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What is IBM Storage FlashSystem?
IBM's FlashSystem is a flash array storage option.
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- Simplicity (110)8.989%
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What is IBM Storage FlashSystem?
IBM FlashSystem is an all-flash storage portfolio that promises the following benefits and capabilities:
Engineered to meet modern high-performance application requirements
Ultra-low latency, cost-effectiveness, operational efficiency, and mission-critical reliability are built in to every all-flash storage solution and all-flash array
A comprehensive all-flash storage portfolio
IBM is able to deliver all-flash solutions tailored to the user's storage environments and workloads. IBM financing and payment options are available.
Technology supported by guarantees
IBM states they guaratee endurance, performance and compression are guaranteed, and they offer extended support and maintenance
IBM Storage FlashSystem Features
- Supported: FlashCore Modules
- Supported: FCM inline compression
- Supported: high performance deduplication
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IBM Storage FlashSystem Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | English |
Frequently Asked Questions
IBM's FlashSystem is a flash array storage option.
HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray, and Dell PowerMax NVMe are common alternatives for IBM Storage FlashSystem.
Reviewers rate Flash Array Performance and Simplicity highest, with a score of 8.9.
The most common users of IBM Storage FlashSystem are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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January 12, 2022
farther dependable
- Less power consumption
- User friendly
- Usage is effective
- When compared to other virtual power systems, it is usually quick and has minimal latency.
- Its perfection and responsibility set it piecemeal.
January 11, 2022
With great storage comes great reasonability
- Interface
- Ease of implementation.
- Automated troubleshooting.
- Performance report out of the box.
- Interface slow due to animation
- Advanced troubleshooting requires CLI instead of GUI.
- More easy to follow resources on CLI.
January 07, 2022
Ibm Fash system rocks!
- Simplification of data delivery
- Ease of storage
- Best balance of performance
- Affordable
- Good for entry work load
- It can scale up the storage capacity
- Needs an internal scheduler
- Need to add some protection features
January 04, 2022
It gives an excellent performance
- The amount of power [consumption] is reducing.
- NV Memory Optimized From Start to End
- friendly to the user.
- Need some training for Initial deployment.
- The cost is a little more.
December 31, 2021
IBM FlashSystem 7200 review from a veteran storage consultant
- provides the end to end NVMe, that combined with our NVMe enabled hosts and SAN directors to provide amazing performance
- Storage Class memory also adds to the ultralow latency
- the immutable copy features help us to keep a golden copy at all times to protect against the cyber attacks
- Data Reduction pools are handy, but they lack the support for vvols
- SAN BOOT is not supported for certain AIX versions when connected using the NVME/FC protocol
- Maintenance can be made easier
- TCO can be brought down as compared to competition
December 30, 2021
Ultra-low latency, Cost-Effectiveness, Operational Efficiency and mission-critical reliability all in one IBM Storage
- Large scalable cache
- Data migration
- Management of logical volumes
- Only block storage
- Suitable for smaller environments with performance tolerance
- Speed
- Performance
- Architecture
- Network issues
- Lag when heated up
December 29, 2021
IBM's one of the best product till date
- Architecture and its build
- Storage
- Availability and service
- Speed
- Performance
- Network lagging
December 28, 2021
End Customer is happy with product
- Visualize total storage consumption on bar graph.
- Login screen is very friendly.
- Diagnostics available.
- Multi factor authentication.
- Volume to VG at OS mapping.
- More roles for users.
December 28, 2021
IBM flash system 5000
- Reliability
- Easy to use tools
- Performance is very good
- Data retrieving is slow
- It takes time to setup and understand software tools.
- Heat issues
December 28, 2021
Best IBM storage FlashSystem
- Storage virtualization
- NVMeoF
- Backup
December 24, 2021
IBM Flashsystem 5000, a winning bet
- Super simple administration across the full product line: no other vendor has the same interface for the FULL product line, which is just unbelievable from the storage admin point of view.
