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IBM Spectrum Accelerate

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What is IBM Spectrum Accelerate?

IBM Spectrum Accelerate is an enterprise software defined block storage solution.

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IBM Spectrum Accelerate Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 31, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
In our organization we had separate storage for file and database, now with IBM Spectrum Accelerate we were able to unify them. Implementing a solution with IBM Spectrum Accel...
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Tatiana Lazo Sarmiento
Engineer - Information Technology
IT Specialist
INDUGLOB S.A
IBM Spectrum Accelerate10 years of experience

IBM Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 30, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It is a highly flexible storage solution that enables rapid deployment of block storage services for new and traditional workloads. Spectrum Accelerate is provided as a softwa...
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Utkarsh Khandelwal
Administrator - Information Technology
System Administrator
Jaquar & Company Pvt Ltd
IBM Spectrum Accelerate10 years of experience

IBM products always work as you expect.

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 28, 2023
IncentivizedVetted Review
It is a very good product based on IBM XIV storage technology that enables rapid deployment of block storage services for new and traditional workloads, on-premises, off-premi...
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Diego Xavier Rojas
Engineer - Engineering
IT Specialist
Coresolutions S.A.
IBM Spectrum Accelerate5 years of experience
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IBM Spectrum Accelerate Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 31, 2023
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In our organization we had separate storage for file and database, now with IBM Spectrum Accelerate we were able to unify them. Implementing a solution with IBM Spectrum Accelerate product was one of the best decisions made for managing our in-house data center, It helps us organize ourselves with all the information from our backups at the SAN and NAS level.
Pros and Cons
  • data mirroring
  • data virtualization
  • point-in-time copying
  • self-healing mechanisms
Likelihood to Recommend
our scenario, for example, is very suitable to take advantage of all the capabilities that IBM Spectrum Accelerate has, because we manage all our infrastructure in a virtualized environment with Vmware
Most Important Features
  • Reliability
  • Agility
  • Performance
  • Hyper-Scale Manager
Return on Investment
  • Positive: Unify file and database Storage
  • Positive: agility
  • Negative: the implementation was not easy
  • Negative: doesn't integrate as well with Veeam
Alternatives Considered
IBM Spectrum Accelerate is a product that was very effective for us once it was implemented (it was not easy), because it is a very robust and very stable product, IBM support is very good in case of any setbacks, based on my experience recommend this product
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IBM Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
January 30, 2023
UK
Utkarsh Khandelwal
System Administrator
Jaquar & Company Pvt Ltd (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is a highly flexible storage solution that enables rapid deployment of block storage services for new and traditional workloads. Spectrum Accelerate is provided as a software-defined storage product for VMware ESXi hypervisors and can be installed on 3–15.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
An IBM Spectrum Accelerate system requires sufficient physical connectivity with 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) connections. Virtual networking switches must be associated with the physical network and the virtual network ports. In addition, it is highly recommended to provide multiple physical network device connections to each IBM Spectrum Accelerate module for network redundancy in case of network device failure.1. Distributed RAID2. Easy Tier3. Comrpession4. Storage Pool Balancing.
Most Important Features
  • Spectrum Virtualize.
  • Spectrum Control.
  • Spectrum Protect.
  • Spectrum Scale.
Return on Investment
  • 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.
Alternatives Considered
Add IBM Spectrum Accelerate storage systems to get performance and asset, capacity, and configuration metadata analyzed so that you can detect performance issues and changes in storage usage and plan for future storage needs.IBM Spectrum Accelerate, a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage™ family, is a software-defined storage solution that is based on the XIV® storage system. Use the following information to add storage systems so that they can be monitored and that metadata can be collected, analyzed, and presented in the GUI.
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IBM products always work as you expect.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 28, 2023
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is a very good product based on IBM XIV storage technology that enables rapid deployment of block storage services for new and traditional workloads, on-premises, off-premises, and in a combination of both.
Pros and Cons
  • Performance
  • Agility
  • Reliability
  • Multi-tenancy
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Most Important Features
  • Reliability.
  • Multi-tenancy.
  • Ease of management.
  • Performance.
  • Agility
Return on Investment
  • Positive: Reliability
  • Positive: Performance
  • Negative: Connectivity
Alternatives Considered
The most important feature is the robustness; it is always online, apart from allowing us to unify our file and database storage.
Other Software Used
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