IBM FlashSystem
IBM FlashSystems deliver microsecond response times, faster than any other storage product on the market, and more IOPS. Why? IBM FlashSystems do not use commodity SSDs like other FlashSystem vendors.
✅ IBM built their own MicroLatency module that can provide 4X greater capacity than competing FlashSystem products.
✅ IBM doesn’t use open source operating systems or off the shelf interfaces, they built their FlashSystem using decades of experience in hardware accelerated I/O engineering (without any software in the datapath), using its patented enhanced MLC technology, two-dimensional flash RAID and advanced flash management technology.
✅ IBM guarantees many of its FlashSystem performance and reliability objectives, where no other competing SAN storage vendor will dare comment.
✅ Competing FlashSystem products usually include a form of system level RAID, they do not typically include module-level protections like IBM's FlashSystem Variable Stripe RAID.
✅ Competing flash storage products (typically use third-party SSDs), are likely to experience more SSD failures.
✅ IBM’s flash technology provides the lowest possible latency, highest IOPS, minimum bandwidth, highest density and at the lowest price per capacity.
Please view some FlashSystem customer results here. How would an IBM FlashSystem perform in your environment?
- Up to 50x better performance than enterprise disk systems
- Write and read data with industry-leading as low as 90/155 microseconds
- Load and apply firmware updates non-disruptively while the system is actively being used (concurrent code load)
- Complete maintenance on non-passive components non-disruptively while the system is actively being used (concurrent maintenance)
- Encrypt data at rest with no performance impacts
- Create LUN as small as 1MB or as large as 57TB and dynamically resize
- Read data at over a million random IOPS and at 10 GB per second
- Deliver up to 2.5 million IOPS and 19.2 GB/s bandwidth
- Provide up to 57 TB of protected “usable” capacity in 2U and scalable to 456 TB under a single integrated interface
IBM offers two FlashSystem models.
- The FlashSystem V9000 includes advanced storage services like data reduction, replication, snapshots and other software-defined functionality for environments that don’t already have virtual storage capabilities.
- For companies that already have virtual SANs and don’t want to pay for duplicative software features, IBM offers the FlashSystem 900, which is designed to run at extreme performance without any software bottlenecks which impact peak IOPS, bandwidth and latency.
Contact us for a free performance analysis of your system to determine the correct IBM flash storage for your workloads. We will provide you with a detailed report explaining how your environment would perform running on a FlashSystem. After the performance analysis completed, you may choose to install a FlashSystem demo unit running your applications for 30 days as a proof of concept.
IBM FlashSystem PDF Literature:
📑 FlashSystem 900 (Data Sheet) without virtualization software | FlashSystem 900 FAQs
📑 FlashSystem V9000 (Data Sheet) complete SAN solution with Virtualization software | FlashSystem V9000 FAQs
IBM FlashSystem PDF White Papers:
IBM FlashStorage vs Tier1 Disk Arrays | eMLC Performance & Value ROI | Lightening Fast IO Architecture | Micro - Second Response Times | Why IBM Flash? | VMware vSphere vStorage VAAI Performance | VDI Performance & Value ROI | Oracle Suite on IBM FLASH | JD Edwards Enterprise One Performance Benchmarks | Improving HealthCare Efficiency | Ideal Storage for IBM POWER Systems | Extreme Economics of IBM FlashSystem | Oracle and POWER Breaks FIS Record | Economic impact of IBM SAN Volume Controllers | IBM SVC Compression and Virtualization Lab Results | Economic impact of IBM SAN Volume Controllers | IBM SVC Compression and Virtualization Lab Results
IBM FlashSystem PDF Case Studies:
SQL Oracle & Cloud MicroLatency | Oracle VMware & Web Oh My | x86 Database Cloud SaaS IO Headaches | SAP DB2 500% Performance Increase | Oracle Flex VMware Citrix |Multi-Second to Micro-Second | MS SQL Xeon POWER AIX TriZetto | Stateless VDI VMWare Citrix XenDesktop | Persistent VDI VMWare Microsoft Citrix | Cloud Joomla Citrix | Oracle TPS IOPS on POWER | MS SQL x86 AIX POWER | Oracle MS SQL OLTP IOPS POWER AIX | Oracle Online Business Intelligence
IBM FlashSystem VIDEO Customer Case Studies
IBM FlashSystem delivers 90% Data Reduction VDI IO Performance
HealthCare on Oracle EMR VMware Citrix Compressed and Lowered Storage
Kindred Healthcare ensures availability and operates on growing storage costs with IBM
IBM Flash cuts data recovery from 22 hours to 15 minutes and reduced data loss
Service Provider gets 100x Faster Big Data Analytics with IBM FlashSystem
Royal Caribbean solves performance issues with Flash
World’s largest online gambling company increases performance 1000%
The simple beauty of IBM FlashSystems
V9000, the only all-encompassing SAN solution
