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Systems Engineer II at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 25, 2017

As it spreads, a chuck of 1MB across the board means using all available spindles on the backend.

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Ajith Kandaramage

IT Operation Engineer at HNB

Jul 11, 2022

IBM XIV's most valuable features are NVME, especially when it comes to de-duplication, compression, and responsiveness.

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IBM XIV Cons review quotes

it_user735234

Systems Engineer V, Enterprise Storage Systems at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Sep 12, 2017

I would rather have a web GUI served directly from the unit, and a CLI accessible directly through SSH.

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it_user649086

Sr. System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Dec 10, 2017

The change form synchronous mirroring to asynchronous (and vice versa) without reconfiguration from scratch would be helpful.

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it_user736191

Senior Storage Engineer at BT

Sep 13, 2017

Until the drive is replaced, the pool_resizing is locked.

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Systems Engineer II at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Ajith Kandaramage

IT Operation Engineer at HNB

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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