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IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)

IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)

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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)?

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.

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) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Ease of Use: Reviewers have consistently found IBM Storwize easy to set up and configure, simplifying tasks such as disk provision and mapping to servers. The interfaces are user-friendly, making processes like creating volumes straightforward.

Reliability and Stability: Users appreciate the stability of IBM Storwize, particularly with dual controllers that ensure data accessibility and security. Its fault tolerance features, including automated alerting for issue detection, have been praised by many reviewers.

Performance Efficiency: Users have highlighted the fast data IO processing speed of IBM Storwize, making it efficient for daily operations. They also value its resilient data processing capabilities and storage efficiency management techniques like thin provisioning and real-time compression.

Vendor Support Issues: Users have expressed frustration with vendor support, especially during critical situations such as major problems with the storage system.

Error Monitoring Alerts Difficulty: Some reviewers have highlighted challenges in receiving error monitoring alerts, indicating a need for improvement in this area.

Inadequate Storage System for Critical Data: The storage system has been deemed insufficient for effectively managing critical server data by some users.

Backend Support and Disk Scanning Problems: Users reported facing issues with disk scanning and backend support, particularly during major incidents, suggesting the need for enhancements in these areas.

Dashboard and Alert Improvements Needed: There is a call for improvements in the dashboard, alerts, monitoring features, and real-time compression to enhance user experience and functionality.

Reviews

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Affordable Storage

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 18, 2022
UK
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
6 years of experience
  • 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

IBM Storwize Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 15, 2022
BS
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
6 years of experience
  • 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.

IBM Storewize- Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 11, 2022
MK
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
4 years of experience
  • Data accessibility is good
  • Provide Security to our data
  • Storage is enough

IBM Storwize - Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 22, 2022
SS
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
6 years of experience
  • High Availability
  • Backup solution
  • Easy to setup and configuration
  • Redundant controllers

My Storwize Experience

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 03, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
4 years of experience
  • Better at fault tolerance.
  • Automated alerting so I know there’s an issue.
  • Built to last.
  • Easy to expand.

Large savings for midsize workloads

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 13, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
4 years of experience
  • 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.

IBM Storwize, IBM's resilient product

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 13, 2019
fg
Vetted Review
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
5 years of experience
  • 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.

Storwize made a great replacment to 3PAR

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 02, 2019
PS
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
5 years of experience
  • The price of the Storwize has been quite reasonable
  • Support is great!
  • With Storwize any GUI commands that run have their CLI counterpart recorded on the same screen which is great for scripting.
  • We can take our legacy storage and represent it behind the storwize.

Satisfied Storwize Business Partner!

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 01, 2019
RB
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
10 years of experience
  • Software-defined virtualization based on a two-decade track record of SVC.
  • Flexibility in device choices.
  • Industry-leading replication over FC or IP.

My review of IBM Storwize 2019

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 01, 2019
BR
Vetted Review
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
8 years of experience
  • Flexible Configurations and Features that are relevant to clients who need an array for a specific use case or a mixed workload at the right price
  • Simple GUI and Integration of the functions into the most widely used hypervisors for administrators of all types
  • Space Efficiency Technologies
  • Storage Insights to assist the administrator do their job

So far so good

Rating: 7 out of 10
April 30, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
5 years of experience
  • Ease of use
  • Visually appealing
  • Fast
  • Well thought out
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