A review of the v3700 in a small company.
April 30, 2019

A review of the v3700 in a small company.

Roberto Etcheverry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Storwize

We use a v3700 storage as the main storage for the entire company. Thanks to Thin Provisioning and Easy Tier I can look over provision volumes and be sure that my most used data will be on the fastest tier of storage. The performance, even being the smallest of the family, is a great bang for the buck and meets all our needs.
  • Management Interface
  • Easy Tier
  • Migration support
  • SCSI Unmap support (fixed in the new generation)
  • Data Deduplication (Again, fixed in the new generation)
  • Flashcopy interface, it's hard to understand at first.
  • Great ROI.
  • Needs to be replaced with the new generation due to features not implemented in the current gen.
We used the old DS4xxxx series of storages and have worked with most brands of storage and I will always pick Storwize over the rest.
Storwize products are well suited to most scenarios, it's features adapt to most workloads seamlessly. Only if one needs the least latency between data and the server and is willing to forego all the features the Storwize stack brings, just in that case something like the FS900 might be better suited.