We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and NEC D3 series 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 technical support for this solution is good. They used to help us when the motherboard of Power Systems broke. Their response times are really fast."
"IBM FlashSystem is the best solution for storage virtualization."
"The most valuable features are, of course, the virtualization of the storage, the performance, and the compression."
"One of the valuable features is the performance, it is one of the best in the market."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"IBM's technical support do excellent work."
"The speed and the ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"This solution is really user friendly. It also offers good performance and is highly reliable."
"The performance is better than with our previous version."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Replication features need improvement. Currently, they are there in the product, but I'm not sure as to how it works exactly."
"We use some open-source tools for monitoring, such as Grafana and it should be bundled along with IBM FlashSystem."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"There could be some extra features added."
"Include an option to upload the support package to the IBM ECuRep when opening an IBM PMR."
"The design is a little old-fashioned and could be updated. The rack is very primitive and designed in an older style."
"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 2nd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 106 reviews while NEC D3 series is ranked 19th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while NEC D3 series 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 NEC D3 series writes "Stable, performs well, and the technical support is good". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF, whereas NEC D3 series is most compared with .
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