IBM Spectrum Virtualize Stability
I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten. We faced some minor problems.
View full review »The stability of the performance is very good.
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reviewer1264842
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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SysEng551561
Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is pretty stable. We have not had that much downtime.
View full review »It has been very stable. I haven't had any concern as far as stability is concerned.
View full review »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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reviewer1590612
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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reviewer1404255
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.
View full review »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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Lance Hawkes
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.
View full review »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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Michael Drapkin
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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Christopher Okerberg
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.
View full review »Stability is awesome; it's very stable.
View full review »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.
View full review »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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Kannan Chandrasekaran
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.
View full review »Very good. Very stable.
View full review »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.
View full review »Overall, I would say that stability is very good.
View full review »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.
View full review »The stability is excellent.
View full review »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.
View full review »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.
View full review »The SVC port (virtualized port) is very stable, but the Storwize port is not so stable.
View full review »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.
View full review »Stability on our side is very good.
View full review »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.
View full review »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.
View full review »No issues at all.
View full review »In more recent years, we've been very happy with stability. We went through a lot of bumps with the earlier releases of code.
View full review »Stability is pretty good.
View full review »The stability is good.
View full review »This product is very good in terms of the stability and scalability. The security features are also very good.
View full review »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.
View full review »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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