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IBM Storage FlashSystem

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What is IBM Storage FlashSystem?

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.

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Enterprise Flash Array Storage

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What is IBM Storage FlashSystem?

Organizations today are expected to run more workloads than their current IT infrastructure can support. As a result, they are forced to make complicated choices about which workloads to run or buy additional purpose-built hardware; this leads to a continual bloat of IT infrastructure, inefficient use of floorspace, and increased power and cooling costs. Businesses are in need of enterprise-grade storage with flexible deployment options and economics that fit any IT budget.


IBM Storage FlashSystem is an all-flash storage array that delivers almost 2 PB of effective capacity per single rack unit. Benefits include workload consolidation, a smaller physical footprint requiring less rack space, and lower energy usage which improves power and cooling costs. Additionally, IBM’s all-flash array features fast data delivery, real-time threat detection, and recovery response rates. Unlike traditional storage arrays that use precious compute cycles on data services, IBM Storage FlashSystem is engineered with durable FlashCore Module all NVMe drives. This computational storage technology offloads data services from the array, keeping functions such as compression, encryption, data deduplication, and ransomware attack pattern analysis closer to the data thereby allowing the IBM Storage FlashSystem controller to focus on rapid data delivery.


IBM Storage FlashSystem is an all-flash array that delivers the following:

  • Safeguards data against breaches and cyberthreats with real-time threat detection identifying abnormal data patterns indicating potential cyberthreats in less than a minute

  • Helps enterprises to achieve sustainability goals through efficiency that reduces costs and energy consumption

  • Integrates with critical systems utilizing comprehensive support for virtual infrastructure, containers, and cloud technologies to ensure compatibility across the IT environment

  • Engineered with NVMe technology that provides compression, encryption, and deduplication features without impacting performance

  • Can be deployed to manage critical business workloads such as databases, ERP systems, and SAP with microsecond response times, delivering rapid data delivery and performance for demanding applications

IBM Storage FlashSystem Features

Enterprise Flash Array Storage Features

  • Supported: Flash Array Performance
  • Supported: Flash Array Integration
  • Supported: Data Compression
  • Supported: Non-Intrusive Upgrades
  • Supported: Simplicity
  • Supported: Power Savings

IBM Storage FlashSystem Screenshots

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IBM Storage FlashSystem Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray, and Dell PowerMax NVMe are common alternatives for IBM Storage FlashSystem.

Reviewers rate Flash Array Performance highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of IBM Storage FlashSystem are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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.

Need for Improved User Interface: Users have expressed the need for an enhanced user interface to improve their overall experience with the product, such as a more intuitive design and easier navigation. For example, a cleaner layout could help users locate features more quickly. Upgrade and Patch Processes: Customers have suggested smoother upgrade and patch processes to streamline operations more effectively, reducing downtime during updates. This could involve automated update notifications or a simplified process for applying patches. Limitations in Storage Expansion Functionality: Some users have highlighted limitations in storage expansion functionality, indicating a desire for more flexibility when upgrading storage capacity, like support for additional storage options or easier scalability. Providing seamless integration with third-party storage solutions may address this concern.

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Easy , Fast , high performance storage for high demand IO applications

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 13, 2024
AS
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Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
7 years of experience
Flash storage is an ideal solution for environments demanding high input/output operations (I/O) and frequent read/write cycles. We successfully deploy this technology for a client's high-performance backup infrastructure, where it serves as the backend storage for multi-stream data writes, connected via a 100Gb network interface. There is also a Tiered based approach.

IBM Flash Storage Reliability

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 24, 2024
Verified User
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Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
1 year of experience
Data restore is very efficient. there are no instances of data corruption or missing data. Recovery is seamless.
Example is where we previously had calypso database crush, but this was recovered seamlessly with no issues using our P8

The Best of the Storage Systems Is IBM

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 23, 2024
pa
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Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
5 years of experience
IBM Storage FlashSystem has a good recovery though recovery depends on data size. It has always been our organizations preference over the Dell Storage Systems that we have. It hot swap capability also affords the comfort to change any of the components (CPU,Memory) when need be. The system hardly goes down, been with the organization for 7 years and the only time Our FlashSystem went down was when someone mistakenly pull the power cable in the datacentre.

IBM flash systems are a must for your enterprise.

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 11, 2024
Verified User
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Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
5 years of experience
IBM systems provide disaster recovery features such as replication. They are well suited to host IBM I workloads, are highly intensive in i/o, have excellent performance, and provide storage virtualization to use more storage systems in parallel. They could also present storage to VMware workloads. They have excellent compression and data reduction ratios, and their GUI is easy to manage.

IBM Storage FlashSystem - Modern file storage for education

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 11, 2024
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IBM Storage FlashSystem
2 years of experience
We found IBM Storage FlashSystem to be well suited to our virtualization data. No other platform that we've used delivered the ease of use and speed that we experienced.
Migrating and building new systems are particularly speedy and also maintaining them is breeze once you get your head around the basics. The confidence in immutability is greatly appreciated to help protect the integrity our our data.

IBM Storage FlashSystem best price performance storage for Open Systems & IBM I Storage

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 11, 2024
KT
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
10 years of experience
IBM Storage FlashSystem is a great fit for IBM I series external storage, just account for the 11% overhead for 520-Byte sectors for the IBM I. Small to medium enterprises are easily supported in the low end FS5200 while mid-range customers are supported via the FS7300.
High end enterprise customers and workloads are a great fit in the FS9500.
The small FS5045 are great for Edge scenarios. I have yet to find a niche for the IBM Storage FlashSystem supporting Internet of Things (IoT) but I continue to look!

