IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe Valuable Features

Mohamed-Hassan - PeerSpot reviewer
Microfinance at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The most valuable features of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe are its steady performance and usefulness in high-traffic environments.

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Mohamed_Hassan - PeerSpot reviewer
IT manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I like the performance itself. It's the fastest storage we've seen so far.

Traditional storage systems primarily rely on tiering to improve speed and performance for archive functions. 

But for the entire bank, all the banking applications, or any organization requiring high-processing applications, we rely on the FlashSystem because of its speed.

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Aliyar Balikci - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Senior Administrator at Genpa

The most valuable feature of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is the snapshot. We use it daily for all of the storage units.

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IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe
March 2024
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System & Information Security Section Head at Ragab Son's

The solution is more available for IOPS warehousing, resolving issues, and reporting than other products. This is the main reason to buy the solution. 

The support, porting, and pricing are all good. 

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Directors at NYCO Solutions Ltd

There are many valuable features of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMele I have found to meet my needs. Specifically, the maintenance cycle is a standout feature of this solution. The main component of the IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is the maintenance of the batteries, which have a predetermined and reliable four-year life cycle. This is in stark contrast to other solutions that may use spinning disks, which can fail unexpectedly, causing unwanted downtime and maintenance. Having a predictable maintenance cycle is a significant advantage and has made this solution a preferred choice for me.

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Maik Zutz - PeerSpot reviewer
Produktverantwortlicher Storage und Backup at BITMARCK TECHNIK GmbH

IBM FlashSystem provides the same software on each box, including virtualized solutions. It helps us administer every box from one single source. It is a robust and good product.

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IT Solution Architect at Altopro

Its ease of use, performance, and hardware compression is very useful feature. 

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Foluso  Jibowo - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Hiperdist Ltd
  • Easy tier - Automates the placement of data to the right storage tier. 
  • Safeguard - Protection against cyber attacks.  
  • Flashcopy - For a point-in-time copy of data.
  • Compression without the impact of storage performance.
  • FlashSystem is hybrid cloud-enabled.
  • Encryption.
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Greg Brown - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Client Executive at Jeskell Systems, LLC

A key feature is that compared to storage systems that we've been familiar with over decades, IBM simply does not fail. The reason is that IBM is the only manufacturer that engineers its own flash module, and there is a key architectural difference from everything else that we have seen in the market. The difference is that the flash module has the computational capability, which allows reliability and capacity enhancements to be uploaded from the main controllers and run in each module. So, each of the flash drives becomes its own little storage system, and that is extremely effective architecture. In this field, with this type of system, IBM has made a statement. They've never had one of these modules cause an outage. So, the failure rates on these things are just in a whole different universe from what we were accustomed to. With hard drives, you have to plan on failures consistently, and you have to have rebuilds going on. Hard drives are mechanical, and they fail. With normal flash products, you still have failures because flash wears out when you write to it. It's part of the flash technology, but with IBM's technique, we're able to get the advantage of the flash storage without the reliability and rebuild issues that we had with other flash storage. So, it is extremely effective.

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AdeelAkhtar - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead IT Infrastructure & Datacenter at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The performance of this solution is good and they have a user-friendly UI. When we're working with a small volume without needing much compression and deduplication, FlashSystem works well. It's a simple, easy-to-use solution that is scalable. 

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Nattapon Kamchoom - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consulting Manager at A-HOST Company Limited

IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is easy to use and comes with good performance. 

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KashifAdeel - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Consultant - Infrastructure at InfoTech Group

Feature-wise, I like that the solution's disk space includes NVMe flash modules.

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Mohamed_Hassan - PeerSpot reviewer
IT manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The administration is easy and very straightforward. It is the same software for managing both flash and non-flash storage. It can be managed using either the GUI or the command-line interface.

It is a high-performance product that serves our requests well.

The IBM Professional Services give us technical support that is both timely and of high quality.

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PiyushKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Machine Learning Engineer at Tata Consultancy

The most valuable feature of the solution is its upgrades, as we don't have to do much homework because of its different controllers.

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KashifAdeel - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Consultant - Infrastructure at InfoTech Group

The solution provides unique and user-friendly technology.

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Executive IT at GBEL

What I like about the product are its high availability, maximum efficiency in performance, and its ability to handle a high level of I/O operations. This makes it very effective in reducing operational issues and ensuring smooth, reliable data processing.

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General Manager at SinergyHard Ecuador

The visualization, flash copy, and HyperSwap are the solution's most valuable features. The visualization in particular is stellar. It's very, very easy to use.

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DC
Senior Client Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature is the speed.

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Buyer's Guide
IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.