IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7 out of 10

Score

7 out of 10

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TrustRadius Insights for IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Use: Reviewers have consistently found IBM Storwize easy to set up and configure, simplifying tasks such as disk provision and mapping to servers. The interfaces are user-friendly, making processes like creating volumes straightforward.

Reliability and Stability: Users appreciate the stability of IBM Storwize, particularly with dual controllers that ensure data accessibility and security. Its fault tolerance features, including automated alerting for issue detection, have been praised by many reviewers.

Performance Efficiency: Users have highlighted the fast data IO processing speed of IBM Storwize, making it efficient for daily operations. They also value its resilient data processing capabilities and storage efficiency management techniques like thin provisioning and real-time compression.

Reviews

20 Reviews

Affordable Storage

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 18, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Storwize was used to maintain the application data backup and disk allocation in AIX servers environments. We have resolved our data backup problems in our testing and development environments.

Pros

IBM Storwize is easy to set up and configure. This storage provides lots of easy features to use in daily operations like interface, disk provision, data backup and restore, etc.
Stability with dual controller

Cons

We faced few issues with vendor support when we faced one major issue with this storage

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storwize is well suited to every operating system like AIX, Linux, other OS, etc. This storage is capable enough to manage the workload, it's a fast and reliable system. We can also use this storage in cloud environments.

Utkarsh Khandelwal

System Administrator in Information Technology at Jaquar & Company Pvt Ltd (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

IBM Storwize Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 15, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Storwize we used in our DR site for AIX and Linux environments servers to maintain the data. IBM Storwize provides an easy user interface and many other key features like disk provision, updates, data security, etc which help to manage this storage in a smooth way.

Pros

IBM Storwize provides a simple way to do the Disk provision and map to Unix servers.
IBM Storwize provides the security and enough storage space for user data.
IBM Storwize provides the fast data IO processing speed.

Cons

Some time we don't get the error Monitoring alerts.
This storage is not really capable to manage our critical server data.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storwize is good storage to manage the different environment work and different applications/databases. This storage provides an excellent data backup solution and DR site. This storage is not capable to manage the huge data transaction.

Bhawani Shankar Satapathy

AIX Administrator in Information Technology at DXC Technology Pvt Ltd (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

IBM Storewize- Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 11, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Storewize is used in our business to store and manage heavy data and applications. This system is very fast and has a good efficiency in this system used in our organization for AI and hybrid cloud storage. This product has many features such as it is scalable and can easily access the data at a lower cost. So this is best for our organization.

Pros

Data accessibility is good
Provide Security to our data
Storage is enough

Cons

Need some Improvisation in data backup facility
Not always but sometime might be problem in disk scanning

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storewize is widely used in organizations for on-premises with a lot of facilities that are given by this IBM Storewize. Data accessibility is very good and fast in this system. This system is available with different data services such as scalability and flexibility in data even providing security to our data.

Mushtaqu Khan

Regional Business Manager in Professional Services at Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

IBM Storwize - Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 22, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using IBM Storwize for on-premise solution, Cloud, VMware and IBM i-series. We are also using this product for backup as well as.

This system provides high available data storage.

Pros

High Availability
Backup solution
Easy to setup and configuration
Redundant controllers

Cons

some time face the issue with disk scaning
We also face some issue with backend support during the major issue

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storwize is well suite for backup, VMware and cloud solution. This product can be used by small companies also. This system provide high availability data storage with redundant controller system.

Srishti Shukla

Territory Business Manager in Information Technology at Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

IBM Storwize - Cost Effective

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 21, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the IBM Storwize in our projects and company for backups and other small medium database and other normal transactions.

It has great capacity.

Pros

Easy to expand
Redundant controllers
High Capacity
Good for Backup

Cons

Dashboard should be more improve
alerts and monitoring
Real time compression should be more improve

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storwize is well suitable for hybrid environments and file servers ,backup etc. Its not recommended for that kind of projects in which heavy transection are happen. Its has great capacity, low speed use case.

Debopriya Bhattacharya

AIX Administrator in Information Technology at Kyndryl Solution Pvt Ltd (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

My Storwize Experience

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Utilizing Storwize allows us to provision our hardware quickly and efficiently. The interface feels familiar while giving you a more detailed view of the different components. From the initial setup to applying new storage to a host or hosts, to optimizing your IOPS by looking over the utilization. Big data, database, or archiving with the larger units, we utilize Storwize throughout many application functions or historical profiles. Small office file shares or medium-sized to large-sized deployments. Mirror your data as this is more and more of a requirement for businesses to run.

Pros

Better at fault tolerance.
Automated alerting so I know there’s an issue.
Built to last.
Easy to expand.

Cons

Update the dashboard.
Centralization is missing if you have many devices.

Likelihood to Recommend

This stuff runs! Hot, cold not wet, but you know where your data is. Reliably in the cabinet turning your data for the next customer request. You need dedupe, get the flash drive models. Long archives with spinning disks can help with all the data modeling the analysts do. Keep up with the dba’s constant need for speed with all-flash! You will get what you pay for.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

IBM Storwize - Great mid-range product.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 15, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company implemented Storwize 3700 a couple of years ago to replace an existing highly available solution from Scale Computing. For a fraction of the price we received over 20TB of usable space, dual, highly available controller nodes and much better speeds in a 2U form factor. It quickly addressed issues with space and reliability that we have been experiencing over the past 2 years with our old solution.

