IBM Spectrum Virtualize Stability

ZvonimirFrlan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at Combis d.o.o.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten. We faced some minor problems.

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Nicolae Chirea - PeerSpot reviewer
System and Solutions Architect at Seidor

The stability of the performance is very good.

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MD
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I have seen issues where the system just basically failed, depending on how you raid some volumes. For example, if you use raid five and you happen to have a dual drive failure. No matter what system it is, you will have a problem; you will lose data. Compared to other systems, I would say it is at the top of that list regarding availability, reliability, and serviceability.

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KV
Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is pretty stable. We have not had that much downtime. 

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it_user672432 - PeerSpot reviewer
Media Storage Services Manager at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It has been very stable. I haven't had any concern as far as stability is concerned.

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it_user868239 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer at ADT Corporation

Stability is rock solid. We have never had an outage.

We have gone through code updates, UPS battery replacements, and node failures. Nobody ever notices anything.

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PK
Storage Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have found the solution to be very stable.

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JJ
Solutions Platform Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I have had some issues where I was losing new features, but most of the problems were coming from the firmware. The problem is that most people won't have a test environment for this solution because you need to virtualize other storage. This means building another solution, which won't make sense at the end of the day. The firmware goes right into your production, and there you go. There were also a few other bugs on a site that troubled me for probably eight months.

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it_user12768 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has been very stable. I am pushing a very heavy workload, a couple million I/Os at peak times. I have very heavy throughput with a lot databases: a lot Oracle, a lot of VMware and virtualization, and a lot of midrange virtualization. So, it is handling every platform.

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LH
Solutions Architect at ABF Data Systems, Inc.

Occasionally, there are issues with a node or something, but because it is a clustered system, it is stable. Overall, it does not go down. I do not know if IBM has ever had a system which has ever caused any loss of data. Therefore, I am very confident in recommending it to my customers.

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it_user672360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage administrator at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Stability has been outstanding. There are failures, but they are designed to have failures, and we have not had a single data loss incident, even throughout some pretty funky upgrades.

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MD
Enterprise Architect at QCM Technologies

Stability is very good. I have been working with the product for probably 15 years. I have put it in production during critical workloads without a problem.

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CO
Storage/SAN Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stability has greatly improved since day one. It's much easier to implement. It's not so white knuckle when you're doing upgrades and things like that. So they have come a long way.

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it_user672423 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Stability is awesome; it's very stable.

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it_user674250 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product is very, very stable. It is much more stable than the open system configurations that we've worked with. It has the highest stability that we have seen.

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it_user672441 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Chief Architect at Unisys

The stability is very good. We just finished running non-stop for one year. It was perfect, with no down-time at all. Zero. 100% availability.

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KC
Storage Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We've had some issues with the production rate behind SVC. We had problems with back-end storage areas having double disk failures. It took a while to recognize errors, due to some of the environmental settings within the data center. When the temperature increased, we started seeing more drive failures on the back-end. But over the last 18 months, we've had zero downtime across the board.

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it_user672420 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Very good. Very stable.

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it_user672438 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The stability is fine. I've been working with Spectrum Virtualize for two years. I saw them encounter problems and those problems are minimal. It's pretty much stable.

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it_user672414 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Overall, I would say that stability is very good.

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it_user672399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

For the vast majority of the time, it's absolutely awesome. I had a couple isolated problems with reliability, mostly related to replication, but I have been able to work through them.

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it_user672333 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Admin Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The stability is excellent.

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it_user672330 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees

It's been pretty stable, but we've had some issues. I wouldn't say it's poor, but the resiliency has been less than what we expect from an enterprise class product.

It appears to us, over several decades, that quality control waxes and wanes. That's scary for us, because as a new system comes out and we install it, we really expect it to be an enterprise class product and not to have problems. We expect it all to be bullet-proof, and it hasn't been in our experience.

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it_user672417 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical analyst 3 at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For the most part, stability has been really good. Like anything else, the more you use it, the more times you're going to run into a bug. We've certainly done that.

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it_user868257 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The SVC port (virtualized port) is very stable, but the Storwize port is not so stable.

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it_user694704 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Specialist and Solution Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I have encountered stability issues in situations when the customer-provided AC power has defects. A newer version of the firmware resulted in storage nodes not updating or starting.

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it_user672342 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead for Storage and Backup at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Stability on our side is very good.

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it_user672405 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Stability has been good. Stability has been high, actually. We've had some minor issues, and IBM has been quick to fix those. I don't have any issues with the stability.

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it_user674247 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stability has been very good. We're more on the conservative side, in that we are not going out and downloading the latest and greatest code. We are a couple of releases behind, but it's been very stable.

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it_user187272 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No issues at all.

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it_user672411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

In more recent years, we've been very happy with stability. We went through a lot of bumps with the earlier releases of code.

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it_user672327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Admin at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stability is pretty good.

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it_user672372 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Storage Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability is good.

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it_user672429 - PeerSpot reviewer
Archiect at Gulf Business Machines

This product is very good in terms of the stability and scalability. The security features are also very good.

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it_user672426 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client technical architect at Gbm

This product has been on the market for the last fifteen years. It's a wonderful product and the new releases from IBM are just great. New functionality is being added and it's a wonderful product.

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it_user674235 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

For us, the stability is great. We don't have a problem with this solution. We have our own systems and we integrate with other systems. When we have stability problems because of compatibility between other vendors, the same vendor, and many solutions, we lose money because of longer implementation times.

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