IBM SAN Volume Control Reviews

Vendor: IBM

4.6 out of 5

5 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is IBM SAN Volume Control?

Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software—part of the IBM Spectrum Storage family—IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is an enterprise-class storage system that helps organizations achieve better data economics by supporting the new large scale workloads that are critical to success. SVC systems can handle the massive volumes of data from mobile and social applications and enable flexible hybrid multicloud deployments and deliver the performance and scalability needed to gain insights from the latest analytics technologies.

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IBM SAN Volume Control is the #4 ranked solution in top Storage Management solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM SAN Volume Control an average rating of 9.2 out of 10. IBM SAN Volume Control is most commonly compared to Dell VPLEX: IBM SAN Volume Control vs Dell VPLEX. IBM SAN Volume Control is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 16% of all views.

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December 2024

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Slav Trifonov

Head of Database Administration, SAN and Storage Infrastructure at United Bulgarian Bank AD

Currently, we are trying to improve our SAN infrastructure to go from SAN-based directors. We are trying to upgrade and go on generation seven, which supports the VME protocol for some communication. Currently, we are on generation five, and we want to go to the next generation. Generation seven is a great benefit with monitoring and following workflows easily to resolve problems on our fibre channel. I would like to see the usage of virtualized storage boxes improved. I'd like to see this feature fixed, especially for SVC controller, and to be able to hold more storage.

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Nagendra Nekkala.

Senior Manager ICT & at Bangalore International Airport Limited

Initially, we had some challenges with massive amounts of customer data. We have an airport segment where the passenger data are required, and it’s huge data. We needed a system that could store bulk data with low latency and provide a good customer experience. The solution is very famous. Ultra latency provides miraculous performance and productivity. It also enables advanced virtualization for good scalability. Anyone can opt to use the product. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

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reviewer1275084

Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

If IBM wants want to put SAN Volume Control ahead of their competitors, like NetApp, they just need to put in the snap volume because now they use what is called a flash copy. This means that you have to take all the volume instead of NetApp which uses their snapshot. They will have to improve that. Today, it is not so difficult to snap a volume when you have an SSD or NVMe disk, it just takes a few seconds to do it. They should improve the snapshot in the IBM SAN Volume Control.

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IBM SAN Volume Control mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of IBM SAN Volume Control in the Storage Management category stands at 6.8%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The product has an ultra-low latency."
"The most valuable features of IBM SAN Volume Control are the copy services, performance metrics, and analysis. Additionally, they have upgraded and introduced visual volumes."
"The solution is easy to use, easily configurable, and easy to upgrade, manipulate, and add new storage."

Room for Improvement

"Patch management and upgrades must be made easier."
"IBM SAN Volume Control could improve by better integrations with other vendor systems. IBM SAN Volume Control can store the environment and are able to integrate with Veeam, but I don't know if they can integrate as well with SVC or other vendors' systems."
"I would like to see the usage of virtualized storage boxes improved. I'd like to see this feature fixed, especially for SVC controller, and to be able to hold more storage."