 2012 at 8:23 am
Hello,
can you realize feature/functionality comparison doc, now ? im very interested.
Thank a lot
storagesavvy
September 14, 2012 at 3:42 pm
I’ve updated this and added HuaweiSymantec.
Mahaveer
May 3, 2012 at 11:09 pm
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.
Jim
January 11, 2012 at 10:32 am
Great information. What are your thoughts on the IBM XIV? Would like to see how that matches up with the rest.
JW
September 14, 2012 at 12:44 pm
This is a great chart. What are you thoughts on Nimble Strorage arrays?
storagesavvy
September 14, 2012 at 3:41 pm
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
Ed Grigson
December 14, 2012 at 5:53 am
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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Tejinder Singh
February 2, 2014 at 9:47 pm
This is a good details you have put in ….good efforts…
Can you pls. add Oracle ZFS also…..segregation in entry level and enterprise storage systems along with critical , good to have KPI