IBM Spectrum Accelerate vs. Longhorn Block Storage

I recommend this product in cases when we have to Deploy scale-out storage grids in automated environments; it can be done in minutes rather than days. Another exciting point is the quality of service that it allows for establishing different performance tiers without a need for physical tiering. A point against, from my point of view, is connectivity because it only provides a connection by iscsi.

Incentivized

Longhorn Block Storage is well suited for most Kubernetes workloads where data storage is required, but when very high storage speed is essential, Longhorn Block Storage might not be the best solution. For those rare situations, we use local storage mounts. Longhorn Block Storage's ability to easily create/restore volume snapshots is a very frequently used feature among our dev teams because they can easily play multiple scenarios with the same data - modify data, restore it and modify it again.

• IBM Spectrum Accelerate enables rapid deployment of high-performance and scalable blocks.
• Data storage infrastructure over commodity hardware, either on-premises or off-premises.
• The IBM Spectrum Accelerate solution that is described in this document provides a total of.
• 184 TB of usable capacity.
• This technical publication describes a Spectrum Accelerate implementation with Lenovo
• 3650M5 server hardware.

Incentivized

• Creates read-write many (RWX) volumes
• Longhorn Block Storage is an easy to deploy solution
• Scheduled and on-demand volume snapshots can be created using web GUI
• Volume backups can be stored offsite on any S3 compatible storage solution
• Backups and snapshots can be restored using web GUI

• not easy to manage
• interface is not user-friendly

Incentivized

• Version to version upgrades takes more expertise to do than initial deployment
• If something goes wrong, you will need a help from support
• Longhorn Block Storage speed is slightly slower than local disk storage speed

The most important feature is the robustness; it is always online, apart from allowing us to unify our file and database storage.

Incentivized

• According to conventional wisdom, an annual ROI of approximately 7% or greater is considered a good ROI for an investment in stocks.
• Return on Investment (ROI) is a popular profitability metric used to evaluate how well an investment has performed.

Incentivized

• It has provided a highly available storage solution for almost all our Kubernetes deployments
• We can deploy new app versions with peace in mind because we have working data backups
• Application development is faster because devs can play with data and easily restore it when needed