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We performed a comparison between IBM XIV and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The performance and robustness of the systems are very good.""Hands down, this is the easiest storage platform on the market to manage.""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.""Very easy to produce reporting data (Snaps). Very easy and fast for provisioning devices and Remote mirroring.""Installation is amazingly easy."

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"I like its storage capacity, quick access to the data, speed, and overall storage management."

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"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.""Until the drive is replaced, the pool_resizing is locked.""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.""The change form synchronous mirroring to asynchronous (and vice versa) without reconfiguration from scratch would be helpful.""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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"The main thing Oracle can improve is the cost. It would be better if Oracle opened up the system to enable integration with other vendors. Whether it's the database, application server, or storage appliance, they should make it easy to integrate them. They need to open up more to ensure that it can work in any environment and IT ecosystem."

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  • "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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  • "The price could be better. We have many competing products now like Huawei and Dell EMC, and these are slightly cheaper."
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    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.
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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.

    Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance integrates the cloud into its core architecture, making cloud storage available to all users and access protocols while eliminating on-premises cloud access licensing charges and the need for external gateways. Built using a powerful SMP design, multi-threaded OS, massive DRAM caches, and all flash storage, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance powers the most demanding applications, from fast query responses and, rapid transaction processing to virtualization and cloud workloads. With these performance levels, you can easily achieve 4:1 consolidation of your current NAS filers and gain a higher return on your storage investment.

    Sample Customers
    Celero, NaviSite, Technische Universit_t Mªnchen, Netflix Inc., Muhr und Bender KG, Pelephone Communications
    Translational Genomics Research Institute, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, CyberSolutions Inc., Y-Telecom, First Alliance Bank Zambia Limited, AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende, Mutlinet Pakistan, TDC A/S, Digi-Key Corporation, Thurgau Cantonal Bank
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Government6%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Large Enterprise63%
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    IBM XIV is ranked 10th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 6 reviews while Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is ranked 8th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). IBM XIV is rated 7.6, while Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is rated 7.6. 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 Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance writes "A stable unified storage system that enables quick access to data". IBM XIV is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, whereas Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE 3PAR StoreServ, IBM FlashSystem and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.

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