We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"IBM FlashSystem has an easy to use GUI, similar to the IBM Storewize family, which make it one of the best flash storage systems in the market."
"Stability-wise, this solution is fine."
"The maintenance service and support from IBM is very good."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"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."
"The storage system is one of the best in the world."
"IBM FlashSystem is a powerful effective storage solution. Additionally, it is user-friendly, anyone can use it."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"The product is flexible."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"If you want to expand, you cannot expand the disc enclosure. You have to buy a total individual node. Sometimes, this is difficult because we are just looking for capacity and not a node."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
"The solution is not easy to use and could improve."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"When you provision a datastore auto-format takes a long time"
"Our model does not support compression or deduplication."
"IBM FlashSystems is lagging in optimizing storage technologies."
"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."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"The product must support more drives."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 98 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and HPE StoreEasy. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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