We performed a comparison between CLARiiON CX4 series [EOL] and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."Service from EMC was extremely good. Whenever a disk had a problem, EMC was right on top of it. In some instances, they called me before I even knew what was going on."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, which together, enable you to have more space."
"The compression and deduplication features are the most valuable."
"The initial setup is straightforward and can be done in an hour and a half by one person."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the deduplication, because the nature of the data that we are using in our current environment, has a lot of replicated data."
"The FlashSystem 900 consistently delivers performance below 1ms for read/write. This performance is essential for an effective SVC stretch-cluster configuration across two datacenters, and presenting active-active storage to the customer."
"The maintenance service and support from IBM is very good."
"The initial setup was really straightforward. It was not complex. Deployment took one month, due to the data migration duration."
"FlashSystem offers proven technology in a compact package."
"It needs better deduplication. Deduplication was costing too many resources, hence we never used it."
"In the next release having the next level of high-speed performance would be great."
"When you provision a datastore auto-format takes a long time"
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"Enterprise data storage needs improvement. They should create a feature for data and file storage."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"The interface could improve in IBM FlashSystem."
"This solution needs a management console where we are alerted to issues and can report them, or escalate them through email or another method."
"I would like to have a larger disk. Right now, you can get 57 terabytes in a shelf. Once they get the larger disk and you get larger capacities, it'll be even better."
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CLARiiON CX4 series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 2nd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 106 reviews. CLARiiON CX4 series [EOL] is rated 6.0, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CLARiiON CX4 series [EOL] writes "It worked fine and was very reliable, though the throughput tended to be a bit slow". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". CLARiiON CX4 series [EOL] is most compared with , whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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