DDN IntelliFlash Reviews

The extra capacity has allowed us to consolidate most of our storage onto one platform.

High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features.

It's annoying that if you turn on SMB3 (as opposed to the earlier CIFS protocol), then it is not possible to access a file store using a mixture of SMB and NFS. This is a serious restriction for a multi-protocol file server.

Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device.

We have not had issues with stability.

Support has been good, although we haven't needed to use it much.

We switched from NetApp, mainly due to cost.

The setup was reasonably straightforward, although the documentation could be improved in terms of the networking.

We evaluated NetApp.

It's a good product with good support. I would recommend it.

Being able to add additional disks to a volume to expand. For example, for RAID-5 mdisk/volume, add three additional disks in RAID-5 and expand the existing data.

• The most valuable features are multipathing and Easy Tier.
• EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks
• Cheaper than pure solid state without needing to actively manage where the data is located.
• Multipathing: Provides redundancy by allowing each host to have multiple paths to storage, protecting against NIC/drive/storage processor failure

No issues so far.

We did not have scalability issues.

I would give technical support a rating of 7/10.

We used EMC and IBM. We got a good deal on Storewize and 6GB SAS connectivity was a better performance/value option compared to 1GB or 10GB Ethernet iSCSI.

The initial setup was straightforward.

It's good.

We evaluated EMC VNXe3150.

I don’t have any advice.

• Ease of Use: Someone can learn it in only few hours
• Performance: Easy Tier is doing miracles
• Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database

Performance supervision: It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element.

We have not had stability issues.

We have not had scalability issues.

Technical support is quite good, even though there is room for improvement.

We wanted ease of use and storage savings.

It is easy to do the initial installation/configuration. It is intuitive and well documented.

I recommend the full bundle software in order to have all the functionality. It is more expensive to purchase it one by one.

You will be quite surprised by the ease of use.

This product is relatively new, no major feature release yet.

We've been able to realise storage space savings for our virtualization environment. Also, it has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment.

The monitoring matrix and its dashboard need work. They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution. They need to help increase ways to save on hardware and electricity usage.

There have been no performance issues.

We've not had to scale it yet.

It's excellent.

It's straightforward and quick. The provisioning of a volume can be done within a minutes.

We implemented it in-house.

It takes around three and half years to achieve ROI.

We also looked at HP EVA, IBM v7000, and Compellent 8000.

When installing it, you should utilize two controllers with an additional disk shelf.

Space Savings with VMs and ~10 database servers

Usage during normal day