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Overall Satisfaction with IBM Spectrum Accelerate
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
- 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.
Cons
- Once it is successfully deployed, the XIV technology software-defined storage solution – namely IBM Spectrum Accelerate – is reasonably easy to operate, manage, monitor, and maintain.
- As a virtual appliance application, IBM Spectrum Accelerate must run on a VMware ESXi hypervisor. Consequently, the planning must necessarily encompass different ESXi environment aspects, including network, storage, virtual machine resources, and general cluster configuration.
- Spectrum Virtualize.
- Spectrum Control.
- Spectrum Protect.
- Spectrum Scale.
- 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.
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.
Do you think IBM Spectrum Accelerate delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with IBM Spectrum Accelerate's feature set?
Yes
Did IBM Spectrum Accelerate live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of IBM Spectrum Accelerate go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IBM Spectrum Accelerate again?
Yes
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