The V7000 is a Work Horse with Great Features available at a price and Great customer support, also at a price.
December 08, 2020
The V7000 is a Work Horse with Great Features available at a price and Great customer support, also at a price.
Score 6 out of 10
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Modules Used
- IBM Flashsystem 7200
Overall Satisfaction with IBM FlashSystem
The IBM [FlashSystem V7200 (formerly Storwize V7000)] is being used across the whole organization. It originally provided storage for the VM's that ran our ERP system but now hosts our QA and Development environments. It has been a workhorse and hasn't had any significant performance or reliability problems. Drives have failed more recently but mostly due to age.
- The phone home system is great, if there is a drive failure a tech is out same day to replace(Dependent on support Level)
- Firmware upgrades while we never did during work hours could have been done during work hours, had one issue with a firware upgrade but the system remained operable and the bricked controller was replaced the next day.
- The spare drive system hasn't failed me so far. It will take the spare put it in an array and make the replacement drive the spare.
- The V7000 used old raid systems this could be fixed and use a smarter redundancy.
- Features like dedupe and compression cost extra, this is not so standard anymore.
- Maintenance is expensive and really tries to push you to buy new.
- Long term this is an expensive solution. Maintenance becomes unbearable compared to buying new. 12-16k a year, when a replacement with more features and initial 3 yr maint is 35k. Doesn't make much sense to me.
We use HP Nimble as our primary storage currently and have relegated the V7000 to run Dev and QA workloads. The Nimble is faster, more affordable and has service that rivals that of IBM. They also have an evergreen support model which IBM does not. This allows the Controller to be swapped as long as the Chasis is in support.