We performed a comparison between Dell Storage Resource Manager and IBM SAN Volume Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to control the storage."
"The partitions function well for backup storage."
"It's all about ease of use and reliability."
"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."
"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 virtualization layer has been great."
"The solution is easy to use, easily configurable, and easy to upgrade, manipulate, and add new storage."
"With SVC it is very easy to manage and to use for migration, meaning that when we want to move or to keep control of the volume or update a server database, it is very easy. That's why we use it."
"The product has an ultra-low latency."
"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."
"Technical support is inadequate."
"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."
"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"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."
"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."
"IBM support can be very slow."
"Patch management and upgrades must be made easier."
"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."
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Dell Storage Resource Manager is ranked 5th in Storage Management with 8 reviews while IBM SAN Volume Control is ranked 4th in Storage Management with 5 reviews. Dell Storage Resource Manager is rated 7.2, while IBM SAN Volume Control is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell Storage Resource Manager writes "Great features that allow for supervision of storage, management of users and driver-related updates". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SAN Volume Control writes "Easily configurable, and easy to upgrade, manipulate, and add new storage". Dell Storage Resource Manager is most compared with NetApp OnCommand Insight and NetApp OnCommand, whereas IBM SAN Volume Control is most compared with Dell VPLEX and Huawei OceanStor DJ. See our Dell Storage Resource Manager vs. IBM SAN Volume Control report.
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