IBM Storage FlashSystem Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.4 out of 10

Score

9.4 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for IBM Storage FlashSystem are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

High Performance: Users have consistently praised the system for its ultra-low latency, which has significantly enhanced overall performance and productivity. The fast and responsive read and write times contribute to a seamless user experience.

Wide Portfolio of Options: Reviewers appreciate the extensive range of options offered by the system, catering to various customer sizes and providing scalability and flexibility. The diverse selection allows users to tailor their storage solutions according to their specific needs.

Efficient Centralized Storage: The centralized storage solution is widely acknowledged for its efficiency and ease of management by users. Its space-saving footprint, along with efficient data replication and migration capabilities, make it a valuable asset for secure data management.

Reviews

162 Reviews

IBM Storage FlashSystem - High speed and Reliable

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 20, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Storage FlashSystem as a storage solution to support critical business applications and databases.

It helps us handle large volumes of data quickly and reliably, improving performance and reducing downtime.

The helped us in ensuring smooth operations for our virtual machines, also we use it for taking backups or doing disaster recovery.

Pros

The performance is very good due to its low latency which has helped us to increase the speed of applications or transactions.
It has a built in replication feature, which helps us to take backup automatically.
The UI is very friendly making it easy to perform daily operations faster.

Cons

The prices are little high; may be more flexible licensing option will make it easier for smaller teams to integrate.
Although there are many built in features but some more but some features related to reporting can be a add on

Likelihood to Recommend

It has been well suited for the situation where we need high speed and reliability. The latency is very slow which makes it useful in such situations. Whereas it is not suited for small environments where data is less, it will become little costly. It’s best suited for enterprises with heavy data requirements rather than small teams looking for a simple, budget-friendly storage solution.

Verified User

Consultant in Customer Service (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

IBM Storage FlashSystem Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Storage FlashSystem is a hybrid storage solution from IBM which delivers high speed, Scalability depending upon the need with Security feature added.

Its a hybrid cloud infrastructure which is very useful for organization who wants to protect there data and are not comfortable with the public Cloud infrastructure.

Since We are segregating onto multiple networks and the need of data security arises quite often the use to IBM Storage system has been very helpful

Pros

High Performance
Added Security feature
Seamless Hybrid cloud support
The Scalability option is very good

Cons

The system is very complex to understand
The initial upfront cost is very high due to the complex architecture

Likelihood to Recommend

Data protection is very good in the IBM storage system with back up and archiving option available as well.

We can integrate it with AI for High speed data access which can be very helpful during recovery.

Even though the Initial cost is relatively higher the opiating cost reduces drastically over time.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

The Perfect storage solution IBM Storage FlashSystem

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Storage FlashSystem is a enterprises flash storage system which gives us high performance scalability and protect data on demanding loads. It provides cutting edge storage technology. It works on data compression and deduplication. It provides advance management tool.

Pros

Advance management tool.
Artificial intelligence integration in to IBM Storage FlashSystem
Equipped in Integration with various cloud providers
Lighten fast performance

Cons

It's effective Support function to be more hastle free.
Need too be economically for investment.
Interface could have been more smoth

Likelihood to Recommend

Performance is really good. It delivers low latency and high performance. Ai driven tools are very very usefull. It is reliable and high performance storage solution for enterprise needs

Vivek Singh

Sr Executive QA in Quality Assurance at Amcor flexibles india pvt ltd (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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IBM Storage FlashSystem

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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Pros

Ransomware Detection
Safe Guarded Copy
Performance
High Availability
Detecao de Ransomware
Alta Disponibilidade

Cons

Safe Guarded Copy

Likelihood to Recommend

Data Replication. PBHA.

Replicacao de Dados. PBHA.

