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IBM Spectrum Scale Valuable Features

Bernd Stroehle. - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at kosakya

I find IBM Spectrum Scale to be an excellent product known for its fast parallel file system. It achieved the best results when integrated with IBM hardware. Even though it is complex, it provided significant performance advantages in large-scale data management. Its fault tolerance mechanisms and integration capabilities make it popular for extensive AI initiatives and data processing tasks for organizations like Daimler Benz and Bosch.

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

We use GPFS Scale for parallel file access, the file management, and it's an essential part of our operations. It's the only feature we are using since we have not explored other options.

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KK
IT Technical Architect at AVALIS
The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Scale is its ability to perform parallel writing and reading of large files. The data replication functionality and recovery feature are also good. View full review »
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Janith Ranasinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - IT at LankaClear

The profile share is a valuable feature. We only use the parallel file system at my company.

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

GPFS monitoring is the best feature. The performance is very good and so is the scalability. 

The NFS CL solution is impressive because if you have a power loss for any reason from the consumer host, the system switches seamlessly to the next available node in this cluster. This happens without any interruption in the data stream, reading or writing. 

When the system is coming back from the maintenance or the reboot cycle, the system switches automatically back to the initial host. This is very good and very friendly. I have never seen this before when comparing to other solutions such as NetApp, and Dell EMC Unity. NetApp is also very good for NFS solutions.

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KK
IT Technical Architect at AVALIS

The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better.

The pricing is pretty good.

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PV
Infrastructure Architect at Getronics UK Limited

The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms. It is platform agnostic and not attached to IBM, AIX, Windows, or Linux.

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

The ease of use and the stability of the product. It has been pretty reliable throughout the years. As far as capacity is concerned, it can handle most heavy loads, unlike NFS or even NAS. In this particular case, it is seamless. That is the biggest thing.

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it_user868272 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We can have multiple systems within the same file system. The performance right now on the file system is better than NAS.

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

It has less overhead. We do a lot of training on our SAS environment. 

We had JFS2 file systems, and we made things so fast that JFS2 could not keep up with it. It took us down to a crawl. Spectrum Scale reduced the overhead and allowed SAS to perform.

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

Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for.

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AS
Technical Manager at ASM Computer

The solution's most valuable features are speed, integration with multiple platforms, and the ability to connect to virtualized storage resources.

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IBM Spectrum Scale
June 2025
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