We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and Panasas ActiveStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."They have a virtualization feature and, even if you do not want to buy that feature, you can have it as a trial for two to three months. If you have another brand of storage from another company, you can use this tool to transfer all your data from the old system to the new Storwize system, which really shortens the migration time."
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"IBM FlashSystem is a powerful effective storage solution. Additionally, it is user-friendly, anyone can use it."
"Installing FlashSystem is very easy. It takes less than half an hour, and I can handle it all myself."
"The price-performance ratio is most valuable."
"Flash disk with Easy Tier option"
"Speed (IOPS/second) – It is most vital for applications that need low latency and high speed for transferring the data."
"The solution is very easy to configure and use."
"We've found the product to be quite flexible."
"I am impressed with the tool's performance and bandwidth."
"The design is a little old-fashioned and could be updated. The rack is very primitive and designed in an older style."
"If you want to expand, you cannot expand the disc enclosure. You have to buy a total individual node. Sometimes, this is difficult because we are just looking for capacity and not a node."
"It could be easier to implement."
"Our model does not support compression or deduplication."
"The interface could improve in IBM FlashSystem."
"The solution is quite expensive. That's one of the downsides to using it."
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"AHV is Acropolis Hypervisor – A relatively new Hypervisor, robust and stable as VMware vSphere, has built-in advanced analytics and powerful operations, Self Service Portal and components for DevOps included, managed by a single pane of glass (Prism) via HTML5 and it is free of charge – That is why Nutanix is so advanced and revolutionary."
"We have received complaints from customers that the tool is not easy to use. The tool's local technical service is slow. The solution is good for Linux customers and not for customers with other operating systems like Windows. The solution should provide storage without client software integration."
"The solution is quite expensive."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews while Panasas ActiveStor is ranked 14th in NAS with 2 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Panasas ActiveStor is rated 9.0. 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 Panasas ActiveStor writes "A stable solution with good performance and bandwidth". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Panasas ActiveStor is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and NetApp FAS Series.
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