We performed a comparison between IBM XIV and NEC D3 series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."Hands down, this is the easiest storage platform on the market to manage."
"Installation is amazingly easy."
"The performance and robustness of the systems are very good."
"Very easy to produce reporting data (Snaps). Very easy and fast for provisioning devices and Remote mirroring."
"As it spreads, a chuck of 1MB across the board means using all available spindles on the backend."
"IBM XIV's most valuable features are NVME, especially when it comes to de-duplication, compression, and responsiveness."
"The performance is better than with our previous version."
"I would rather have a web GUI served directly from the unit, and a CLI accessible directly through SSH."
"The change form synchronous mirroring to asynchronous (and vice versa) without reconfiguration from scratch would be helpful."
"Until the drive is replaced, the pool_resizing is locked."
"I encountered stability (performance) issues during enclosure or disk rebuild. Also some power supply issues due to malfunctions of circuits. Sometimes "internal" Snap sessions hang and consume pool capacity."
"IBM XIV's scalability is adequate for our requirements, but because it's modular, you can't scale to larger requirements."
"This product was not a good fit for our organization as we have a ton of latency sensitive applications and XIV was not able to keep up with IO + latency demand."
"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."
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IBM XIV is ranked 10th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 6 reviews while NEC D3 series is ranked 21st in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). IBM XIV is rated 7.6, while NEC D3 series is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM XIV writes "Using it behind the SAN volume controller, latency is predictable and it is reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NEC D3 series writes "Stable, performs well, and the technical support is good". IBM XIV is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, whereas NEC D3 series is most compared with .
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