We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"Technical support is good."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"The power systems are very reliable if you are running 24/7 operations. For ongoing mission-critical applications, it's the best solution."
"The initial setup was really straightforward. It was not complex. Deployment took one month, due to the data migration duration."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"High availability and enhanced security; Proven dependability; Data compression with hardware acceleration; Advanced copy services features are all in this product."
"IBM's technical support do excellent work."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features are, of course, the virtualization of the storage, the performance, and the compression."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature."
"Compared to Dell Unity XT, what I see as an advantage in NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is the fact that it is more scalable...The performance of the product is good."
"Some of the valuable features include MetroCluster switchover, in terms of disaster recovery, it is easy to use, and flexible."
"We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance of the database access."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Replication features need improvement. Currently, they are there in the product, but I'm not sure as to how it works exactly."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"The interface could improve in IBM FlashSystem."
"The design is a little old-fashioned and could be updated. The rack is very primitive and designed in an older style."
"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."
"I think the only thing the developers can look at, is that it is limited to 25 gigabytes currently. In the next release they might want to increase that."
"Events/log analysis tools."
"The basic setup can be challenging when it comes to certain IP addresses and the configuration of the IP. You have to go in to different menus to makes changes and ensure it is stable."
"I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T"
"The management interface, while very reliable, it seems a little old now and could maybe use a little modernization."
"As far as the manageability, being able to port between the two and have to do less training in-house from a customer point of view, that would be the part to improve."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
"This solution has limited storage."
"It was difficult to implement and lacks some additional features that would be useful, but as a solution fits a particular need for our organization."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate data between All Flash and other NetApp storage systems."
"The initial setup phase of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is not straightforward and needs improvement."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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