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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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| 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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October 02, 2023
Real ultra-low latency storage for everyone
We had challenges in storing and managing massive amount of customer data. We needed ultra-low latency storage solution to keep up the customer experience. Also, we use it for our ML usecase to extract, process and train models real-time. This hybrid-flash solutions helped to simplified data delivery, facilitate real-time analytics generation with scalable virtualisation at affordable cost. We have been it for few years, and i’d say its highly dependable and secure. It has a great portfolio, that perfectly balances performance, capacity, cost and data service to fit business for any size.
- Ultra low latency for best performance and improve productivity
- Wide portfolio options for different customer sizes
- Advanced virtualisation for good scalability
- Safeguarded snapshot creation
- User interface could be improved
- Upgrade and patch could be smoother
- Limitation in storage expansion functionality
September 23, 2023
IBM Storage FlashSystem is a soldi product at a great pricepoint for SMB high end storage needs.
We use IBM Storage FlashSystem as our primary storage array for our virtualization environment. It provides storage for our main 5 host cluster via 16Gb fiber channel. The hosts support roughly 100 virtual machines. The business problems that the unit addresses are providing very fast VM storage with extremely low latency. The array contains 12 NVME storage modules in a ~RAID6 level setup, so that we can lose 2 drives without impacting uptime.
- Low latency
- Storage DRS is supported
- Ease of expansion
- Drive firmware updates are a bit clunky, the update files have to be sourced manually
- IBM has separate storage monitoring you need to set up to get good historical statistics.
- If you need 8 16Gb ports you will not be able to expand with a SAS connector.
September 19, 2023
Reliable and cost effective Flash of IBM
It is mainly targeted to cater to the needs of high-end IOs from different applications across the organization. Mainly focused on delivering mission-critical servers with low latency disk access. This helps us to reduce a significant amount of time while running jobs on various applications across different domains. The storage has been deployed to use across different divisions in the company.
- Performance is the crucial element to be highlighted, as it delivers the best in class industry performance.
- Guaranteed compression ratio, one of the leading in [the] industry we got a 2:1 guaranteed and it achieved as per the commitment.
- Reliability is one of the main elements which works really well, even being a storewide family product it delivers [the] best reliability features.
- [The] footprint is key, as it helped us to reduce our organization's 2 racks storage capacity into a 2U rack space.
- Better GUI interface
- Currently, [the] performance of FS7200 can't be monitored through TPC/SC, this should be considered to include in [the] future.
- IBM primarily lacks in designing its products physical looks, should have designed more intrusive and attractive design. A first impression of the product creates [an] impressive opinion.
July 07, 2022
high-performance system over fibre channel.
The IBM FlashSystem 7200 was employed in our project for six months in critical production situations to accomplish the desired business outcome. This software provides the best repository system and great performance to manage the corporate workload. This gadget offers good system performance and is dependable and stable.
- Getting over a tragedy.
- Data replication and migration.
- The IBM FlashSystem 7200 is capable of supporting iSCSI Extensions for RDMA.
- Training for initial implementation and configuration is somewhat expensive.
May 28, 2022
Over fibre channel, high-performance system
To achieve the business outcome, IBM FlashSystem 7200 was used in our project [for] six months in key production environments. To manage the corporate workload, this software offers the best repository system and high performance. This device is dependable and stable, and it provides excellent system performance.
- Recovering from a disaster
- Replication and migration of data
- iSCSI Extensions for RDMA are supported by the IBM FlashSystem 7200.
- Initial deployment and configuration training is a little pricey.
For medium and large applications that require elite execution memory for their applications and information, a few venture groups in my firm employ the IBM Flash System 5000. It has aided us in matching client expectations for further enhanced business conveyance while also improving the overall speed and execution of major applications.
- Every critical application maintains a high level of performance.
- The transfer of assets is fantastic.
- The group will necessitate a significant amount of planning and comprehension.
- The FS5200 has no shortcomings when compared to prior FlashSystems or Storwize systems.
