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What is IBM Storage FlashSystem?
IBM's FlashSystem is a flash array storage option.
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Easy to handle, scalable and performance driven platform for various use cases.
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high-performance system over fibre channel.
Best for midsize workloads
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The services provided by IBM FlashSystem 5000 were outstanding.
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Popular Features
- Flash Array Performance (108)8.989%
- Simplicity (110)8.989%
- Flash Array Integration (109)8.383%
- Data Compression (107)8.383%
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Enterprise Flash Array Storage
All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.
- 8.9Flash Array Performance(108) Ratings
Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives
- 8.3Flash Array Integration(109) Ratings
Integration with hypervisors and applications
- 8.3Data Compression(107) Ratings
Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements
- 8.3Non-Intrusive Upgrades(103) Ratings
Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required
- 8.9Simplicity(110) Ratings
Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training
- 8.8Power Savings(106) Ratings
Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives
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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 |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English |
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(1-4 of 4)Reliable and cost effective Flash of IBM
- 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.
- Flash Array Performance
- 100%10.0
- Flash Array Integration
- 80%8.0
- Data Compression
- 100%10.0
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades
- 100%10.0
- Simplicity
- 70%7.0
- Power Savings
- 100%10.0
- There is a significant improvement for OLTP applications.
- Jobs run/execution time reduced by around 70%.
- Saving significant amount of cost in cooling and power.
- Savings on spending management/administration cost, as the product is straightforward to maintain with in-house engineers.
- OLTP Applications
- Oil discovery
- Seismic data analysis
- In-house applications
- N/A
- Planning to use as staging space to [speed up] the backups as the environment is already equipped with high-speed data transfer from servers to storage.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Implemented in-house
- Third-party professional services
- No significant issues, its a smooth process
- compression is in build due to the usage of FCM modules, this is seamless to the user but a prominent feature to be highlighted
- seamless data migration/copy across Flash array
- GUI should have better interface
IBM tech
- High availability
- Flash copy services
- Simple management
- High performance
- Fixability
- Stability
- Extend pool with a single disk
- Flash Array Performance
- 100%10.0
- Flash Array Integration
- 100%10.0
- Data Compression
- 100%10.0
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades
- 100%10.0
- Simplicity
- 100%10.0
- Power Savings
- 100%10.0
- it improve small and medium customer performance
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- SAP
- ESXI
- Exchange
- IBM Partner
- Resellers
- Partners
- Other vendors replacement
- Old storage system replacement
- Price
- Product Features
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budget
- online
- high available
- loadblance
- fix issues
- more performace
9200
Storwize V7000 robustness and seamless integration
- IT supports all the VMware Infrastructure we have.
- It's the backbone for our IBM's power business.
- We use it for our backup repository.
- Getting spares sometimes it's very expensive.
- Backup batteries sometimes have swell.
- If you don't have a support contract you're so out of luck.
- Flash Array Performance
- 100%10.0
- Flash Array Integration
- 80%8.0
- Data Compression
- 80%8.0
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades
- 70%7.0
- Simplicity
- 80%8.0
- Power Savings
- 100%10.0
- It's expensive but well worth it.
- The ROI is one its best perks.
- The learning curve could be annoying for some.
- Speed really is another perk in this case.
- Multi environment integration is something that I love about it.
- IBM FlashSystem 5000 (formerly Storwize V5000E), Pure Storage FlashArray and HPE StoreEasy 1000 Storage
- Virtual infrastructure.
- LPAR Storage.
- Replication caching storage.
- Replication using little flash arrays with Veeam.
- Speeding up virtual infra.
- Ease of use from the previous generation (V7000).
- We're in ways of expanding it for more bulk storage.
- Cloud offline backup.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
IBM FlashSystem 7200 (formerly Storwize V7000) - a good storage alternative to midsize enterprises
- Good performance
- Ease of management and automated reporting features
- Security and policy usage
- Maintenance is not cheap
- Implementation could be difficult
- Comes in block
- Flash Array Performance
- 80%8.0
- Flash Array Integration
- 80%8.0
- Data Compression
- 90%9.0
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades
- 90%9.0
- Simplicity
- 80%8.0
- Power Savings
- 90%9.0
- V7000 has a good ROI.
- Scaling could be expensive with a change need in hardware
- Maintenance agreements, although costly, gives you good quality of service by IBM
- File system storage
- Backup storage
- Application storage
- Scaling to the maximum capacity with compression
- Cloud integration could be a good next step