IBM Spectrum Virtualize Reviews

Not having to take any kind of outage to do a storage data migration.

It improves a lot of functions for our clients. The high availability is the best thing. I have been working with it for 15 years, and it's one of the most stable products that IBM has.

There are a few little GUI issues and stuff like that, but nothing major. I would like to see better layout of some stuff. They kept on moving things around from version 7.4 to through version 8. They've made it a little difficult for some customers to find things.

The stability is good.

The scalability is great too. It scales from a single I/O group to up to four.

Technical support has been great. I've been using it for 15 years.

Next to the DSA1000, it's the most enterprise thing that IBM has for storage.

Make sure that it really has all the things that Spectrum Virtualize has, where you can upgrade the hardware and the software and everything without taking any kind of outage. And that's for infinity, not just for the life cycle with that version of the product, but for each subsequent version. It's all done on the fly.

When choosing a vendor, I look for support.

The ability to virtualize multiple storage components is a valuable feature.

It gives flexibility to the customers to view the entire storage infrastructure, as a single entity.

Some of the benefits of this solution are that the customer need not go and manage multiple systems. They can only go and manage a single management view, for all these sorts of systems.

The product should have better management capabilities.

This product is very good in terms of the stability and scalability. The security features are also very good.

Basically, we evaluate the support looking into the performance. Technical support is good.

The setup was straightforward, not complex.

We looked at other solutions namely EMC and IBM.

When I am selecting a vendor I look at the support as well and not just the product. It's the complete ecosystem of the product and support that we evaluate, before selecting a vendor.

I shall definitely recommend it.

It is really a good product which can virtualize your whole data center. It is a road to a whole different software data center. It's a wonderful product for total cost of ownership, production, and providing ease of management.

It is all about the ease of management and better utilization of the storage capacity. It is about the dynamics of the storage. You can move one storage tier to another storage tier.

One very important feature is the analysis of the logs which should be there in the system. Other than that, I'm pretty satisfied with all the features in the system.

This product has been on the market for the last fifteen years. It's a wonderful product and the new releases from IBM are just great. New functionality is being added and it's a wonderful product.

It is immensely scalable. It allows me to start small. It can start at a very small footprint and then it can scale up.

We have used tech support and it is fine. Although it could have been better

The initial setup was very straightforward. It was a wizard driven, intuitive setup.

One other vendor we considered was EMC, but this particular product really has some cool features as compared to the competitor's products.

Close your eyes and go for it.

It is very good for compatibility and stability.

It helps us with the management of automation and migration between other vendors for storage.

I had some ideas for improvement, but I can't recall them at the moment.

For us, the stability is great. We don't have a problem with this solution. We have our own systems and we integrate with other systems. When we have stability problems because of compatibility between other vendors, the same vendor, and many solutions, we lose money because of longer implementation times.

Regarding scalability, it depends. We had some problems with performance on all-flash storage. We don't use Spectrum Virtualize to offer storage, because they are too intensive for this environment.

I have used technical support. It was hard work, but we had some colleagues in IBM and they helped us to move forward.

They should test the solution before starting the implementation. Sometimes IBM documents something, but in the real world, it doesn't work. It depends on the brand or the version of the software. So they should test it and then go to the client to make sure that it works there.