- The most flexible configurations capabilities of all the top storage arrays sellers. Usually, other vendors impose strong configuration restrictions sizing the arrays and combining different disk types, this is not the case with the FlashSystem products.
- Full line replication capabilities: believe it or not you can replicate data not only between [the] same range models but between any model within the full product line, from the modest FS5015 to the high-end storage virtualizer SAN Volume Controller.
- Currently, the protected snapshots are scheduled from the external software Copy Services Manager. That’s great when you have several machines but for customers, with just one storage array an internal scheduler will be a more practical option.
- There is a wide number of entry-level FS50xx (5010,5030,…) out there. These machines currently lack the protection capability and will be great to do whatever IBM can to give them at least a minimum possible protection feature.
- We think that the Data Reduction Pools have to improve [the] performance of entry-level arrays. Currently, we prefer standard pools in these machines that lack the hardware compression of her bigger sisters.
December 23, 2021
good services
- Less power consumption
- User friendly
- Usage is effective
- When compared to other virtual power systems, it is usually quick and has minimal latency.
- Its perfection and responsibility set it piecemeal.
December 22, 2021
good performance
- Friendly to use.
- Simple to use.
- Power consumption is less.
- Its accuracy and constancy set it separated.
- When compared to other virtual power systems, it is usually quick and has minimal latency.
December 22, 2021
The drive is now flashy
- Simple to operate
- Easy to use
- Suitable
- Affordable
- Cloud infrastructure
- Synchronization
- Training
December 20, 2021
IBM flash storage at its best
- It is usually speedy and has low latency when compared to other virtual power systems.
- It stands out for its precision and dependability.
- High precision.
- The retrieval of data takes a long time.
- Issues with the heat.
December 17, 2021
IBM FlashSystem 5000
- Its accuracy and reliability set it apart.
- Compared to other virtual power systems, it is generally fast and has minimal latency.
- Heat issues.
- Data retrieving is slow.
December 16, 2021
The Best Storage Option for All Businesses
- It is notable for its accuracy and durability.
- [It is] extremely precise.
- The retrieval of data takes a long time.
- There are issues with the heat.
December 15, 2021
Good for data storage purpose
- Resource distribution is excellent.
- It has accuracy and reliability.
- It is usually fast and has minimal delay compared to other virtual power.
- It takes time to set up and management is difficult.
- Data retrieving is slow.
December 10, 2021
The hardware performance storage
- Latency
- IOPS
- Deduplication
- IBM [FlashSystem 5000] support is not okay
- Lack of features
December 10, 2021
IBM flash system has more advantages than other flash storages
- high speed
- fast storage system
- best flash system
- heat issues
- latency
- data may be lost during retrieve
December 07, 2021
IBM FlashSystem 7200 Great Business Result
- Disaster recovery
- Data Migration and replication
- End to End NVMe Optimized
- IBM FlashSystem 7200 also support iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
- Bit costly
- Training are required for initial deployment and configuration
- Advanced SAS Connectivity
December 02, 2021
IBM FlashSystem 7200 review
- Data replication
- Disaster recovery
- Data migration
- [Hyper] converge
December 01, 2021
Happy review of IBM FlashSystem 5000`s
- Price to performance. Our clients are always looking to cut margins and still expect top performance. The IBM FlashSystem 5000 series enable us to give a great bang per buck ratio
- With hybrid flash we get the performance we need and the right capacity maximizing the ROI
- Simple to manage interface and commonality across the IBM range
- Like all the Storwize product range the snapshots can be a little confusing especially if coming from other IBM arrays like XIV
- Max speed on image mode migrations needs to be increased
- Maybe increase the default replication bitmap space I have run out and needed to expand it from time to time
November 22, 2021
Speedy Gonzales!
- End to end NVMe.
- Lower latency.
- High Availability.
- Compression with no performance impact.
- Snapshot management.
- Integration with vmware on storage gui.
- Detailed performance screen might be better.