IBM FlashSystem 5K with no catchy wordplay
Modules Used
- IBM Flashsystem 5000
Overall Satisfaction with IBM FlashSystem
We have mainly two different environments, one for general fileserver use and one for SAP NW. We are using replication in both environment for 100km. All the boxes are populated with 24 pcs of FlashCore modules, and we are using DRAID6 with legacy pool. The compression ratio is 1.5 in the fileserver and 2.8 in the SAP environment. The connection between the sites are limited so we are using Metro Mirror and Global Mirror with change volumes in parallel. The host OSes are mainly ESXi, Windows, Linux, and AIX. The average performance of the systems like 20k iops with <1ms latency @2000MiB/s.
- Easy and simple management both GUI and CLI
- Straight and easy configuration
- Usable TiB / rack unit ratio can be quite high
- Easy reporting with Storage Insights
- The GUI is less complete than CLI (by design)
- Less management effort
- Easy migration to/from
- Set it and forget it type of operation is welcome