We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 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 crucial feature of IBM FlashSystem is compression."
"Speed (IOPS/second) – It is most vital for applications that need low latency and high speed for transferring the data."
"The solution is scalable and has varying degrees of scalability."
"IBM's technical support do excellent work."
"Flash disk with Easy Tier option"
"The performance monitoring feature is useful as it can report in 15 minute intervals by hour, day, week, month, or by a custom date range."
"High availability and enhanced security; Proven dependability; Data compression with hardware acceleration; Advanced copy services features are all in this product."
"The most valuable feature is that is supports a high IOPS rate."
"I like its storage capacity, quick access to the data, speed, and overall storage management."
"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."
"Events/log analysis tools."
"The GUI for monitoring performance metrics could provide better visibility. For example, it doesn't let me segregate the IOPS per volume."
"I know they have a flashcopy manager, but it is extra software, an additional license, and some customers don't like to add addition costs to their infrastructure. If IBM could create, or include snapshot management within the GUI, that would really be helpful."
"A big area for improvement is that the data reduction pool feature is not recommended for use in a production environment because it has stability and performance issues."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
"In the next release having the next level of high-speed performance would be great."
"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."
"The main thing Oracle can improve is the cost. It would be better if Oracle opened up the system to enable integration with other vendors. Whether it's the database, application server, or storage appliance, they should make it easy to integrate them. They need to open up more to ensure that it can work in any environment and IT ecosystem."
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IBM FlashSystem products are enterprise computer data storage systems that store data on flash memory chips. Unlike storage systems that use standard solid-state drives, IBM FlashSystem products incorporate custom hardware based on technology from the 2012 acquisition of Texas Memory Systems. This hardware provides performance, reliability, and efficiency benefits versus competitive offerings.
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 2nd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 105 reviews while Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is ranked 8th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is rated 7.6. 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 Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance writes "A stable unified storage system that enables quick access to data". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE 3PAR StoreServ, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE StorageWorks MSA.
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