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IBM System Storage DS8900F

IBM System Storage DS8900F
Formerly DS8000

Overview

What is IBM System Storage DS8900F?

IBM System Storage DS8900F is a line of storage appliances.

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Recent Reviews

Use of sharks

10 out of 10
May 10, 2019
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It is being used by my customers with iSeries, mainframe and open systems with a need for always on high availability for business …
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Product Details

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™.

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Frequently Asked Questions

IBM System Storage DS8900F is a line of storage appliances.

HPE Nimble Storage are common alternatives for IBM System Storage DS8900F.

The most common users of IBM System Storage DS8900F are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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May 01, 2019

New Storage for USAA

Timothy Choina | TrustRadius Reviewer
Timothy Choina
Sr. Database Administrator
USAA (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are replacing EMC storage with IBM storage. It's used company wide. Will be looking to implement FlashCopy for database backups.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Hopefully it will be well suited for all our storage needs. From a database perspective, we will need storage for all our DB2 and IMS data. We currently use DASD storage for our virtual tape (image copies) also.
Return on Investment
  • I do not know the cost. If it prevents future system wide outages, it will be a great ROI for our company.
Alternatives Considered
Not sure. I do DBA work, not storage. We use a lot of storage for DBA work but a different team does all storage maintenance.
Other Software Used
May 01, 2019

DS8K for my Enterprise

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for mainframe CKD based applications. There is unmatched synergy with IBM zSeries when compared to the competition, for example zHPF, SUPERPAV, zHyperLink, cache management and replication technologies. For distributed, the fact that Copy Services Manager comes with the box is a great move on IBMs part to provide replication capability no matter what the applicaiton. I think the DS8k is less suited for smaller distributed environments. I think product overlap with V9000 in this case.
Return on Investment
  • Ability to retain the machine past its depreciable life
  • Performance is steady as machine scales upward
  • LDAP Security setup not well documented
Alternatives Considered
Other vendors lack many of the mainframe functions provided by DS8k. SInce IBM is the most prominent maninframe vendor support is unmatched.
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