We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and NetApp NVMe AFF A800 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"IBM's technical support do excellent work."
"The most valuable feature is that is supports a high IOPS rate."
"We've found the solution to be very stable so far."
"The most valuable feature is reliability."
"No queuing and high ops, speed, and performance."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"The storage system is one of the best in the world."
"The valuable features are high availability, compression, and a failover mechanism. It's a very highly available storage solution."
"Over the eight years, we've been using NetApp with ONTAP, we've never lost a bit of data, and we've only experienced a few minutes of downtime in that entire time."
"We find the product to be very flexible."
"Low latency is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O."
"NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is easier to use than some other solutions and the UI is very good to use for day-to-day activities. Overall, the solution has good technology."
"During the use cases of the solution, its reliability and suitability are the best."
"The most valuable features are stability and performance."
"The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The price should be lower."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"Automation could be simplified."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"The ease of installation should be improved. We had issues with the configuration model."
"The price is very costly."
"The generic functionality of IBM FlashSystem, IBM always dismisses using file share or sharing protocols inside their storage hardware, and they only focus on the block-level storage."
"The storage capacity of this solution could be improved."
"This solution could be improved by offering greater amounts of storage."
"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
"One area for improvement is in the GUI, where host clusters are not properly dealt with. With Hypervisor host clusters, all hosts must see the same volumes in the same order. Using the concept of a “host-group” has been around (even with IBM) for many years, so why not with the V7000?"
"The support can take a few days to have a response. However, the response that we do receive is very informative."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Sometimes, it takes a while to get somebody competent on the other end of the line. They do have engineers in multiple time zones around the world. However, their level-one support is not always the best."
"Increasing the RAM, and including physical cords would be beneficial."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The cost of the solution is quite high. It would be ideal if they could adjust it so that it's a but less."
"The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better."
"The product’s UI could be better."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked 17th in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 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 NVMe AFF A800 writes "Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI ". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 report.
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