IBM FlashSystem Stability
I rate FlashSystem nine out of 10 for stability.
View full review »Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
View full review »The solution is stable and has no issues.
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IBM FlashSystem
March 2024
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WebOpsManager15
Web Operations Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We had stability issues as stated elsewhere.
View full review »IBM FlashSystem is one hundred percent stable. My customers didn't encounter any failures, so it's good.
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Abdullah Mahmood
Network and System Administrator at TWD Technologies Ltd.
The stability of the solution is very good. We haven't detected any bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
View full review »I give the stability a nine out of ten. The latest versions of Virtualize, from 8.5 and above, are highly reliable. I have not had any complaints from customers about them.
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reviewer2014950
Service Delivery Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten for stability. I have experienced one problem and that was solved by EBM. It was for a FS 5,200. I had to connect to an IBM i system without some switches. I was the second or third customer who did it, worldwide. They had to make a special patch for it.
View full review »IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution.
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Peter Sachs
Storage Infrastructure Engineer at Cambridge Health Alliance
The solution is stable and has good performance.
View full review »If you set it up correctly, it is very stable. After we configured it correctly, we didn't have any issues. I didn't have any issues after the first week of the configuration.
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Ahmed Zaki
Infrastructure Architect Supervisor; Solution Delivery Supervisor at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is stable.
View full review »I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten.
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Marko M
Product Manager at ZELINKA d.o.o.
The solution is very stable so stability is rated a ten out of ten.
View full review »IBM FlashSystem is a very stable solution and its default rate is low. In the past four to five months we only received one default.
This is a stable solution.
View full review »The solution is currently hosting our core banking system and we haven't faced any stability issues, so it is very stable.
View full review »It is a stable solution, and I would give the stability a rating between eight and ten.
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C832
COO at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's very stable as a single system or you can have it as a cluster for redundancy. We haven't had any issues, as far as I know, of it crashing or something that might make you suspicious about the reliability of the system. It is really reliable. The system engineers we work with have no doubt regarding any stability issues.
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IbrahimAysu
IT Manager at Def Industry
I rate the solution a nine out of ten for stability.
View full review »IBM FlashSystem has high availability.
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Savera-Menezes
Head of IT Infrastructure at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
The stability of the IBM FlashSystem is excellent.
There was no downtime when we patched the system, which is good because we wouldn't want our core system to go down.
View full review »This solution is very stable.
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Ghulam Mustafa
BT Area Champion/Trainer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
While the 9000 series has been robust and reliable, the SS9100 hasn't been so stable. IBM is currently working on a patch that should be out soon to handle the issues we've had.
View full review »The stability is very good.
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Moahmed Nabil
Infrastructure Solutions Architect at areebah
It's really stable, and many customers have experienced this as well.
View full review »Overall, stability is really, really good. We ran into some issues with compression, but it was because we were trying to overload it. So if we don't do that, it runs really, really well.
View full review »Yes, some bugs in the system, like nodes warm-started.
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Matthys Booyens
Chief Technology Officer at Inovo
We are a 100% satisfied with the stability of the solution.
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reviewer1550817
Hybrid IT Enterprise Executive at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The solution is stable. I rate it an eight out of ten.
View full review »It's a very stable product. I like it, and I have a lot of customers using it.
View full review »The stability's been rock solid. If we take a look at the V9000 and the base of what it's built on, it is the heritage of IBM Storwize. This goes back to IBM SAN Volume Controller or SVC. We're on a very mature code base and it is a code base that's been very extendable.
So over the years, they've been able to inject new capabilities in the product line while still keeping the product very stable. We've had customers who have been through multiple upgrade cycles over the life of the product with no issues at all.
View full review »We have performance and spiking issues of which IBM applied a work-around patch.
View full review »The FlashSystem 900 is a relatively stable platform. While any codebase will have some issues and require patching (nothing is perfect), the codebase on which the FlashSystem 900 is built is solid.
View full review »So far, it's been a very stable platform. There have been some issues lately with some bad codes, but for the most part, it's been very stable. It is something that I can recommend at any time.
View full review »We have had to bounce services several times over the past two years.
View full review »It is a stable solution.
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reviewer1983588
General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
IBM FlashSystem is quite stable. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
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C.
Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have never ever had an incident with it making the infra go on its knees, nor did we have any datacorruption ever.
All storage solutions have bugs and all have their correctives that might not address an issue on the first occurance or under all circumstances. When the system is stressed and under some specific (nonetheless rare) conditions , the developped code might trigger a reboot of a controller node to avoid data corruption. A system with 2 controllers is resilient enough on its own and a reboot of a node to prevent e.g. cache merge problems or alike is not harmfull.
To me, the need to evict a controller node and warm boot it is actually intentionally a safety precaution that avoids data corruption, something we all want to stay out as much as possible. It's as reliable as any other product in that respect. All solutions that I know off like DELL EMC Unity, Fujitsue DX-series or 3PAR Storeserv respond in the same manner to avoid datacorruption. I've seen it the most on the SVC (code 7.1/7.2 around 2012/2013 , but not on the Storewize v7000 Gen1 to Gen2+ solutions, though I have to admit they all had about 40 to 50% of the load of the SVC.
