IBM Storage Scale Reviews & Product Details

As SDS Solution it is a flexible platform to fit our storage challenges in all aspects to provisioning a performant, scalable storage solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In some areas of function there are some gaps to interoperate with the current implementation of IAM Provider like sssd on Red Hat. Another aspect of scale is that there are very complex filesystems with many parameters that are great, but the different use cases generate different IO patterns. This generates different performance tuning options that are not very well documented and there are small hints available to automate and write the correct values to optimize this. This is currently science work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Functionality, performance and flexibility. Hardware and storage options with data management tools. Range of configuration and tuning options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ECE Version is not available ppcle, therefore IC922 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can write the same file at two or more application nodes at a time. And users can access those files concurrently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need or consume more storage to write the same file at two or more application nodes at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. It is easily scalable with its clustering options to support high storage requirements. 2. It can support both Hot-Hot datacenter approaches, meaning both replicas can be active at the same time. 3. A very good and innovative option to store large amounts of data. 4. Although it is a product of IBM, it can support both IBM and non-IBM storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really. It works pretty well. So no complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility of the platform is substantial and unique. It is the only filesystem that combines all the functionality it does with the level of enterprise integration capability and feature-richness of its kind. The platform has impressive developers and multiple teams globally that work on different parts of the project. Perhaps one of the best parts is the ability to have different teams work on different components to achieve customer outcomes. Performance is "king" in Spectrum Scale. It is a parallel filesystem made to "go fast" but it is also a product to "manage" data. It is more than just an HPC filesystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a complex product. It is not meant for those that have not worked with these types of technologies before or those who have no familiarity with parallel filesystem technologies. It is a "big" product, has a lot of moving parts and there are many gotchas and pitfalls if care and time are not paid diligence in implementation. The product documentation is also (often) not completely up to date when compared to the release versions, such that a version might be released but its upgrade procedures are not published at that point, so one might find that old instructions do not work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best thing is about the high-performance SAN capability with LUNs providing extensive scaling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After working with IBM and NetApp storage systems, IBM seems a bit complex in terms of cloud tiering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reliability is the best word to describe Spectrum Scale from IBM. Been using it for a couple of years and never experienced a downtime due to the platform itself. IBM support is also very helpful in case of questions or upgrades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can't think of any downsides, everything works as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fast and accurate support from IBM when having problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The systems resulted unstable when several users were accessing the same file from different nodes. Snapshots provoke the system to respond really slow for few minutes when they are running or deleting (several times per day) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great transparent Cloud tiering service. Manages NFS exports, AFM and gateway nodes easily, when Protocols are enabled on the cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used this page to grant access to the remote clusters and it worked great. Also helped me to notify administrators when system events occurred. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High availability, I think it's not big different than old system GPFS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing in specific but may I say the configuration some time complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.