We performed a comparison between Dell EMC DataIQ and IBM SAN Volume Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."The product can be used to analyze data usage."
"The virtualization layer has been great."
"The solution is easy to use, easily configurable, and easy to upgrade, manipulate, and add new storage."
"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 product has an ultra-low latency."
"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 solution’s GUI is a little bit confusing."
"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."
Dell EMC DataIQ is ranked 10th in Storage Management with 1 review while IBM SAN Volume Control is ranked 4th in Storage Management with 5 reviews. Dell EMC DataIQ is rated 8.0, while IBM SAN Volume Control is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell EMC DataIQ writes "A stable and scalable tool that can be used to monitor and analyze data". 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 EMC DataIQ is most compared with IBM Storage Insights, whereas IBM SAN Volume Control is most compared with Dell VPLEX, Dell Storage Resource Manager and Huawei OceanStor DJ.
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