We performed a comparison between IBM System Storage DS8000 Series and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."The high throughput feature is the most powerful thing in this product."
"The Global Copy and Global Mirror features are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"This solution is resilient."
"We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"The solution should embedded replication switches into the hardware instead of using them externally."
"The GUI isn't as user-friendly as other options."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore."
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IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is ranked 2nd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays while VMAX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Frame-Based Disk Arrays. IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is rated 9.4, while VMAX [EOL] is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM System Storage DS8000 Series writes "Great Global Copy and Global Mirror features with an easy initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMAX [EOL] writes "Offers seamless data compression and encryption with no impact on performance". IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is most compared with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas VMAX [EOL] is most compared with .
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