We performed a comparison between Dell 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)."The most valuable feature is the machine learning. We have been using this solution for a year and a half and we haven't had any problems with it."
"The ability to create LUNs and modify them are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The price-performance ratio is most valuable."
"The initial customer technical support was efficient and effective."
"Stability-wise, this solution is fine."
"The technical support for this solution is good. They used to help us when the motherboard of Power Systems broke. Their response times are really fast."
"The initial setup is straightforward and can be done in an hour and a half by one person."
"The solution allows for easy migrations from previous products or vendors via its embedded storage virtualization function."
"The most valuable features are, of course, the virtualization of the storage, the performance, and the compression."
"We recently found a problem with one of our Dell tower servers that we are using. The machines sometimes reboot. We went to the vendor to help resolve it and they're taking a long time. We need better support for it."
"IBM could do more marketing and improve brand awareness. I had never heard of this product until a colleague told me about it. FlashSystem could add a few features, but it would probably increase the price. For example, Pure Storage offers instant snapshotting and partitioning. That would be nice to have, but I think the cost would go up."
"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."
"The support could improve by allowing you to speak to someone when you call rather than them calling you back. However, once we do have contact with one of their technicians they are excellent."
"They can improve its initial configuration. The initial configuration is currently very difficult. There are multiple choices or alternative ways to configure based on the use case and what you are targeting out of the device, that is, more capacity or more performance. These multiple alternatives cause a lot of confusion. They should increase the processing part of the nodes. Currently, you can cluster up to eight nodes. From my experience and the workload that I am facing in my environment currently, I would like to see either a bigger or stronger node or a larger number of nodes that can be clustered together. We formally communicated to them that we need to see either this or that, and they are working on something."
"The solution's infrastructure technology level could be PCI Express 5 instead of PCI Express 4 for the next version."
"The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"The solution is not easy to implement. It takes a lot of time to study the product and it's a little complicated in general."
"IBM FlashSystems is lagging in optimizing storage technologies."
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Dell 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. Dell CX4 series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell CX4 series [EOL] writes "Offers good machine learning and good stability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Dell 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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