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The solution is highly stable. We did not receive any errors in the two years since we have been using them. We had one occasion when we had to call IBM for a replacement flashcard, otherwise, we did not have and performance impact or any issue with the FlashSystem.
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Gokhan Aricioglu
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The product has been stable for the last three months.
View full review »Stability has been great. Every time that we had a failed drive or a failed piece of hardware, it's been no problem. The systems have stayed up, with no problems at all.
View full review »We sometimes had a problem with some bugs in FlashSystems. One time, one FlashSystem was burnt up. There was some smoke and the data was damaged. We saved it because we have redundancy in the cluster. At the cluster level, we make copies and replicate to the other site for disaster recovery situations.
View full review »We had no major issues with stability. It's pretty stable.
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reviewer1344021
Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
FlashSystem is very stable.
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reviewer1648785
Technical Support Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution is stable and high-performing, causing no hassles or problems.
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reviewer1550817
Hybrid IT Enterprise Executive at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
IBM FlashSytem is very stable.
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reviewer1480077
Deputy Chief Technology Officer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
It isn't really stable per se. We've had some problems over the years. We experienced some problems with the backplane, from what I recall. There were issues switching the discs. We had a lot of issues with discs. Of course, the problems didn't really happen in production.
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reviewer1445691
Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is absolutely a stable product. However, we will probably not continue to use it in the future. One of the reasons for wanting to switch is the price. Also, technology is evolving and we will probably adopt a hyper-converged solution.
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Andrey Rogov
CEO at a government with 1-10 employees
It is stable.
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Chieftechofficer67
CTO at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Stability-wise, this solution is fine. However, we have been having some trouble with our cluster breaking.
View full review »Some isues were encountered during upgrades in the early firmware versions. This has now been resolved.
View full review »It is very stable. I see a lot of code upgrades being done on the system. Probably twice or three times in a year, they get new upgrades and code upgrades. That's pretty stable.
View full review »It is stable, because it's use an ASIC in it's development. Therefore, that does the job and it doesn't have software at its core.
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SeniorTeb154
Senior Technology Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
It is stable.
View full review »The stability is awesome. It's based off a mature product line, Spectrum Virtualize. It's a long standing product. It's been around since 1999, so that core technology is there.
The flash system has grown from the old TMS days. It's a well-known and proven technology, so they've combined the two well-known and well-proven technologies to form this solution. It's just very solid.
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SystemsIe783
Systems integrator at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
So far, it's been very stable. There have been no issues.
View full review »It's been a great product. As they increase the firmware codes and add new enhancements, it just becomes more stable.
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reviewer1223328
Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
This solution is very stable.
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VADIM CHICHERIN
Head of Data Center Administration at ООО Компания Тензор
IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution.
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reviewer1025793
Technology Supervisor at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is quite good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's a very reliable product.
View full review »For me, it's stable.
View full review »Stability has been good. We haven't had any issues, besides those that were our own fault when we pushed the work loads too high.
View full review »I have not had any real issues. I think it is very stable. We have not had any outages or any unexpected issues. I would say it’s very stable.
View full review »It's very stable.
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Khaled Elashmawy
Chief Technology Officer at areebah
IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution.
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reviewer1155420
NDT - TECHNICIAN at a paper AND forest products with 1,001-5,000 employees
IBM FlashSystem is stable, we have not found any issues.
View full review »No problem, in fact it is a characteristic that I like.
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reviewer1059243
Senior System & Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Node conditions in specific workload conditions might trigger a node reset.
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This is not an enterprise solution, and our team doesn't sell that. That's how it is. So we shouldn't expect an enterprise level solution. Whatever is marketable for the segment serves a purpose.
View full review »The stability of the system is fine.
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reviewer1759665
Storage Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
There are some stability issues.
View full review »Yes, we faced power supply failure, Multiple SAS drives failure, and at the end both controllers were dead.
View full review »We've had some issues with stability, such as a couple of hardware failures and a couple of code bugs. They were addressed, but they caused initial customer concern.
View full review »The stability is not very good. Over the course of the last two years, we had two incidents with flash storage when we lost our data. We have three flash storages and we lost all the data on two of them. That was not very good.
View full review »Stability has been excellent and we never had any problems.
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reviewer1081236
Director Technical at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's very, very stable, and we have never had issues.
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Ajai Jayakumar
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
So far, stability is fine. It's been almost three years now and it's working perfectly well. I don't have any hardware issues or any other performance issues. I've had only good feedback about the system.
View full review »It is very stable. We've been using this solution for more than ten years. We're using it on our three big sites, there were no issues.
View full review »So far, it seems pretty stable. We haven't had any major issues.
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reviewer744948
Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We did not have any issues from the client saying that Storwize had stability issues. We didn't have any issues with it.
No, no at all.
View full review »The stability is very good.
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reviewer1314750
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
IBM FlashSystem has been stable in our operations.
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reviewer1547445
System engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is stable.
View full review »Good stability.
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reviewer1386717
Technical Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1477065
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is stable.
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technica379896
Technical Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Only battery for controller.
View full review »It is very stable.
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technica379896
Technical Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
none so far.
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IBM FlashSystem
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM FlashSystem. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.