April 04, 2022
IBM FlashSystem 5000--the services have been excellent
A few venture groups in my firm use IBM Flash System 5000 for medium and enormous applications that request elite execution memory for their applications and information. It has supported the improvement of in general speed and execution of significant applications, as well as assisting us with meeting client assumptions for further developed business conveyance.
- It keeps an elevated degree of execution for every single key application
- Asset conveyance is brilliant
- The group will require a lot of preparing and understanding
March 21, 2022
It's Reliable and Easy to Use
To achieve the business result, IBM FlashSystem 7200 has been implemented in our project for [six months] for critical production environments. This product offers the best repository system as well as high performance for managing business workloads. This product is dependable and stable, and it provides the best system performance.
- Reconstruction after a disaster
- Advanced SAS Connectivity Training is required for initial deployment and configuration.
- iSCSI Extensions for RDMA are also supported by the IBM FlashSystem 7200.
The IBM Flash System 7200 is used by our company to improve and optimize our business processes. It's a fantastic storage repository that all of our company's IT departments use. Its quick performance helped us compress data, and it's also useful for storage efficiency. VMware integration is also possible.
- Performing at a high rate.
- It has compression and replication capabilities.
- More information should be included in need reports.
- The implementation of this application is difficult.
January 13, 2022
A fantastic business outcome
To automate and [optimize] our business processes, we employ the IBM Flash System 7200. It's a fantastic storage repository that all of our company's IT departments rely on. Its quick performance helped us compress data, and it's also useful for storage efficiency. VMware integration is also possible, which is perfect.
- Its user interface is simple.
- Reduce storage latency to boost application performance.
- Initial setup and deployment.
January 12, 2022
IBM FlashSystem 7200 Satisfaction Review
It's fairly useful in terms of furnishing support for a service that we used for about seven months. It lowered the trouble demanded to conduct tasks and dupe data. Its AI is the most important, as the opinions made are truly authentic. and more effective at work. It's one of the most emotional IBM products I've ever seen. That's truly implausible.
- Usage is effective
- Less power consumption
- User friendly
- When compared to other virtual power systems, it is usually quick and has minimal latency.
January 12, 2022
farther dependable
It's fairly useful in terms of furnishing support for a service that we used for about seven months. It lowered the trouble demanded to conduct tasks and dupe data. Its AI is the most important, as the opinions made are truly authentic. and more effective at work. It's one of the most emotional IBM products I've ever seen. That's truly implausible.
- 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 23, 2021
good services
It's fairly useful in terms of furnishing support for a service that we used for about seven months. It lowered the trouble demanded to conduct tasks and dupe data. Its AI is the most important, as the opinions made are truly authentic. and more effective at work. It's one of the most emotional IBM products I've ever seen. That's truly implausible.
- 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
It's very valuable in terms of giving back for a benefit that we utilized for almost seven months. It brought down the exertion required to conduct errands and duplicate information. Its AI is the foremost vital, as the choices made are genuinely true and more effective at work. It's one of the foremost amazing IBM items I've ever seen. That's exceptionally mind-blowing.
- 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 20, 2021
IBM flash storage at its best
It's quite handy for providing support for a service we used for around two years. It reduced the time and effort needed to complete tasks and copy data. Its AI is the most significant since the decisions it makes are true to life and more productive at work. It's one of IBM's most remarkable products that I've ever seen. That is just amazing.
- 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 15, 2021
Good for data storage purpose
IBM Flash System 5000 is used by a variety of project teams in my organization for medium and large applications that require high-performance storage for applications and data. This helped improve the overall speed and performance of critical applications and helped meet customer expectations for better business transactions. That's very incredible.
- 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 01, 2021
Happy review of IBM FlashSystem 5000`s
These are the go-to storage systems for our small ESX deployments. Allowing 4 direct attached FC hosts means they are a perfect match of size and performance
- 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 10, 2021
IBM FlashSystem 7200: The real Flash superhero!
IBM FlashSystem 7200 is being [used] by the IT Infrastructure team to provide storage resources to the servers in the infrastructure. We allocate storage space for different systems based on the business requirements. It addresses the need for faster storage requirements as it is a fully NVMe based storage system. NVMe drives are much faster than the typical storage SSD's. It also addresses the need for scalable storage systems as more disks can be added to the enclosure as and when required.
