HPE MSA (modular smart array), formerly HP StorageWorks MSA, is a series of storage appliances, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, a product line built for a modest budget, available as the HPE MSA 2052 hybrid flash array, the HPE MSA 2500 SAN storage appliance, and the MSA 1050 SAN storage.
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IBM Storage FlashSystem
Score9 out of 10
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IBM Storage FlashSystem, an all-flash storage array, delivers ~2 PB of effective capacity per single rack unit. Engineered with unique FlashCore Modules, it offloads data services including compression, encryption, deduplication, and ransomware threat detection ensuring optimum performance and resiliency.
The HPE MSA is best suited for basic SAN requirements. Having dual controllers provides redundancy and allows for firmware upgrades without incurring downtime to the environment. It provides enough IOPS for most workloads be it VMWare or servers requiring storage. For applications such as MS SQL or Exchange, other SAN solutions would be better. Plus the lack of storage snapshot capabilities is also a detriment to the product line. Lack of any reporting capability is also an issue especially when determining workload capabilities.
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Coming from another brand's array where stability was a concern, we are very satisfied with our move to IBM storage arrays. Our IBM Storage FlashSystems are performing as expected, using physically a tiny amount of space compared to our older storage and the benefits of threat monitoring included in the Flashcore modules, at not costs financially nor performance wise as a great addition. Our maintenance costs and our time spent overlooking and managing the systems have considerably dropped.
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Performance and responsiveness: FlashSystem delivers high-performance storage for business-critical IBM i workloads, supporting applications that depend on consistent storage response times and I/O performance.
Reliability and availability: It provides an enterprise-class storage platform suitable for critical workloads where storage availability is essential to maintaining business operations.
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Firmware upgrades. We have had major issues on two occasions, causing extended downtime. HP was quick to help and resolve, but I am not sure why our simple implementation caused an issue that should have been picked up by testing prior to release. Once was bad, twice painful. The end result is that we purchased a unit solely to test firmware upgrades on, not really great for us!
Support life span. Units go end of life support after around 4 years, a little too short for us.
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While the GUI does a pretty good job at simplifying most things. Expanding storage in a volume, you have to remove a volume from a group before you can expand. There may be a reason for this, but would love the option for it to do that task for you.
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It is a functioning Replication system for us and checks all the boxes that the auditors are looking for. Further, it is inexpensive and the storage we purchased was cheap. HP has a good reputation in the industry that plays into the decision also.
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As flash technology evolves rapidly, vendors should [adapt] to the changes and onboard them in their products. IBM is a bit slow in adopting advanced technology in [its] portfolio. Even though the current product is good, my decision is purely based on how the transformation of the product [is] being produced and supplied to [the] end-user.
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The integration into our SVC and the midrange systems are very well working. We do use cross site replication and global mirror which in turn is easy setup and the consistency groups are well maintained. The storage does global mirroring but also internal cross room replication as well. The integration of cloud object storage also helps in tiering the overall system.
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Yes. The last really issues I've seen in the environments of my customers were back in the "Storwize" era of systems. Issues with code updates or sometimes rarely failing critical components. BUT: since every component is at least dual redundant even back in that day real outages were very rare. And today in the "FlashSystem Era" the systems are so reliable and available even during code updates there are no complaints. I think the 5 or 6 9s are completely achieved.
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Latency and throughput have been excellent. The compression is done natively on the NVME modules so we do not see an impact there. the distributed parity does not seem to impact write speeds at all. We have found database performace has increased quite a bit over our old hybrid storage solution.
Having a single tier of performance makes it easy to set up SLAs for workloads.
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I would rate the overall support for IBM Storage FlashSystem with a 10. The response times have consistently been fast, and the support engineers always come prepared with relevant questions and practical solutions. They demonstrate a deep understanding of the product and our use case, which means issues are typically resolved quickly and without unnecessary back-and-forth. This level of support has been especially valuable for our SAP environment, where uptime and quick resolution are critical.
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Very good traning by experienced personnel. I attend instructor led sessions on IBM TechExchange and STUs before as well as IBM workshops for FlashSystems at IBM Böblingen which I helped to prepare and improve after piloting them. Absolutely nothing to complain about FlashSystem training in Germany or USA. So: all good here!
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THe training is often selfpaced and easy to follow if you have worked previously with other storage products. The content is clear and contains all the information needed for an admin to learn. However the troubleshooting part is not always included and this is dependent on forums or other sources where the information is not accessible very easily.
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I was amazed by the way IBM Flash storage provides a huge amount of storage within the limited footprint, it helped us to replace big fat storage arrays, which aided in the process of moving towards lower hardware, carbon, and energy consumption footprint. We can comfortably say that Flash helped us to host applications fast with a blazing speed and user transactions are quite quick.
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The dual controller configuration of the HPE MSA trumps the Synology DiskStation's single controller configuration. For that alone, I would select the HPE MSA. Without that setup, any controller issue or firmware upgrade is disruptive to the systems the SAN is providing storage to. Furthermore, HPE's support is better than what Synology currently provides. The lack of phone support on Synology's part slows down the troubleshooting of issues compared to HPE. Furthermore, HPE's engineers are able to do a remote session and can work on the problems directly compared to Synology's support.
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IBM FlashSystem delivers better ROI than Dell storage because it maintains low latency and performance even with compression, snapshots, and replication. As a result, it delivers a smaller footprint and better energy efficiency while maintaining the same performance characteristics. Also, the combination of safeguarded copy and anomaly detection in IBM FlashSystem provides stronger operational resilience.
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I'm using cognos - especially cognos reports - as a part of IBMs Storage Intelligence software to manage datacenters and report storage and overall resource consumption to my customers. The software is reliable and - my customers who are using cognos in their businesses - say that they are very satisfied about the scalability of cognos. I can give it only an 8 rating because of the quite heavy resource footprint...
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The guarantee of business continuity and hot updates allows the systems to be always on with potentially enormous social consequences (think about what would happen in the event of a malfunction in the supply of goods to the points of sale)
The guarantee of data immutability allows for a multi-platform barrier against malware in the event that res ad triarios rediit
Integrated deduplication and compression, as well as support for many years of queue versions, allow customers to operate their investments at their best and with peace of mind
la garanzia di business continuity e di update a caldo permette AI sistemi di essere always on con ricadute sociali potenzialmente enormity (pensiamo a cosa accadrebbe in Caso di malfunzionamento a livello di approvvigionamento delle merci AI punti vendita)
la garanzia di immutabilita' del dato permette di avere una barriera multipiattaforma contro il malware nel Caso in cui res ad triarios rediit
la deduplica e la compressione integrate, oltreche' al supporto Delle versioni di code per molti anni permettono AI clienti di operate al meglio Ed in tranquillita' I propri investimenti
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