We performed a comparison between Dell CX4 series [EOL] and IBM FlashSystem 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 most valuable feature is the machine learning. We have been using this solution for a year and a half and we haven't had any problems with it."
"Ability to manage third-party arrays and virtualise them: One screen to control multiple arrays. Simplified administration."
"The storage system is one of the best in the world."
"At the FlashSystem level, customers are especially fond of multi-tier and distributed rate systems, particularly the dynamic rate six arrays."
"One of the valuable features is the performance, it is one of the best in the market."
"User friendly management interface."
"The speed and the ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"IBM FlashSystem is flexible, quick, and has a solid design."
"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."
"We recently found a problem with one of our Dell tower servers that we are using. The machines sometimes reboot. We went to the vendor to help resolve it and they're taking a long time. We need better support for it."
"IBM FlashSystems is lagging in optimizing storage technologies."
"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."
"The customer's expectations are what they get on the cloud, they're expecting even in the on-premises deployments, going forward."
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"This solution could be improved by offering greater amounts of storage."
"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."
"Include an option to upload the support package to the IBM ECuRep when opening an IBM PMR."
"In the next release having the next level of high-speed performance would be great."
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Dell CX4 series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 2nd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 106 reviews. Dell CX4 series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell CX4 series [EOL] writes "Offers good machine learning and good stability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Dell CX4 series [EOL] is most compared with , whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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