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Review on IntelliMagic Vision for SAN by Victor Garro

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Quite helpful for setting up storage for Windows Virtual Machine

I like how it allows me to create logical volumes and see what they contain, including file system types (NTFS, FAT32, etc.). Also nice feature is you can use VHD or vmdk format images. No dislike as such! But maybe some other features are not very intuitive yet. For example when using VMware View Client Connector option while creating Storage Cluster - sometimes I dont get all options available in dropdown list. So far so good though and everything seems working fine. When testing different scenarios with this tool I noticed my Windows Virtual Machine did not have enough space even if I used only 10GB per virtual machine disk image. It was hard to figure out why because of lack of sufficient data points. Therefore I suggest having few test servers/VM's set up just to be able to run your own tests before production. This will help you understand possible implications better.

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Pros
  • Abilityto manage storage resources
  • Supportfor multiple platforms(Windows Server 2008 R2and ESXi5)
  • Easy interfacewith great visuals.
  • Good support documentationavailable online at IBM website
Cons
  • Not the best