IBM FlashSystem vs Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance comparison

"The solution is scalable and has varying degrees of scalability."

"IBM FlashSystem has improved the way the organizations of my customers function."

"IBM FlashSystem 5300 is offered at a very low cost in Israel, which is advantageous for small companies."

"The ability to create LUNs and modify them are the most valuable features of this solution."

"Speed (IOPS/second) – It is most vital for applications that need low latency and high speed for transferring the data."

"The ease of use of the system: If you have a small storage team, then this is the platform for you, because it is really easy to manage, really easy to use, and it does not take a lot of training."

"The solution is very easy to configure and use."

"This solution is really user friendly. It also offers good performance and is highly reliable."

"I like its storage capacity, quick access to the data, speed, and overall storage management."

"Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is a very stable and durable product that's very strong and mature."

"Very good analytics Very easy to configure."

"This storage is factory configured so it's very difficult and expensive to add more flash modules (disk capacity)."

"The product needs to improve their scalability and the price."

"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."

"They can include Amazon file system S3 protocol in the upcoming releases. It is a cloud file system. IBM FlashSystem doesn't have this feature in the box for high-end or mid-range. We have got requests for this from customers because we need to use S3 for EDI application storage. At the beginning of every year, IBM releases firmware. When I find any bugs in the firmware during the year, I am unable to find any information from IBM regarding the bug. I need to open a ticket, and the IBM engineering team makes a patch only for me. This patch is not public. By creating a customized patch for a client, they don't really solve the issue for everyone. If multiple users have the same bug, IBM should upload the patch on the official website so that we can download it. IBM FlashSystem has a monitoring tool in the box, but it is not advanced. I need a more advanced tool for more advanced equations and monitoring. All top three storage vendors, that is, EMC, IBM, and Pure Storage, don't have a powerful monitoring tool. To monitor our box to show the statistics for I/Os and latency, I need to pay for extra software. The built-in monitoring storage is not mature enough to handle all requests and generate all reports that I need. They can include the functionality to stretch a cluster natively without using any additional boxes. In addition, there are some features that EMC has integrated with the box. These features are not available in IBM FlashSystem."

"Enterprise data storage needs improvement. They should create a feature for data and file storage."

"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."

"The installation is not easy. You need to have extensive knowledge to handle it."

"The data reduction pool feature sucks and is not recommended for use with heavy workloads."

"Uptime. We had some crashes here and there."

"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."

"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."

"The cost of the IBM FlashSystem is lower than the HPE solution."

"The price is a little bit high so is rated a six out of ten."

"If five is a good price and one is a high price, I would rate the price a two or three out of five."

"The price of IBM FlashSystem is reasonable."

"Pricing can be considered as per market competition."

"Regarding licensing make sure you add at least three years software maintenance from IBM at the beginning, because you will not be able to download firmware updates or any fixes/patches without this."

"I'd rate the basic licensing and the Virtualize software a ten out of ten, and the extra Spectrum and other an eight out of ten."

"They've been much more aggressive in the last five, six years than they were before that."

"The price could be better. We have many competing products now like Huawei and Dell EMC, and these are slightly cheaper."