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What is IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)?
IBM Storwize is a family of recognized all-flash and hybrid storage solutions designed to support the virtualization needs and application workloads of mid-sized enterprises.
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What is IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)?
The IBM Storwize family, now part of the FlashSystems family, is designed to meet the
storage requirements of businesses with entry to mid-sized application
workloads who need all the features and capabilities demanded in
business-critical environments but within constrained budgets. Members of the
Storwize family deliver hybrid flash capability at a low entry price whereas
others offer high performance end-to-end NVMe including NVMe flash drives and
support for NVMe over Fibre Channel fabrics. Many Storwize systems include
unique IBM FlashCore Modules with ultra-low latency, and compression and FIPS
140-2 encryption, delivered without impact to performance.
Offered in a wide range of storage systems, the IBM Storwize family delivers sophisticated capabilities that are easy to deploy and easy to manage thanks to its IBM Spectrum Virtualize software. These capabilities include non-disruptive data migration from existing storage, comprehensive data reduction to help reduce costs, six-nines availability to meet the most demanding business needs, easy scalability, and hybrid cloud capability when used with IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud. All Storwize systems are enhanced with cloud-based IBM Storage Insights that helps monitor health, status, and performance, and offers proactive recommendations. When problems occur, Storage Insights helps streamline obtaining support.
Offered in a wide range of storage systems, the IBM Storwize family delivers sophisticated capabilities that are easy to deploy and easy to manage thanks to its IBM Spectrum Virtualize software. These capabilities include non-disruptive data migration from existing storage, comprehensive data reduction to help reduce costs, six-nines availability to meet the most demanding business needs, easy scalability, and hybrid cloud capability when used with IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud. All Storwize systems are enhanced with cloud-based IBM Storage Insights that helps monitor health, status, and performance, and offers proactive recommendations. When problems occur, Storage Insights helps streamline obtaining support.
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Features
- Supported: Get faster insights with NVMe acceleration
- Supported: Improve your business agility with enterprise-class storage capability
- Supported: Transform the economics of data storage using data reduction technologies
- Supported: Leverage AI to optimize configurations and streamline issue resolution
- Supported: Complement on-premises storage of all types with hybrid multicloud capability
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IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Competitors
- Dell Unity XT Unified Storage
- HPE Nimble Storage
- HPE 3PAR StoreServ
- Dell PowerScale
- EMC VNX (Discontinued)
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
IBM Storwize is a family of recognized all-flash and hybrid storage solutions designed to support the virtualization needs and application workloads of mid-sized enterprises.
Dell Unity XT Unified Storage, HPE Nimble Storage, and HPE 3PAR StoreServ are common alternatives for IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems).
The most common users of IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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April 18, 2022
Affordable Storage
IBM Storwize was used to maintain the application data backup and disk allocation in AIX servers environments. We have resolved our data backup problems in our testing and development environments.
- IBM Storwize is easy to set up and configure. This storage provides lots of easy features to use in daily operations like interface, disk provision, data backup and restore, etc.
- Stability with dual controller
- We faced few issues with vendor support when we faced one major issue with this storage
April 15, 2022
IBM Storwize Review
IBM Storwize we used in our DR site for AIX and Linux environments servers to maintain the data. IBM Storwize provides an easy user interface and many other key features like disk provision, updates, data security, etc which help to manage this storage in a smooth way.
- IBM Storwize provides a simple way to do the Disk provision and map to Unix servers.
- IBM Storwize provides the security and enough storage space for user data.
- IBM Storwize provides the fast data IO processing speed.
- Some time we don't get the error Monitoring alerts.
- This storage is not really capable to manage our critical server data.
April 11, 2022
IBM Storewize- Review
IBM Storewize is used in our business to store and manage heavy data and applications. This system is very fast and has a good efficiency in this system used in our organization for AI and hybrid cloud storage. This product has many features such as it is scalable and can easily access the data at a lower cost. So this is best for our organization.
- Data accessibility is good
- Provide Security to our data
- Storage is enough
- Need some Improvisation in data backup facility
- Not always but sometime might be problem in disk scanning
February 22, 2022
IBM Storwize - Review
We are using IBM Storwize for on-premise solution, Cloud, VMware and IBM i-series. We are also using this product for backup as well as.
This system provides high available data storage.
This system provides high available data storage.
