Perferct for flexible virtual environments as platform for data security.
August 10, 2021

Perferct for flexible virtual environments as platform for data security.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Modules Used

  • IBM Flashsystem 5000

Overall Satisfaction with IBM FlashSystem

We have used IBM FlashSystem 5000 as storage device for our data protection solution provided by a third-party vendor. It was used in a high-availability environment for backup of all servers and some of the client systems in our company. With the speed of a flash array behind a data protection solution, we have gained a lot of speed and flexibility when it comes to restoring business-critical applications and data.
  • Flexible storage space allocation
  • High availability
  • High-performance storage
  • Flexible expansion options
  • Management interface is not 100% self-explanatory
  • With a solution from a well-known vendor, we had the support that we have sought
  • With IBM FlashSystem 5000, you have high performance storage that is capable of running VMs without performance issues
As IBM FlashSystem 5000 array was combined in a package with the data protection solution, there was not an option to choose and compare only the flash storage array with other vendors. But as IBM is well known on the market, there was not really the need to do this.

IBM FlashSystem 5000 can be used for a wide range of use cases--in our case, as high availability and high speed storage for a virtual environment backup and disaster recovery solution. With flash-based storage and a powerful backup/restore solution, we are today able to restore larger VMs within minutes (running temporarily on IBM flash storage). When it comes to rack space and power consumption planing for the installation of this flash system, you need to do proper planing.

IBM Storage FlashSystem Feature Ratings

Flash Array Performance
10
Flash Array Integration
10
Data Compression
10
Non-Intrusive Upgrades
10
Simplicity
7