Project IT wit V7K Solutions
Modules Used
- IBM Flashsystem 7200
Overall Satisfaction with IBM FlashSystem
I use [IBM FlashSystem] V7000 as [a] storage backbone of all my midrange infrastructural projects, in VMWare area as in Power Area (I4B and IBM AIX). Most of [the] customers I followed are collocated in small/medium enterprises (100-1000 users). V7000 has simplified shared data architectures introducing virtualization concepts and easy-to-manage complex storage layers. One of most appreciated features is availability at all: data are core in Enterprise and it focuses on [the] robustness of data storage solution. V7000 was appreciated for its stability.
- Virtualization
- Avalaibility
- Performance
- Heavy user interface
- Poor patch management
- Easy tier management
- Investment protection (via old storage reactivation)
- Skill reduction for first level management
- Consolidation on unique platform several storage needs
- IBM FlashSystem 7200
Online hardware compression and decompression (AE3 models) surely have the main interest of low budget capable customers, the word is "to have more space spending less". All this with no impact on performance, apparently. It provides also a rich set of software-defined storage (SDS) features, including data reduction and de-duplication, dynamic tiering, thin-provisioning, snapshots, cloning, replication, data copy services, and IBM HyperSwapfi for high availability (HA). Scale-out and scale-up configurations further enhance capacity and throughput for better availability.