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IBM Spectrum Scale Room for Improvement

Bernd Stroehle. - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at kosakya

There can be improvements in fault tolerance and making erasure coding faster. 

Additionally, it would be beneficial to have example configurations or applications that assist in setup and configuration.

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JanithRanasinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Depute CIO at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

I wish there were some graphical user interface to access the GPFS file system creation and monitoring.

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KK
IT Technical Architect at AVALIS
There is room for improvement in the web interface. There could be more information available, such as charts and graphs to monitor performance. View full review »
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Janith Ranasinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - IT at LankaClear

I rate this solution a nine out of ten. I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it.

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reviewer1249170 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Expert Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage. It can consume block storage, you can put it on from the storage and present the span over the fiber channel or iSCSI. The problem is that they have not been able to provide block storage consumable to the customer host. This is only a side-based solution. We can install the GPFS into the customer environment but I don't think that is the best solution.

The initial setup has room for improvement, it is not straightforward.

Spectrum scale is very good from the performance perspective, but from the application perspective, you have to take care if you want to use a database as a service that you can consume. For example, a database, or being able to read and write it, doesn't have a deployment solution. It is missing.

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AS
Team Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Integration with other vendors is not available. This feature would be very helpful.

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KK
IT Technical Architect at AVALIS

The solution would benefit from being simplified.

The scalability could be a bit better. It needs to be more flexible when it comes to expanding.

It would be helpful if there was a graphical user interface that could walk you through the deployment process. The instructions surrounding setup aren't the best. They need to be more step-by-step.

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PV
Infrastructure Architect at Getronics UK Limited

The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers.

It is not always easy to sell this product because certain aspects seem complicated for the customer.

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it_user868248 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Assoc at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Maybe it needs integration with HA.

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it_user868251 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Unix Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It does everything we need it to do. 

Though, making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation.

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it_user868245 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well. Thus, we need to decide whether we need to actually use an IBM solution. However, that decision is way above my level.

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AS
Technical Manager at ASM Computer

The solution's pricing could be better.

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