The best option for storage is IBM Spectrum Virtualize
February 06, 2025

The best option for storage is IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Jesus Mora Luna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IBM Spectrum Virtualize

In our case we use it in two ways, the first in our internal laboratory where it is connected to the development and testing servers for the applications that are supported by our clients with whom we manage their services and the other way we use IBM Spectrum Virtualize is with the clients where we manage the storage service.

Pros

  • Provision drives over fiber and/or iSCSI connections
  • Perform volume replications between 2 storages efficiently
  • The ability to virtualize other storage and make it easy to provision

Cons

  • I would like the management of connections through the network to be easy to see
  • The new GUI is easy to use but has less viewing area in the sections than the previous one
  • The configuration in the new GUI on remote copies is more complicated than the previous one that showed everything in 2 tabs
  • Positively, it has generated good initial sales for us and with proper management, the growth of application operations generates more services to manage.
  • Positively, the growth of the operation has also helped the team to update its capabilities in order to grow.
  • The only possible disadvantage is that since the equipment is very reliable and durable, technological change is not easy to make. Clients prefer to grow the equipment while they can rather than make a complete change, but even so, the time comes when all this produces more services.
The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, it does not require investing a lot of time to manage them since they are very reliable and secure.The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, and does not require a lot of time to manage it as it is very reliable and secure.Its components are not easily damaged and any alert that occurs can be quickly corrected without interrupting services.
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is better in my opinion because of its ease of installation, implementation and above all its administration of the services and resources it has to provision storage, the connection of the hosts is simpler and the allocation of resources is also simpler, as well as the generation of remote copies to other storage.

Do you think IBM Spectrum Virtualize delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Spectrum Virtualize's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Spectrum Virtualize live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Spectrum Virtualize go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Spectrum Virtualize again?

Yes

IBM Spectrum Virtualize is very suitable for the virtualization part since it is easy to connect the hypervisors with the storage, also for the video surveillance part since it connects with the recording applications easily, it is also easy to create groups of volumes or hosts for the management of many units at the same time.

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