IBM Storage FlashSystem made a huge performance impact on our VDIs

We originally started using IBM Storage FlashSystem for our VDIs. Our initial VDI storage we replaced with IBM Storage FlashSystem lacked the speed we needed to have the local computer feel applied to our VDIs. The IBM Storage FlashSystem keeps our storage latency extremely low making our users experience within their VDIs so much better. The difference was night and day. The IBM Storage FlashSystem was easy to manage and scale up all with great redundancy. We then made the decision to purchase additional IBM Storage FlashSystem for our production file storage and remote backup solution. The replication policies are very easy to setup and maintain. In order to save time and make the transition from our old file server storage to the new IBM units, we copied all the files locally and then moved the DR replication to our offsite and started the sync. All went as expected. As far as maintenance, firmware updates are easily applied and can be done without any downtime.

I find the IBM Storage FlashSystems are compact which can cut down on rack space used, the redundancy that's built into the IBM Storage FlashSystems are very reassuring, the GUI is very user friendly, and while we haven't needed to utilize IBM Storage FlashSystem support much since we've had our systems in place, the few times we utilized their help they were VERY helpful and dug into the issue to help resolve it as quickly as possible. But the most impressive and what is our most valuable asset of IBM Storage FlashSystem is the speeds.

IBM Storage FlashSystem Grid is one of the items we've yet to implement but very excited about. This will give us greater scalability and is a key factor we look for as our company is growing at a high rate. While we were able to cluster our previous storage system, it was a very clunky process and we chose not to deal with it at the time.