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We performed a comparison between IBM XIV and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Installation is amazingly easy.""The performance and robustness of the systems are very good.""As it spreads, a chuck of 1MB across the board means using all available spindles on the backend.""Hands down, this is the easiest storage platform on the market to manage.""IBM XIV's most valuable features are NVME, especially when it comes to de-duplication, compression, and responsiveness.""Very easy to produce reporting data (Snaps). Very easy and fast for provisioning devices and Remote mirroring."

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"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols.""I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system.""It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy.""Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use.""The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs.""Better performance and lower costs.""It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS.""Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."

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Cons
"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.""IBM XIV's scalability is adequate for our requirements, but because it's modular, you can't scale to larger requirements.""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."

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"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays.""Needs to ​add wizards for newer, inexperienced users.""The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others.""Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system.""We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult.""NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure.""We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better.""The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "If you are going to use the product behind an SVC, IBM will price the units lower, since you are likely not to use any of the advanced copy services."
  • "No-license-required policy, unlike others where you need a license for everything. Just pay once and forget about licenses."
  • "Licensing is straightforward."
  • "We have a five-year total cost of ownership where we pay an initial amount and then annually for maintenance."
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  • "It’s difficult for us to get money, so make sure you get everything in order, because there’s no going back and saying “oh, I missed this or that”, so make sure you plan well and well in advance."
  • "it’s not an inexpensive solution and it may not be for the cost-sensitive customer."
  • "The process for going to cluster mode is expensive."
  • "Most storage vendors also have software, or licensing bundles, which may offer the required licenses considerably cheaper, but do also maybe offer licenses, which are not needed."
  • "There are products available in market with comparatively lower costs."
  • "Cost effective storage for all performance levels (including all-flash)."
  • "The only area that could be improved is to lower prices for their All Flash FAS."
  • "The price it not low, but comparing features to other vendors, the price can be balanced."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:IBM XIV's most valuable features are NVME, especially when it comes to de-duplication, compression, and responsiveness.
    Top Answer:We have a five-year total cost of ownership where we pay an initial amount and then annually for maintenance.
    Top Answer:IBM XIV is attractive because it gives value for money in terms of features. I would give IBM XIV a rating of seven out of ten.
    Top Answer:Have you considered a NetApp FAS Storage for your NAS needs? I am sure it fits very well.
    Top Answer:The price of NetApp FAS Series is the same as Dell's cost, so I don't think there are any comparable elements in the pricing part. The tool is expensive.
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    Overview

    IBM XIV is a high-end, grid-scale storage system that excels in tuning-free consistent performance, ease of use and exceptional data economics, including inline, and IBM Real-time Compression. IBM XIV is ideal for hybrid cloud, offering predictable service levels for dynamic workloads, simplified scale management, including in multi-tenant environments, flexible consumption models — and robust cloud automation and orchestration through OpenStack, RESTful API and VMware. It offers security and data protection through hot encryption, advanced mirroring and self-healing and investment protection with perpetual licensing.

    NetApp FAS series is an enterprise-level storage system that provides a wide variety of data management services, including data protection, block and file storage, and data management.

    NetApp FAS is designed to be highly scalable, allowing your organization to grow storage capacity on demand. NetApp FAS also supports multiple protocols, including NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel, as well as various storage architectures, including SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network-Attached Storage).

    The FAS series has multiple data protection and data management features, including snapshots, cloning, replication, and deduplication, to help secure your data and manage it more efficiently. The system integrates with other NetApp products and solutions, to create a unified data management platform. The system can be deployed on-premise, on multi-cloud environments, or hybrid.

    NetApp FAS Series Benefits and Features

    NetApp FAS series provides its users with several key benefits and features, including:

    • Scalability: NetApp FAS series is easy to scale, allowing organizations to rapidly grow their storage capacity according to demand.
    • Security: Protect and manage your data with various data protection and data management tools, including snapshots, cloning, replication, and deduplication.
    • Seamless integration: Integrate with other NetApp products and solutions to ensure a unified data management platform across on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
    • Reduced costs: Consolidation of multiple storage boxes greatly reduces the data center footprint. From a management point of view, with NetApp FAS you manage a single storage box instead of multiple storage boxes.

    • Compatibility: Forward and backward compatibility ensures that you don’t have to trade in existing controllers. New controllers can always integrate with previously released controllers.
    • Multi-protocol support: Support for multiple protocols, including NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel.
    • High performance and availability: The solution has high input and output per second performance and ensures that critical data remains accessible in the event of a hardware failure.

    • Intuitive interface: The FAS series has a user-friendly interface and management dashboard, making it easy to manage your storage systems. With unified management, you can quickly run a single protocol on your entire system

    • Data cloning and replication: Easily clone databases of any size. Clones occupy a very, very small footprint on the storage until they are severed from the main database. Replications carried out by the system are fast and require very little bandwidth.

    Reviews from Real Users

    NetApp FAS Series stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its speed, reliability, and a wide variety of features.

    Adriano S., IT project and infrastructure service manager, writes, “The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage.”

    Temitope O., a NetApp product manager at Hiperdist Ltd, says, “I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system. You rather have a system for a particular protocol and another system for other protocols, especially in a big environment like mine.”

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    Celero, NaviSite, Technische Universit_t Mªnchen, Netflix Inc., Muhr und Bender KG, Pelephone Communications
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    Computer Software Company7%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    IBM XIV is ranked 10th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 6 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 1st in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 96 reviews. IBM XIV is rated 7.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". IBM XIV is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem.

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