Overall Satisfaction with IBM FlashSystem
It is the back-end storage of svc. It provides the best performance and with inbuilt disk compression provides more usable storage almost double the raw capacity.
- Performance
- Compression
- Availability
- Mix SAS and flash drives in one enclosure.
- Deduplication
- Encryption
- Seamless migration tools to migrate from old v7000 to fs7200.
- More usable storage with compression.
- Faster performance for mission critical applications.
- Mix of storage tier disk in one storage.
- Larger disk capacity and compression can fit in the storage in just 2 spaces in one rack.
- Scalability and seamless expansion of storage.
It is the best back-end storage for IBM spectrum virtualization. IBM FlashSystem 7200 offloads the compression from SVC and does it internally on the disk drives with flash core modules.