IBM Spectrum Virtualize vs. NetApp Element Software

IBM Spectrum Virtualize is very suitable for the virtualization part since it is easy to connect the hypervisors with the storage, also for the video surveillance part since it connects with the recording applications easily, it is also easy to create groups of volumes or hosts for the management of many units at the same time.

Incentivized

• Provision drives over fiber and/or iSCSI connections
• Perform volume replications between 2 storages efficiently
• The ability to virtualize other storage and make it easy to provision

Incentivized

• Costly but worth every dime in staff hours saved
• Each generation has its limits on Fibre Channel speed it supports and one must upgrade the nodes to get to higher speeds
• User Interface is now light speed ahead of where it started.

Incentivized

The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, it does not require investing a lot of time to manage them since they are very reliable and secure.The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, and does not require a lot of time to manage it as it is very reliable and secure.Its components are not easily damaged and any alert that occurs can be quickly corrected without interrupting services.

Incentivized

IBM Spectrum Protect Virtualize beats ALL competition hands down, and one does not need to deal with the complications that are put into some of the Disk Array/ block Storage systems. Excellent Storage management and can see performance of your SAN that goes thru it easily.

Incentivized

• Positive ROI and saves labor costs of engineers
• Fast to implement
• Worth the cost !!

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