IBM Spectrum Control Reviews

Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly. IBM also needs to provide proper training to handle Spectrum Control because it's a complicated solution.

I've been using Spectrum Control for almost three years.

The solution is primarily used to monitor storage systems and Fibre Channel switches and report on their performance, availability, and general health.

The ease with which you can drill into whatever individual component, or overall system that you want to look at in terms of performance, that's, to me, the most valuable aspect. 

If there are performance problems you can drill into it and look at every single grueling detail. If you need to, you can export the raw data and look at it in whatever other way you may wish to look at it.

Technical support is quite responsive and helpful.

For the most part, the solution is stable. 

We use IBM Spectrum Control for performance analytics and reporting.

In my opinion, it's the best monitoring and report creation tool for IBM storage devices. You can do a lot of performance stats and reports with very nice tools for IBM storage devices.

Spectrum Control is for our core applications.

Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced.

We use Spectrum Control mainly for our monitoring and reporting solutions. 

The solution is on-premise. We have just one instance of Control. It is one stop, one shop. We just put everything in Control. We can go into the product and not have to worry about merging multiple services.

The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem. For example, if we have a customer who has increased latency, stating that they are having problems with their storage and they want us to take a look at their storage systems and see if there is anything wrong there. I can easily go to Spectrum Control full performance statistics and provide an answer in less than a couple of minutes, whereas it used to take about an hour for a full analysis. So, it does save a lot of time.

We use Storage Insights to help with the monitoring of our IBM Flash Storage System. 

One of the benefits is that it has helped us with the base FlashSystem storage GUI. You only get a five minute snapshot of performance, so with the Insights tool you can get a much broader spectrum of storage captures for 24 hours or longer, and this helps.

The solution can be used for monitoring storage.

The product keeps historical data for a very long time.

The primary use case is to recollect the information for the system and then use the structured information to diagnose customers' problems in the future. 

The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item they choose.