Examine the key differences between Portworx products. Most users start by testing PX-Developer, and then adopting PX-Enterprise VM Basic, PX-Enterprise VM+, and PX-Enterprise Metal when they move into production.
| PX-Developer | PX-Enterprise VM Basic |
PX-Enterprise VM+ |
PX-Enterprise Metal |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cluster management CLI | check | check | check | check |
| Intuitive Management GUI | check | check | check | |
| Maximum nodes per cluster | 3 | 20 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Host type supported | VM or bare metal | VM | VM | Bare metal |
| Max volume capacity | 1TB | No limit | No limit | No limit |
| Max containers supported per host | 40 | 40 | No limit | No limit |
| Host capacity storage charge | Only after 20 TB | |||
| Support | Docs | Business day support | Business day support; 24×7 available | Business day support; 24×7 available |
| Pricing | Free forever | Contact us | Contact us | Contact us |
Don’t lose data when your container fails.
| PX-Developer | PX-Enterprise VM Basic |
PX-Enterprise VM+ |
PX-Enterprise Metal |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create container-granular volumes | check | check | check | check |
| Snapshot volumes | check | check | check | check |
| Delete volumes | check | check | check | check |
| Mount volume into container or pod | check | check | check | check |
| Share a single read/write volumes across multiple containers (aka shared volumes) | check | check | check | check |
| Automatic sorting of storage resources into class-of-service | check | check | check | |
| Aggregate cluster capacity within and across nodes | check | check | check | |
| Optional backup add-on: automatically back up to AWS S3, Azure, and Google with Portworx Cloud Snap™ | check | check | ||
| Scanning drives for media errors, alerting and repairing | check |
Smart provisioning, replication, and failover keep your apps up.
| PX-Developer | PX-Enterprise VM Basic |
PX-Enterprise VM+ |
PX-Enterprise Metal |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Synchronous Replication | check | check | check | check |
| Resize volumes on-demand | check | check | check | |
| Cross-AZ / cross-rack failover | check | check | ||
| Support for AWS auto-scaling groups | check | check | ||
| Optional disaster recovery add-on: cluster asynchronously backed-up to offsite cluster | check | check |
Deep integration with most popular container schedulers and automated deployment of Portworx itself.
| PX-Developer | PX-Enterprise VM Basic |
PX-Enterprise VM+ |
PX-Enterprise Metal |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes native integration | check | check | check | check |
| Mesos native integration | check | check | check | check |
| Docker Swarm native integration | check | check | check | check |
| PX deployable as a container | check | check | check | check |
| Monitoring for device and hardware failure | check | check | check | check |
Consistently manage any database on any infrastructure.
| PX-Developer | PX-Enterprise VM Basic |
PX-Enterprise VM+ |
PX-Enterprise Metal |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported environments | AWS, Google, Azure, on-prem data centers and all others | |||
| Supported operating systems | Any Linux distro | |||
| Supported stateful services | MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Couchbase, and any other database that runs on Linux | |||
| Supported stateful services | Jenkins, WordPress, Jira, and any other application that writes state to disk | |||
Move fast, move securely.
| PX-Developer | PX-Enterprise VM Basic |
PX-Enterprise VM+ |
PX-Enterprise Metal |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Container-granular access-control lists | check | check | check | check |
| Audit logs of data access | check | check | check | |
| Optional encryption add-on: encrypt volumes with BYOK integrated with Hashicorp Vault and AWS KMS | check | check |