We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and VIOLIN QV2020 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."It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"The GUI is very easy and performance is also good."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and performance."
"They have a virtualization feature and, even if you do not want to buy that feature, you can have it as a trial for two to three months. If you have another brand of storage from another company, you can use this tool to transfer all your data from the old system to the new Storwize system, which really shortens the migration time."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"The power systems are very reliable if you are running 24/7 operations. For ongoing mission-critical applications, it's the best solution."
"The speed and the ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"Most of the features for the reduction in data compression are useful. It is also very easy to use and administer. Its performance is also good."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"It was not proactive communication."
"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."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"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."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"I know they have a flashcopy manager, but it is extra software, an additional license, and some customers don't like to add addition costs to their infrastructure. If IBM could create, or include snapshot management within the GUI, that would really be helpful."
"Customization features must be improved."
"AHV is Acropolis Hypervisor – A relatively new Hypervisor, robust and stable as VMware vSphere, has built-in advanced analytics and powerful operations, Self Service Portal and components for DevOps included, managed by a single pane of glass (Prism) via HTML5 and it is free of charge – That is why Nutanix is so advanced and revolutionary."
"Our model does not support compression or deduplication."
"When you provision a datastore auto-format takes a long time"
"The customer's expectations are what they get on the cloud, they're expecting even in the on-premises deployments, going forward."
"It has room for improvement in the area of stability."
"This solution could be improved by offering greater amounts of storage."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews while VIOLIN QV2020 is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while VIOLIN QV2020 is rated 8.0. 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 VIOLIN QV2020 writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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