We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and IBM XIV based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"One of the most valuable features is that it's very easy to use and configure. It used to be more difficult, but now it's almost flawless."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"The speed, performance, and stability are the best features of IBM FlashSystem."
"The performance is very good and we use this product to enhance our core system."
"The solution is very easy to configure and use."
"The solution allows for easy migrations from previous products or vendors via its embedded storage virtualization function."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the deduplication, because the nature of the data that we are using in our current environment, has a lot of replicated data."
"Installation is amazingly easy."
"The performance and robustness of the systems are very good."
"Hands down, this is the easiest storage platform on the market to manage."
"Very easy to produce reporting data (Snaps). Very easy and fast for provisioning devices and Remote mirroring."
"IBM XIV's most valuable features are NVME, especially when it comes to de-duplication, compression, and responsiveness."
"As it spreads, a chuck of 1MB across the board means using all available spindles on the backend."
"The technical support in my region is satisfactory but it could improve. Support is very important for customers and downtime is very critical for us. We would like onsite or complete technical support which can help us to minimize our downtime or if problems occur."
"The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"We use some open-source tools for monitoring, such as Grafana and it should be bundled along with IBM FlashSystem."
"IBM could do more marketing and improve brand awareness. I had never heard of this product until a colleague told me about it. FlashSystem could add a few features, but it would probably increase the price. For example, Pure Storage offers instant snapshotting and partitioning. That would be nice to have, but I think the cost would go up."
"It could be easier to implement."
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"The solution is not easy to use and could improve."
"Replication features need improvement. Currently, they are there in the product, but I'm not sure as to how it works exactly."
"I would rather have a web GUI served directly from the unit, and a CLI accessible directly through SSH."
"The change form synchronous mirroring to asynchronous (and vice versa) without reconfiguration from scratch would be helpful."
"I encountered stability (performance) issues during enclosure or disk rebuild. Also some power supply issues due to malfunctions of circuits. Sometimes "internal" Snap sessions hang and consume pool capacity."
"Until the drive is replaced, the pool_resizing is locked."
"IBM XIV's scalability is adequate for our requirements, but because it's modular, you can't scale to larger requirements."
"This product was not a good fit for our organization as we have a ton of latency sensitive applications and XIV was not able to keep up with IO + latency demand."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 2nd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 106 reviews while IBM XIV is ranked 10th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 6 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while IBM XIV is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM XIV writes "Using it behind the SAN volume controller, latency is predictable and it is reliable". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas IBM XIV is most compared with .
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