We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and VAST Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The GUI is very easy and performance is also good."
"The price-performance ratio is most valuable."
"The solution is very easy to configure and use."
"The valuable features for us are the extra add-ons, such as the FIM provisioning, the compression, the disaster recovery capabilities, and the storage pooling functions."
"The most valuable feature is that is supports a high IOPS rate."
"IBM FlashSystem is flexible, quick, and has a solid design."
"The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, which together, enable you to have more space."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"The price could be better."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"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."
"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."
"It has room for improvement in the area of stability."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
"The solution is not able to replicate data in one-to-many scenario."
"I think the only thing the developers can look at, is that it is limited to 25 gigabytes currently. In the next release they might want to increase that."
"Include an option to upload the support package to the IBM ECuRep when opening an IBM PMR."
"The solution's infrastructure technology level could be PCI Express 5 instead of PCI Express 4 for the next version."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 18th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. 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 VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Qumulo, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and DDN SFA7990X.
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