Senior Services Engineer at KENAC COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Real User
2022-06-07T14:17:07Z
Jun 7, 2022
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.
Head of Database Administration, SAN and Storage Infrastructure at United Bulgarian Bank AD
Real User
2022-04-05T09:57:52Z
Apr 5, 2022
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.
Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2022-01-20T10:37:13Z
Jan 20, 2022
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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Patch management and upgrades must be made easier. The storage expansion has some limitations. It must be improved.
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.
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.
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.