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"The stability and performance of the drive are the most valuable."
"The most valuable aspects of the DS5000 Series are its high availability (almost six nines), stability, cost-effectiveness, and the unique IBM FlashCore modules, which other competitors lack. These FlashCore modules enable local operations on the drive itself without a performance overhead, a significant advantage."
"We use it for applications, databases, media, files, etc."
"I also like all the software features you get from the IBM System Storage DS5000 Series such as the SVC (SAN volume controller). You can put the code on the controllers, and it really gives you the advantage because you'll have HyperSwap."
"The solution offers an excellent price-performance ratio, including SSDs and compression capabilities. This results in faster performance and potential space savings due to compression."
"You can easily virtualize and share the storage."
"The solution is reliable."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Good performance for VM environments"
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"Integration with VMware"
"Improving software installation and licensing retrieval would make using IBM System Storage DS5000 series easier for customers."
"IBM is not always as agile as other competitors when it is about cloud integration and user interfaces. They're not renewing themselves very often. They have been slow to evolve from the old GUI. The user interface should be improved, especially regarding performance analysis, which has always been a little bit weak as compared to other solutions. As a global solution, it lacks the feature for containing integration object storage. Even though they have now started to offer this feature, it is quite young and not as developed as some other vendors. There are also no mass possibilities at all. They have a lot of competition in the mid-range segment. They need to have a NAS gateway or something like that. It doesn't specifically need to be integrated into the controllers that are keys to the gateway."
"The product should improve its support."
"IBM System Storage DS5000 is expensive when compared to other vendors."
"The product is very costly. Very few can afford it."
"I find the solution isn't so easy to understand. A user must be quite knowledgeable in the product. It isn't like HPE 3PAR, which you can use quite easily without too much storage experience."
"The amount of storage could be increased."
"The solution's integration with other tools could be improved."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore."
"Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones."
"It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
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IBM System Storage DS5000 Series is ranked 6th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 14 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). IBM System Storage DS5000 Series is rated 8.6, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM System Storage DS5000 Series writes "Very reliable, easy to install, and offers good value for money". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". IBM System Storage DS5000 Series is most compared with , whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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