We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"We are satisfied with the stability."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is its ability to store data well."
"Ability to cluster two storages together with HA availability."
"Scalable and stable storage array."
"The product’s quality of service guarantees the performance of each workload."
"The solution offers very good reliable systems and storage for our clients."
"Last year, I did a DM Series installation with my colleague, and this installation was effortless because we had Lenovo support on the phone, so it was easy to get help if we had any problems."
"The most valuable feature of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is its capability to tier to the cloud, such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. Additionally, the integration is good and they are user-friendly."
"The benefits are better up-time, better response time."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"The replication and mirroring features are very good."
"The hardware and software of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy for us to use."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"The management software is very good."
"It provides multi-protocol, which is what gives the edge when it comes to big lineage PC workloads."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"The Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series was very hard to configure. Installation of the product was very hard. These are its areas for improvement."
"I would rate the support of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series a four out of five."
"The solution needs a simpler licensing theme around the DM series. The problem is if you only need one of the features, you still have to buy the whole thing. The licensing needs to be more granular or flexible so you have the option to only license FlexCone or Inline Compression features."
"The solution should change the licensing model and allow customers to choose features based on their requirements."
"Many people do not realize that Lenovo has a storage solution, so better marketing from the vendor is needed."
"I would like Lenovo to add a feature like IBM Easy Tier to DM Series. This is a crucial feature for the customers."
"Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series could improve by having a snapshot feature. Additionally, there can be other features added to help restore the data faster."
"This is an expensive solution."
"This solution does not have any compression or deduplication."
"A little more manageability, a simpler management interface. It's not necessarily that it's way overly complex. It's just that it's not as easy as the FAS series."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate data between All Flash and other NetApp storage systems."
"I would like to see higher-capacity drives, as they come out; I have heard that 15 TB are out on a different NetApp series. Getting those on the EFs would be nice."
"It was difficult to implement and lacks some additional features that would be useful, but as a solution fits a particular need for our organization."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"We have used IBM previously. We found that the storage from IBM was poor and we chose NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays because it can scale very easily."
"I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T"
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Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is ranked 21st in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is rated 7.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series writes "Simple deployment, stores data well, but missing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is most compared with NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore and NetApp FAS Series, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, HPE Primera and IBM FlashSystem. See our Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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