IBM Spectrum Virtualize Reviews

Name: IBM Spectrum Virtualize
Brand: IBM
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Vendor: IBM

4.5 out of 5

2 reviews

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize is a dependable solution that improves data value, security, and simplicity for new and existing storage infrastructure. Proven over 12 years in thousands of deployments, its innovative virtualization capabilities help organizations achieve better data economics by supporting new workloads that are critical to their success. IBM Spectrum Virtualize software helps make new and existing storage more effective and standardizes functions traditionally deployed separately in disk systems for greater flexibility and potentially lower costs.

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September 2023

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Pricing

"Generally the bundled licensing is more cost effective and gives flexibility to the solution. Linking into the Spectrum Suite can also be advantageous, but depends on the scale of the enterprise."
"We would like the CPU cycle to save more on the licensing costs for us."
"Do a proof of concept, if you are not comfortable jumping in, but do it."

Valuable Features

"It's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."
"Using SBC, a valuable feature is the mirroring, which is the virtualization of the disk between disparate places."
"One of the main features of Spectrum Virtualize is it virtualizes the servers from the storage. We have a very large infrastructure. A major advantage is when you get the aged storage arrays and you have to replace all of those."

Room For Improvement

"The integration would be an option that we would like, but I understand that's not how it's going to be implemented."
"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites."
"There are things that occur when you get to this size and capacity. We're very large, i.e., petabytes. When you get to that sheer volume of the numbers of things, it is too big for people to keep track of."

Pricing

"Generally the bundled licensing is more cost effective and gives flexibility to the solution. Linking into the Spectrum Suite can also be advantageous, but depends on the scale of the enterprise."
"We would like the CPU cycle to save more on the licensing costs for us."
"Do a proof of concept, if you are not comfortable jumping in, but do it."

Valuable Features

"It's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."
"Using SBC, a valuable feature is the mirroring, which is the virtualization of the disk between disparate places."
"One of the main features of Spectrum Virtualize is it virtualizes the servers from the storage. We have a very large infrastructure. A major advantage is when you get the aged storage arrays and you have to replace all of those."

Room For Improvement

"The integration would be an option that we would like, but I understand that's not how it's going to be implemented."
"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites."
"There are things that occur when you get to this size and capacity. We're very large, i.e., petabytes. When you get to that sheer volume of the numbers of things, it is too big for people to keep track of."

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize is the #14 ranked solution in top Software Defined Storage (SDS) tools. PeerSpot users give IBM Spectrum Virtualize an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most commonly compared to Dell VPLEX: IBM Spectrum Virtualize vs Dell VPLEX. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 64% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 20% of all views.