Item: IBM Storage FlashSystem
Rating: 9
Author: Junaid Khalid

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM FlashSystem 7200 is configured as tier 0 in our production environment and is providing for the high-performance requirements for the OLTP systems. All our boot volumes are also configured on this system for a robust system boot. This helps us to keep the latency under 1 millisecond for our most critical workloads.

Pros and Cons

provides the end to end NVMe, that combined with our NVMe enabled hosts and SAN directors to provide amazing performance
Storage Class memory also adds to the ultralow latency
the immutable copy features help us to keep a golden copy at all times to protect against the cyber attacks

Data Reduction pools are handy, but they lack the support for vvols
SAN BOOT is not supported for certain AIX versions when connected using the NVME/FC protocol
Maintenance can be made easier
TCO can be brought down as compared to competition

Return on Investment

Sub millisecond latency with compression
Less foot print and lower power consumption
Reasonable scalability and Rolling upgrades with no downtime

Likelihood to Recommend

In our case, the IBM Flash System 7200 offers high performance and adds storage optimizations along with compression features, and is configured behind svc as a Tier0 high-performance device. The Fiber Channel and NVMe allow us to implement a large number of disk arms, which leads to higher performance with more spindles. Its AI is the foremost imperative, as the choices made are really true and more proficient at work. IBM Flash System 7200 is well suited in medium-sized organizations which have the need to replicate and store a large amount of data with or even without cloud capabilities.

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