We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Installing FlashSystem is very easy. It takes less than half an hour, and I can handle it all myself."
"The ability to create LUNs and modify them are the most valuable features of this solution."
"IBM FlashSystem is a flexible solution with plenty of features."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and performance."
"The most valuable features in IBM FlashSystem are IOPS, performance, duplication, and compression."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression."
"The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."
"The performance monitoring feature is useful as it can report in 15 minute intervals by hour, day, week, month, or by a custom date range."
"I like its storage capacity, quick access to the data, speed, and overall storage management."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"Their technical support needs improvement in terms of reachability for the clients and response times. They should be more responsive and have more online platforms for support. They should make more technical information available online. There could be some kind of documentation community."
"The pricing could be improved, but I think it's getting better and better with each version. IBM needs to implement NAS storage again, as this is a big flaw. Dell EMC is very good at this and if you compared them based on NAS storage, Dell EMC would win right away. IBM's solution for NAS storage is very complicated. We don't have a storage box that provides file sharing from itself, we have to put software on it and go through a whole complicated process. It should be simplified."
"In IBM FlashSystem, data reduction is an area with shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"The array level RAID does not seem available."
"A big area for improvement is that the data reduction pool feature is not recommended for use in a production environment because it has stability and performance issues."
"The solution is not easy to implement. It takes a lot of time to study the product and it's a little complicated in general."
"It could be easier to implement."
"The main thing Oracle can improve is the cost. It would be better if Oracle opened up the system to enable integration with other vendors. Whether it's the database, application server, or storage appliance, they should make it easy to integrate them. They need to open up more to ensure that it can work in any environment and IT ecosystem."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 2nd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 106 reviews while Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is ranked 8th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 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 Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance writes "A stable unified storage system that enables quick access to data". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE 3PAR StoreServ, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE StorageWorks MSA. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance report.
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