Pros

Redundant controllers
Wide selection of connectivity options

Cons

Issues with recognising disks from it's own supported disks models
The support staff can be a bit better

Likelihood to Recommend

The hardware itself is great, apart from few issues I had with it recognising disks from the officially supported lists. Another disadvantage is that you cannot really mix and match disks, at least in my experience. The support can be a bit nicer, however, once you get to an escalation point, things start getting better and my issue was resolved quickly. Performance is stellar, ease of use is great - very intuitive. All in all - very good product, marginally let down by not great support at the first line.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Storwize - High-Capacity Storage at a Manageable Price Point

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 16, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use a Storwize V7000 for backups and testing of copy services. It addresses the problem of recovering from a failure of our primary storage systems.

Pros

Low cost
High capacity
Good for backups

Cons

Would benefit from internal flash
Could use more streamlined port assignments

Likelihood to Recommend

Storwize is an excellent backup solution that works very well for us. It is great for high capacity, low speed use cases. It would be less appropriate for production systems or applications requiring the lowest response time.

Tom Corrado

Storage Specialist in Information Technology at Vicom Infinity (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

7 years of experience

Large savings for midsize workloads

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 13, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Storwize virtualized products to leverage storage efficiency practices to scale our storage to business demands. Data is endlessly growing, and being able to use virtualized products we can somewhat manage growth. We use multiple Storwize V7000 and V5000 devices behind SVC. The SVC allows us to seamlessly move data between storage devices without issues. Specifically, the V7k V5k, and as well as the V9Ks allow us to provision storage and over-allocate storage when workloads are not meeting the requests from the users.

Pros

Data processing and IO. The Storwize devices are very resilient in how they process data and do not have a drop in IO when errors occur (common errors such as disk failures and lost paths).
Storage efficiency management. We are able to use multiple efficiency techniques such as thin provisioning and data reduction to reduce our budget footprint.
Easy to use interfaces. Creating a volume and mapping to a host has proven to be a very easy process and makes onboarding less stressful for our team.

Cons

Support could use some improvement when there are major issues. Call home reaches level 1 support, but each error should probably reach a different team when a more major event occurs.
There is a bit of confusion surrounding data reduction pools and leveraging DRP or using FCM. This may be confusion on my part, not necessarily the Storwize product.

Likelihood to Recommend

Storwize has been well suited in environments where users have requested more storage than they need. Using thin provisioning techniques we have eliminated the need for multiple storage purchases. In our industry, we have users request storage more than they need. A user may request a 2 TB volume, but only use 900GB of the 2TB. Storwize is well suited for these type of scenarios because it can manage to provide the user with the 2TB allocation, but only physically be using the 990GB that is in use, allowing for us to allocate additional storage for other users.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

IBM Storwize, IBM's resilient product

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 13, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Storwize is used by the entire organization. It is normally used for some databases with medium transactions and file saving as document management.

Pros

IBM Storwize, thanks to its IBM Spectrum Virtualize base software, is able to perform well-executed functions such as storage to storage replication, easy tier, flash copy and the most interesting one that I have seen operating in our clients is the capacity for real-time compression.
We have had several clients with real-time compression component, thanks to the great benefits it offers us in saving space in volumes, rack space, energy saving, among others.
Real-time compression on a V7000 with its compression accelerators not only has the ability to compress data volumes but also gives us better performance.

Cons

I would like them to improve the real-time compression in the V5030 family, since when compressing the data it takes processor resources from the controllers, degrading the performance at the time of compression.

Likelihood to Recommend

A scenario where IBM Storwize is suitable is when we have hybrid environments such as databases, virtual machines, and file servers. With IBM Spectrum Virtualize software integration, we can take full advantage of the advantages offered by compression, deduplication, storage pool balancing, and data reduction pools among other interesting features that allow us to save considerable space and performance.

A scenario where IBM Storwize is not very suitable is when we have many transactions or a very high level of IOPS. In this case, it is better to consider an IBM Flash type storage with micro-latency.

fredy garcia

Presale in Professional Services at Redeban (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

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Large savings for midsize workloads

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 13, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Data processing and IO. The Storwize devices are very resilient in how they process data and do not have a drop in IO when errors occur (common errors such as disk failures and lost paths).
Storage efficiency management. We are able to use multiple efficiency techniques such as thin provisioning and data reduction to reduce our budget footprint.
Easy to use interfaces. Creating a volume and mapping to a host has proven to be a very easy process and makes onboarding less stressful for our team.

Cons

Support could use some improvement when there are major issues. Call home reaches level 1 support, but each error should probably reach a different team when a more major event occurs.
There is a bit of confusion surrounding data reduction pools and leveraging DRP or using FCM. This may be confusion on my part, not necessarily the Storwize product.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience