DDN IntelliFlash Scalability

CS
IT Manager at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scaling is okay. We can scale it up, however, the problem with our scaling is how do you scale up something that, when it was sold to us, was already on the way out at an end of life. Therefore, while we can scale up, we're going to scale up an unsupported product. 

Their approach is "Hey, listen, let's just buy a new product. And then you scale of the new product even better." 

With the scalability of the product when I purchased it, I was able to add four flash arrays, and we could add four hybrid storage drives.

We have 300 to 400 people on the solution currently.

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HM
Lead Systems Engineer at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

I don't think there's any scalability. From the outside, it looks awesome. But performance-wise, it's not good. You just have to buy new arrays if you want to scale. It's not like a traditional SAN where you just add in a bunch of this or that and start increasing your capacity. It's not like that. We have 4,000 virtual machines and about 1,000 people using them.

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it_user364671 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There were no scalability issues. It is easy to expand. Performance is the same or equal to the number of shelves you add, because every shelf is SSD-powered.

This is greatly different to the NetApp solution, which the customer had used before. If you add shelves in NetApp, then the performance goes down.

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MS
IT Director at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

I would say it's somewhat scalable, maybe not so much as some of the competition, but we don't really care. It has more capacity than we need. We're not even likely to upgrade it. 

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it_user535977 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer / Projects Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We did not have scalability issues.

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it_user495576 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We have not had scalability issues.

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it_user370707 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

We've not had to scale it yet.

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