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Our customers use the product for various purposes from mainframe to open systems uses.
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What is IBM System Storage DS8900F?
IBM System Storage DS8900F is a line of storage appliances.
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What is IBM System Storage DS8900F?
IBM System Storage DS8900F is a family of all-flash data systems designed to meet a wide variety of workloads for different business needs through mission-critical acceleration, ultra-low application response times, uncompromising availability and unparalleled integration with IBM Z® and IBM Power Systems™.
IBM System Storage DS8900F Competitors
- HPE Nimble Storage
- Pure Storage Flash arrays
- Dell EMC PowerMax
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IBM System Storage DS8900F is a line of storage appliances.
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Our customers use the product for various purposes from mainframe to open systems uses.
- The IBM DS8000 family is the leading, most-trusted platform for IBM mainframe
- The IBM DS8000 family is the leading, most-trusted platform for IBM i.
- The IBM DS8000 family has time-proven hardware and software contributing to unparalleled availability.
- The DS8000 family still lacks deduplication and compression algorithms.
- For best results on replication enablement, optional Copy Services Manager is suggested.
May 13, 2019
IBM System Storage DS8000 User Review
IBM System Storage DS8000 is used for both z/OS and z/VM to store all back end data and for all online and mobile servers.
- It's very good at mirroring the data between our 2 sites (Production and DR).
- Its high availability means that we've never had an outage the entire time we've been using it.
- Management is easy through the HMC.
- Since the DS8000 can use SMS to now archive HSM data directly to the TS7700, maybe add an interface to the tape system?
May 10, 2019
Use of sharks
It is being used by my customers with iSeries, mainframe and open systems with a need for always on high availability for business critical applications.
- Mainframe integration
- iSeries native attachment
- Multi-site replication
- Smaller high capacity drives
- USB encryption
May 03, 2019
DS8882F - CKD Storage in a Manageable Footprint
We use our DS8882F for our mainframe infrastructure across the whole organization. It addresses the business problem of providing CKD storage in a rack mounted system that can fit in our data center. Its all-flash configuration enables us to run mainframe workloads with the lowest possible latency, helping us establish a testing environment for the setups we implement at other clients.
- Copy Services
- Disaster Recovery
- High throughput
- I have seen the GUI say that the storage facility is inaccessible, even when getting a clean health check from IBM. Typically rebooting the HMC fixes this.
- When decommissioning a box, you cannot delete arrays until ranks are done formatting. This adds a lot of time to the decomm process
- IO ports do not have a topology by default
May 01, 2019
New Storage for USAA
We are replacing EMC storage with IBM storage. It's used company wide. Will be looking to implement FlashCopy for database backups.
- Hopefully it won't have the internal problems like EMC that caused a major data issue last year.
- I'm too new to have a good comparison of how this storage works.
- Unknown.
May 01, 2019
DS8K for my Enterprise
We use IBM DS8000 to support all of our mortgage servicing customers on the mainframe. The DS8K was chosen for its performance, reliability and synergy with IBM zSeries. The DS8k is also important in reducing risk. The capabilities in replication and disaster recovery are unmatched in the industry and allow us to utilize complimentary technologies such as GDPS for resiliency.
- Performance, the DS8k has provided excellent levels of service levels. I/O response time is no longer a concern.
- Scalability - as we grow the platform, performance has been steady.
- Replication - copy services capabilites are vast and ensure data integrity and consistency.
- Ease of use, the latest GUIs have vastly improved over the last 5+ years. The GUI is a great learning tool for support teams not familiar with the DS8k.
- Ability to use advanced features on HMC (for customers).
- Provide better integration with GDPS - for example GDPS GUI hosted on DS8k HMC
- Allow customers to install firmware
May 01, 2019
DS8000 value
We use the DS8000 at many of our customers. I have several of them installed at customers who work in financial markets. Typically, I see it used in Mainframe only environments, due to the relative cost of the DS8k compared to the variety of platforms available for open systems environments. However, even now I have some customers who have open systems environments connected to DS8000 when it is an extremely high priority environment that cannot afford downtime.
Primarily I see it used for FICON attachment. The reason for that is pretty simple -- IBM works very closely between their storage and z groups to maintain "synergy". But it's also just a rock solid highly available platform that's become more reliable with time.
Additionally, when it comes to business continuity functions it can be pretty incredible. Its Global Mirror function particularly impresses me. It's able to deal with exceptionally high latency and still deliver single-digit seconds of RPO (in extreme cases this might require development to use "pokeables"). When combined with Copy Services Manager or GDPS, it really brings disaster recovery functions to a very usable level for the enterprise.
Primarily I see it used for FICON attachment. The reason for that is pretty simple -- IBM works very closely between their storage and z groups to maintain "synergy". But it's also just a rock solid highly available platform that's become more reliable with time.
Additionally, when it comes to business continuity functions it can be pretty incredible. Its Global Mirror function particularly impresses me. It's able to deal with exceptionally high latency and still deliver single-digit seconds of RPO (in extreme cases this might require development to use "pokeables"). When combined with Copy Services Manager or GDPS, it really brings disaster recovery functions to a very usable level for the enterprise.
- Remote Copy -- The DS8k has decades of excellent code built to handle the most demanding environments for mainframe or open systems and can be combined with automation solutions like GDPS or Copy Services Manager
- Reliability and Availability -- This is the platform that gets used for the most demanding environments, even when FICON attachment isn't required
- Continued enhancement -- IBM continues to put resources into the DS8k and the platform has advanced with the technology from z and power
- Mainframe synergy -- Poughkeepsie communicates and works very closely with the DS8k developers
- Data Reduction -- DS8k doesn't do any. If you're running a mainframe with pervasive encryption turned on, that's not an issue but it could be for many distributed environments
- FlashCopy -- based on Copy on Write. It works well, but it would be nice to see it move to something like Redirect on Write
- Expense -- What can I say? It is more expensive than most people in an open systems environment are willing to pay when compared with offerings that don't have FICON
May 01, 2019
DS8000 Disaster Recovery
DS8000 provides the reliability for mission critical applications and un-surpassed speed. It allows our DB2 and IMS systems to run without interruption with the speed needed to meet customer expectations. By providing a highly available system combined with disaster recovery, we never worry about missing a sale.
- Disaster Recovery
- Response Time
- HIgh Availability
- Configuration menus
April 30, 2019
DS8000 A great Storage tool with a very flexible GUI
We uss DS8000 for our storage solution in our IT department. It's very flexible for adding new LUNs to our system and works very well as well with our SVC solution that we have.
- Very flexible with SVC or standalone
- Very reliable - never goes down
- Not as fast as our flash system
February 14, 2019
Store data for days on DS8800 series
We use the DB8886 to house our system z data. This meets our business needs by providing fast and secure data storage.
- Allows us to use GDPS for our disaster recovery solution. This is a strength because it enables us to meet our DR requirements.
- Allows us to have encryption of our data at rest. This is a strength because it enables us to meet our security requirements.
- Allows us to have a stable and reliable disk storage. This is a strength because it enables us to meet our data availability requirements.
- The hardest thing for us is the storage server software for configuring the storage. We find that the previous GUI interface is easier to use.
- Being able to utilize some of the GDPS functions that need all flash to use.
- The order process could be improved by telling the customer which additional cables/network requirements are needed.