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Samuel Antonio

CEO in Information Technology at Trade Technology Representacao Comercial Ltda (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

25 years of experience

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IBM Storage FlashSystem

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, IBM Storage FlashSystem solve problems with high availability

Pros

In my opinion, Speed FCM4 is fantastic
HA
reliability
really well storage
I think IBM Storage FlashSystem does simple administration well

Cons

FCM5 coming is really fantastic
capacity

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storage FlashSystem is very good in reliability and safeguarded options

Robert Pomietlo

System engineer in Engineering at US Steel (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

IBM Storage FlashSystem

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The IBM Storage FlashSystem is a principal storage of our bussiness.

Pros

The IBM Storage FlashSystem is a best system of storage of IBM, that opinion is only my.

Cons

The IBM Storage FlashSystem is utility on-premise for a business,

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I would likely recommend IBM Storage FlashSystem to a colleague because Is utility for many business in my country.

Verified User

Consultant in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Awesome storage.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize SVC and FlashSystem as production storage for our IBMi and VMware environments, and a standalone Flash system for the DR site. We use the SVC Enhanced Stretch cluster as an HA solution for the production site, on top of it, IBMi PowerHA, and a VMware stretched cluster. We then perform PBR for DR purposes and trigger a Safeguarded Snapshot for Cyber Resilience.

Pros

Performance with FlashCore Modules.
Cyber Resilience with safeguarded Snapshots.
IBMi full integration.

Cons

More efficient deduplication.
Increase Flexibility in snapshot scheduling.
DRAID geometry modification.
3 Site replication over long distance and high latency IP networks with PBHA.

Likelihood to Recommend

Top choice for IBMi integration. In general, it's a very good solution for quite a lot of customers. If you need a 3 site replication solution (HA + DR) maybe it's not the best solution, unless you use SVC.

FlashCore Modules have very powerful compression rate, while mantaining good performance: high IOPS rate and really low latency.

Verified User

Team Lead in Professional Services (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

IBM Storage FlashSystem Rocks

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use IBM Storage FlashSystem for VMWare datastores. IBM Storage FlashSystem Addresses performance and capacity utilization for us.

Pros

Simplicity
Speed
Efficient

Cons

Logging into multiple IBM Storage FlashSystems is tedious, even with FlashGrid. Perhaps SSO solves this, but we have not tried this. It would be interesting to be able to log into one system and then be able to manage other systems using trust between the system you are logged into.
Code upgrade should give the option to resume manually when choosing the auto pause option

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I would likely recommend IBM Storage FlashSystem to a colleague because I think IBM Storage FlashSystem is well suited for IBMi and Power. I think it Seems to be less popular with the VMware

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

14 years of experience

IBM Storage FlashSystem Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I love this product, IBM Storage FlashSystem

Pros

Safaguardcopy
FlashModules
Easy administration

Cons

I think IBM Storage FlashSystem has room for improvement with Velocity
In my experience, IBM Storage FlashSystem has room for improvement with Native drivers for IBm
In my opinion, IBM Storage FlashSystem has room for improvement with Storage insighs

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I would likely recommend IBM Storage FlashSystem to a colleague for its Intensive IO for databases

Johnny Gabriel

Advisory in Finance and Accounting at GBM (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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IBM Storage FlashSystem rocks

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a consultant for IBM Power and IBM i. The IBM Storage FlashSystem is a great addition to IBM Power Systems in terms of performance and reliability. Customers who want more redundancy and high availability value IBM Storage FlashSystem. Whether it is just a small customer without any huge SAN configuration or a big customer with four or more IBM Storage FlashSystem in a cluster - the scaling is awesome. One can grow with it and this is why IBM Storage FlashSystems are suitable for almost every use case.

Pros

Management
Security features (like SGC)
Competitive pricing
Software support

Cons

A real replacement for HyperSwap (active/active-cluster)

Likelihood to Recommend

Especially in terms of pricing, IBM Storage FlashSystem is positioned very well. The customer can get a lot for his money. All important features are included into Spectrum Virtualize and they do not charge extra for it. I also like the support you get - they even supply an installation poster to help setting it up. Cluster configurations are simple to set up and work reliable no matter of the distance between locations. The IP quorum can even be set up in the cloud since it is just based off Java and does not consume much resources.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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