"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"IBM FlashSystem is flexible, quick, and has a solid design."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"No queuing and high ops, speed, and performance."
"IBM FlashSystem is a flexible solution with plenty of features."
"The performance of IBM FlashSystem is very good. The new technology and high throughput have given us more confidence in the solution. The management of the system has improved and we can control the monitoring system alerts and multiple FlashSystems with the Enterprise Cloud Edition, which is free. The migration of recently stored data to a new flash is much easier. You can move your data because you can utilize it externally."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"We've found the solution to be very stable so far."
"I like most of the features. Its speed, performance, and availability are valuable. We are implementing the data reduction technology the most."
"The solution offers very good reliable systems and storage for our clients."
"The price of this solution is good."
"Ability to cluster two storages together with HA availability."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"It could be easier to implement."
"Sometimes the performance is effective but it gets resolved in the process."
"There could be some extra features added."
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
"The pricing needs to be more competitive."
"The pricing could be improved, but I think it's getting better and better with each version. IBM needs to implement NAS storage again, as this is a big flaw. Dell EMC is very good at this and if you compared them based on NAS storage, Dell EMC would win right away. IBM's solution for NAS storage is very complicated. We don't have a storage box that provides file sharing from itself, we have to put software on it and go through a whole complicated process. It should be simplified."
"The customer's expectations are what they get on the cloud, they're expecting even in the on-premises deployments, going forward."
"Many people do not realize that Lenovo has a storage solution, so better marketing from the vendor is needed."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The licensing model needs to be revisited. It needs to be simplified."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 27 reviews while Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 3 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.4, while Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "Good performance, energy efficient with a small form factor, helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series writes "Reliable, but has a difficult licensing process and needs more storage". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp FAS Series, whereas Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Dell EMC Unity XT, Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series report.
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