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IBM XIV pros and cons

Vendor: IBM
3.8 out of 5
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IBM XIV Pros review quotes

it_user735234 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2017
Hands down, this is the easiest storage platform on the market to manage.
it_user649086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 10, 2017
Very easy to produce reporting data (Snaps). Very easy and fast for provisioning devices and Remote mirroring.
it_user736191 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 13, 2017
The performance and robustness of the systems are very good.
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SystemsE659e - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 25, 2017
As it spreads, a chuck of 1MB across the board means using all available spindles on the backend.
Ajith Kandaramage - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 11, 2022
IBM XIV's most valuable features are NVME, especially when it comes to de-duplication, compression, and responsiveness.
 

IBM XIV Cons review quotes

it_user735234 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2017
I would rather have a web GUI served directly from the unit, and a CLI accessible directly through SSH.
it_user649086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 10, 2017
The change form synchronous mirroring to asynchronous (and vice versa) without reconfiguration from scratch would be helpful.
it_user736191 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 13, 2017
Until the drive is replaced, the pool_resizing is locked.
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SystemsE659e - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 25, 2017
This product was not a good fit for our organization as we have a ton of latency sensitive applications and XIV was not able to keep up with IO + latency demand.
Ajith Kandaramage - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 11, 2022
IBM XIV's scalability is adequate for our requirements, but because it's modular, you can't scale to larger requirements.

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