Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2022-01-20T10:37:13Z
Jan 20, 2022
With IBM, we can separate the license from storage. That means that you are, for example, with an SSD drive, and you buy an SKU. SSD is one SKU. But if you want another path driver with more capacity, your SKU is 1.4 SKU. You have to compare. With the IBM service you do what you want. Meaning that if you want to make a red six or a red five, you do what you want. You have more tools with the license, you have all the tools to be able to manage your solution. Now, they changed their pricing for redemption tools for compression. They changed it directly in the hardware compression on the drive. This is why I can say that we have all the things to manage and to use the solution with the storage license.
Storage and Backups Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
2021-06-16T09:26:17Z
Jun 16, 2021
I think the licensing could be improved. With other solutions, you don't need a separate license for storage. With SAN Volume Controller, we need to license by terabyte. With our other products, we license by the box.
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The initial price of IBM SAN Volume Control is steep.
With IBM, we can separate the license from storage. That means that you are, for example, with an SSD drive, and you buy an SKU. SSD is one SKU. But if you want another path driver with more capacity, your SKU is 1.4 SKU. You have to compare. With the IBM service you do what you want. Meaning that if you want to make a red six or a red five, you do what you want. You have more tools with the license, you have all the tools to be able to manage your solution. Now, they changed their pricing for redemption tools for compression. They changed it directly in the hardware compression on the drive. This is why I can say that we have all the things to manage and to use the solution with the storage license.
I think the licensing could be improved. With other solutions, you don't need a separate license for storage. With SAN Volume Controller, we need to license by terabyte. With our other products, we license by the box.