Give performance and security to your business with IBM FlashSystems

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 23, 2024
AC
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Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
3 years of experience
IBM Storage FlashSystem is the best solution for mission-critical environments, where high availability and performance are non-negotiable. It is a solid product, designed to work without stops and at maximum performance.
On the other hand, it is not the best solution for low-budget projects. It is a product of excellence and the price is accordingly.

Real ultra-low latency storage for everyone

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 02, 2023
BS
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
2 years of experience
IBM Storage FlashSystem helps us to save lot of time in job executions that involve complex processing. The hybrid cloud tools make the replication and migration easier and convenient. The management interface is awesome and it is convenient for storage management and administration which helps as lot for cost optimization as well as performance optimization. The storage repository is able to manage Corporate workload with high performance without any fuss.

The perfect entry level hybrid storage: IBM FlashSystem

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 25, 2023
CY
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
2 years of experience
There are enough models to fit the sizing of your business. This idea allows customers to find the perfect fit for their storage needs all through IBM. If you are looking for fast and efficient storage then flashsystem is perfect. Being not entirely on the cloud, at the very least a server closet will be required to host the box itself.

IBM Storage FlashSystem - try it

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 25, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
5 years of experience
I think the device is very well designed to be managed in any kind of organisation. It provides a reliable hardware that ensures that most of the functionality are well executed. In my experience, you can trust that the device we'll keep all data in perfect conditions and that you can access it anytime on anywhere. The price of the solution is also very important to be considered as it it is adapted to small and medium sized companies.

Easy to handle, scalable and performance driven platform for various use cases.

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 25, 2023
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Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
2 years of experience
When it comes to the question of a reliable, fast, stable, and scalable flash storage system, the IBM Storage flash system is clearly an option you should look at. It's easy to install, to handle, to administrate, and to handle in general. Also, when it comes to support-related questions, you will always have good people being able to help you.

IBM Storage FlashSystem is a soldi product at a great pricepoint for SMB high end storage needs.

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 23, 2023
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IBM Storage FlashSystem
1 year of experience
IBM Storage FlashSystem is very well suited for a small or medium business that does not want to compromise storage performance. Pricing is excellent and transparent on the website. The option to have 8 16Gb FC connectors allows you to forgo expensive and complicated SAN switches if your host count is low enough. Fewer components make the infrastructure more reliable.

Reliable and cost effective Flash of IBM

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 19, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
2 years of experience
Well suited: 1. High-end applications, especially in banking or core oil-related applications where latency is the key in delivering optimal results 2. It addresses the needs of [a] large footprint in the datacenter, even an SME can manage the physical capacity in a limited IT space. Less appropriate: 1. There should be a cost-effective version of Flash in [the] IBM portfolio, which helps SMB to consider/opt within their budget. 2. Marketing, as the product has not been widely marketed by IBM. This is one of the areas which needs improvement.

I blindly trust IBM

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 11, 2023
One of the most important scenarios for the use of IBM Flashsystems is the possibility of virtualizing other Storage, this allows us to use equipment that we have not been using perhaps for years and now we can virtualize and use as backup repositories or evidence. A scenario in which visualization can also be used is if we have a storage that does not have some functionality that is only available in a higher-end storage, we can virtualize it and therefore it would inherit all the functionality, I will use this when virtualize an old storage under an IBM Flashsystem 7200 to use this old storage as a repository for immutable copies that are only available on storage like the 7200

FlashSystem 7200 review

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 25, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
10 years of experience
Well suited when performance and resiliency is important to the organization.
Less appropriate for archiving purpose, lower priority system usage

high-performance system over fibre channel.

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 07, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
IBM Storage FlashSystem
1 year of experience
We've been using this software in our projects for the past six months to manage a sizable workload and provide timely business outcomes for a crucial production database. The IBM FlashSystem 7200, which offers good performance and compression, has so far produced remarkable results. Our customers are overjoyed with the result and performance of this product.

Best for midsize workloads

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 27, 2022
This storage is best suited for medium to high workloads for full allocated volumes. Compression and dedupe features will help only if there are low sets of transactions. Performance is highly affected when using global mirror if there is a high number of IOPS.

Over fibre channel, high-performance system

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 28, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
1 year of experience
For the past six months, we've been utilising this software in our projects to manage a significant workload and deliver quick business results for a key production database. As of now, we've had excellent results with the IBM FlashSystem 7200, which provides good performance as well as compression. The outcome and performance of this product have left our clients completely happy.

IBM FlashSystem 5000--the services have been excellent

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 04, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
1 year of experience
It requires quick memory to process and execute an enormous number of exchanges in a short measure of time while keeping up with high help accessibility for end clients. Under one rooftop, IBM Flash System 5000 gives dependability, superior execution, and adaptability.

It's Reliable and Easy to Use

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 21, 2022
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Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
1 year of experience
We've been using this product in our projects for the last six months to manage a heavy workload and get quick business results for the critical production database. As of now, we have had excellent results with the IBM FlashSystem 7200, which provides high performance as well as compression capabilities. Our clients are completely satisfied with the outcome and performance of this product.

Deliver the greatest storage options as well as a high level of performance.

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 23, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
1 year of experience
We've been using this solution in our projects for the last six months to manage a huge workload and generate quick business results for a vital production database. We now have a positive experience with IBM Flash System 7200, which provides good performance as well as compression capabilities. Our customers are really pleased with the outcome and performance of this product.

One of the best and low end flash machine that one can rely upon

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 19, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
1 year of experience
It is greater dependable, its precision is phenomenal, and its overall output is world-class. It may be the maximum aggressive of all of the digital strength structures, and its connectivity seems to be sufficient. It is likewise on hand at a low fee, but having this many structures with better performance at a decreased fee is sufficient. A minor factor to word is that during a small [percentage] of cases, it can turn out to be caught because of immoderate use, which includes stressed paintings, inflicting paintings disruption.
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