- High Availability
- Backup solution
- Easy to setup and configuration
- Redundant controllers
- some time face the issue with disk scaning
- We also face some issue with backend support during the major issue
February 03, 2022
My Storwize Experience
Utilizing Storwize allows us to provision our hardware quickly and efficiently. The interface feels familiar while giving you a more detailed view of the different components. From the initial setup to applying new storage to a host or hosts, to optimizing your IOPS by looking over the utilization. Big data, database, or archiving with the larger units, we utilize Storwize throughout many application functions or historical profiles. Small office file shares or medium-sized to large-sized deployments. Mirror your data as this is more and more of a requirement for businesses to run.
- Better at fault tolerance.
- Automated alerting so I know there’s an issue.
- Built to last.
- Easy to expand.
- Update the dashboard.
- Centralization is missing if you have many devices.
We use a Storwize V7000 for backups and testing of copy services. It addresses the problem of recovering from a failure of our primary storage systems.
- Low cost
- High capacity
- Good for backups
- Would benefit from internal flash
- Could use more streamlined port assignments
May 13, 2019
Large savings for midsize workloads
We use IBM Storwize virtualized products to leverage storage efficiency practices to scale our storage to business demands. Data is endlessly growing, and being able to use virtualized products we can somewhat manage growth. We use multiple Storwize V7000 and V5000 devices behind SVC. The SVC allows us to seamlessly move data between storage devices without issues. Specifically, the V7k V5k, and as well as the V9Ks allow us to provision storage and over-allocate storage when workloads are not meeting the requests from the users.
- Data processing and IO. The Storwize devices are very resilient in how they process data and do not have a drop in IO when errors occur (common errors such as disk failures and lost paths).
- Storage efficiency management. We are able to use multiple efficiency techniques such as thin provisioning and data reduction to reduce our budget footprint.
- Easy to use interfaces. Creating a volume and mapping to a host has proven to be a very easy process and makes onboarding less stressful for our team.
- Support could use some improvement when there are major issues. Call home reaches level 1 support, but each error should probably reach a different team when a more major event occurs.
- There is a bit of confusion surrounding data reduction pools and leveraging DRP or using FCM. This may be confusion on my part, not necessarily the Storwize product.
May 13, 2019
IBM Storwize, IBM's resilient product
IBM Storwize is used by the entire organization. It is normally used for some databases with medium transactions and file saving as document management.
- IBM Storwize, thanks to its IBM Spectrum Virtualize base software, is able to perform well-executed functions such as storage to storage replication, easy tier, flash copy and the most interesting one that I have seen operating in our clients is the capacity for real-time compression.
- We have had several clients with real-time compression component, thanks to the great benefits it offers us in saving space in volumes, rack space, energy saving, among others.
- Real-time compression on a V7000 with its compression accelerators not only has the ability to compress data volumes but also gives us better performance.
- I would like them to improve the real-time compression in the V5030 family, since when compressing the data it takes processor resources from the controllers, degrading the performance at the time of compression.
May 02, 2019
I love how easy IBM Storwize is in my daily job
We use Storwize storage products for fast flash storage access for hosting of customers' data, but also for internal use. Storwize products are in my opinion very easy to use, fast and a reliable storage solution. They are up to date with the newest flash technology, and that gives us an advantage in the industry.
- Easy to use GUI
- Fast performance
- Good value for monney
- Remote service built in, like EMC's ESRS
- Better and easier support page
- New data reduction features
May 01, 2019
Satisfied Storwize Business Partner!
Customers of mine deploy IBM Storwize systems for many different purposes of general information technology storage. Storwize is one of the most flexible and capable block storage devices in IT today, and one of IBM's most successful. It addresses issues of high-speed data storage and combines with software-defined virtualization.
- Software-defined virtualization based on a two-decade track record of SVC.
- Flexibility in device choices.
- Industry-leading replication over FC or IP.
- It would be nice, at some point, if new disks could be added to a pre-existing RAID array.
The IBM Storwize was originally purchased to consolidate DS5000 workloads. Hence we have refreshed the array and even grown it [to] add in a DR location. The GUI is super easy - even our manager can figure it out in times of need.
- Block Storage
- Storage Consolidation
- Easy to Use GUI
- Always room for Data Reduction Improvements (efficiency) without the overhead on the array
- Would love to see NVMe roadmap
April 30, 2019
A review of the v3700 in a small company.
We use a v3700 storage as the main storage for the entire company. Thanks to Thin Provisioning and Easy Tier I can look over provision volumes and be sure that my most used data will be on the fastest tier of storage. The performance, even being the smallest of the family, is a great bang for the buck and meets all our needs.
- Management Interface
- Easy Tier
- Migration support
- SCSI Unmap support (fixed in the new generation)
- Data Deduplication (Again, fixed in the new generation)
- Flashcopy interface, it's hard to understand at first.