Technical specifications

 

     
IBM Spectrum Virtualize at a glance On-premises Public cloud
Storage supported Built-in and more than 500 different systems from IBM and others IBM Cloud Performance and Endurance storage; AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS); Azure Managed Disk
Licensing approach Tiered cost per TB (SVC) or per enclosure (FlashSystem family)

Simple, flat cost per capacity

Monthly licensing

Platforms SVC, IBM FlashSystem family, VersaStack, software only IBM Cloud Bare Metal server infrastructure; AWS Elastic Compute servers (EC2); Azure VMs
Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) Integrated RAS capabilities Flexible RAS: Cloud and software RAS capabilities
Service IBM support for hardware and software IBM support for software in the IBM public cloud environment