- Storage Efficiency
- Scalability
- Faster Provisioning of LUN's
- It would be great if the solution costs are lowered.
- Better user interface would be helpful.
- Better Compression
August 09, 2021
A tool that provides maximum availability and is reliable.
IBM Flash System 7200 is being used in our company to streamline and uplift our business process. It is an outstanding storage repository and is used around all of our organization's IT departments. Its high performance helped us in compression and it is highly beneficial in storage optimization and it allows integration with VMware and it is perfect.
- Its high-speed performance helps streamline our business process.
- Its integration is astounding, most specifically with VMware.
- It allows replication and DRP compression.
- Its interface is quite simple with so many enormous features.
- Its subscription rate is unfair and is highly expensive.
- Reports should be elaborative probably with more insight and should inform about the performance.
- Deployment of this tool is quite complex and tricky.
August 06, 2021
7200 review
We are currently utilizing these systems for enterprise-wide backups.
- Quick copies of full production.
- Reliable.
- Provides production uptime 24x7.
- Condensing the space with the backups.
August 03, 2021
A premium tool for those who are budget constrained.
Used across the entire business where we have a SAP ECC production environment running on devices connected to IBM Power Systems. Storage devices are exceptionally fast using NVMe Flash disks/arrays and are therefore achieving greater compression ratios by using on-board hardware compression accelerators. Even out read/write operations are faster than before which generally spends up a whole host of business functions.
- Excellent support structure from IBM
- Integration of the system with a host of midrange devices is super easy
- GUI is intuitive and easy to navigate between models.
- Some of the connective functionality with the IBM storage insights software is lacking.
- IBM need to focus more specifically on their existing issues, rather than always seem to be pushing the bigger and newer versions.
We use this for a high-performance record-keeping system that is highly transactional. Queries need to be resolved in milliseconds and in many cases require computations involving complex calculations and large data sets. We were able to move our database devices over to the FlashSystem 7200 storage which greatly improved the performance over traditional SAN storage. This was by far our best and easiest performance gain. We are using this within our department.
- High performance
- Low latency
- Easy to present storage
- Data storage
- Easier to use encryption.
December 14, 2020
Affordable Storage System for Midsize Organizations
We mostly use this system in a hybrid cloud environment for the whole organization. It is easy to use and maintain and it has a very good performance for a mid-size enterprise. We use it as a storage system for core custom applications. Previously we used a V3000 series and upgraded it to V5000 due to new requirements and we are very happy with the decision. Also the price-performance ratio is good.
- Great user interface.
- Good performance with SSD SAS.
- Very affordable.
- Easy to scale.
- Lack of 32Gb fibre channel.
December 10, 2020
IBM FlashSystem 7200 (formerly Storwize V7000) - a good storage alternative to midsize enterprises
[IBM FlashSystem 7200 (formerly Storwize V7000)] is our current storage system for the entire company. It provides the disk space that our applications and users need. We have been using it more than 3 years and increased the capacity as needed without any issues. It gives a solid performance which helps you feel confident for the business continuity
- Good performance
- Ease of management and automated reporting features
- Security and policy usage
- Maintenance is not cheap
- Implementation could be difficult
- Comes in block
December 05, 2020
The Market Leader in Solid Hybrid Solutions
Fujitsu used Storwize for a variety of different tasks, primarily for ETERNUS systems hybrid systems. The incredible speed of the solid storage of IBM [FlashSystem 5000 (formerly Storwize V5000E)] was incredibly powerful and far faster than tape or hard-drive storage in our hybrid systems. It allowed for quicker caching which then could be stored into tape or hard-drive.
- Incredible transfer speed
- Easily integrates with hybrid systems
- Excellent disaster recovery
- NVMe storage understandably far more expensive than tape or hard-drive
- Machines are huge despite not having as many moving parts
- If you're not using Cisco systems it's not as easy to set up