IBM SAN Volume Control Reviews

Name: IBM SAN Volume Control
Brand: IBM
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

Vendor: IBM

4.6 out of 5

5 reviews
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Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software—part of the IBM Spectrum Storage family—IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is an enterprise-class storage system that helps organizations achieve better data economics by supporting the new large scale workloads that are critical to success. SVC systems can handle the massive volumes of data from mobile and social applications and enable flexible hybrid multicloud deployments and deliver the performance and scalability needed to gain insights from the latest analytics technologies.

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IBM SAN Volume Control is the #4 ranked solution in top Storage Management solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM SAN Volume Control an average rating of 9.2 out of 10. IBM SAN Volume Control is most commonly compared to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP: IBM SAN Volume Control vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. IBM SAN Volume Control is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 15% of all views.

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March 2024

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Slav Trifonov

Head of Database Administration, SAN and Storage Infrastructure at United Bulgarian Bank AD

Apr 5, 2022

We use this solution mainly for Hyper-V infrastructure and for Oracle Real Application Clusters. We use it in our infrastructure environment because we are a bank. We are the final customer. We upgraded our IVC controls in December 2021. The solution is deployed on-premises. We also have our own…

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Nagendra Nekkala.

Senior Manager ICT & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited

Dec 14, 2023

The product has an ultra-low latency. It enables me to improve my performance and productivity. The product helps with cost and performance optimization. Power consumption is minimal. We chose it for its sustainability. It also has excellent security features Patch management and upgrades must be…

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Kudzanayi Manjera

Senior Services Engineer at KENAC COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Dec 8, 2023

Heterogenous Storage management Consolidation for isolated Storage Subsystems was made extremely easier. The most valuable features of IBM SAN Volume Control are the copy services, performance metrics, and analysis. Additionally, they have upgraded and introduced visual volumes. IBM SAN Volume…

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IBM SAN Volume Control market share

As of March 2024, the market share of IBM SAN Volume Control in the Storage Management category stands at 3.3%, marking a decrease of 68.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The product has an ultra-low latency."
"The most valuable features of IBM SAN Volume Control are the copy services, performance metrics, and analysis. Additionally, they have upgraded and introduced visual volumes."
"The solution is easy to use, easily configurable, and easy to upgrade, manipulate, and add new storage."

Room for Improvement

"Patch management and upgrades must be made easier."
"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."
"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."