Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series Reviews

The primary use case of the solution is to renew the IT infrastructure for our customers.

The FlexClone feature is the solution's most valuable aspect.

The solution needs a simpler licensing theme around the DM series. The problem is if you only need one of the features, you still have to buy the whole thing. The licensing needs to be more granular or flexible so you have the option to only license FlexCone or Inline Compression features.

So far we haven't had issues, but after eight months it may be too early to comment on the stability of the solution.

We haven't tried to scale this early into using the solution, so I can't say too much about the potential to scale it.

We previously used the V3700, which is also from Lenovo. The product was at the end of its life which is why we switched.

The initial setup is very complex.

We had a consultant help us with deployment. We also tried to get in touch directly with the partner, Lenovo.

Main Thing is, to look for the Need of your customer! It ist very very important to know where HIS pain Points are. When he Needs a completly ready storage without any thinking about licences or something like that maybe nimble will fit the best. When he Needs more flexibility about scaleability, and superior featureset of already proven Storage Solutions maybe Lenovo DM-Series would match better.

HPE Nimble, HPE VSA, VMware VSAN, Lenovo DE-Series

We use the on-premises deployment model.

I would rate the solution six out of ten.

If customers are asking for an on-premise storage solution, whether it is a NAS or SAN type of storage, the Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is capable of tiering on the cloud.

The most valuable feature of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is its capability to tier to the cloud, such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. Additionally, the integration is good and they are user-friendly.

I have been using Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series for approximately 10 years.

The stability of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is good.

Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is scalable.

There are lots of queries. If you have more than 100 queries in Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, we have 50% of closure.

I would rate the support of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series a four out of five.

Positive

The initial setup Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is not complex, it's user-friendly.

The price of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is good.

I recommend this solution to others. It is a very good solution and it is carrying the legacy of IBM.

I rate Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series a nine out of ten.

We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers.

The price of this solution is good.

Many people do not realize that Lenovo has a storage solution, so better marketing from the vendor is needed.

We have just begun working with the DM Series.

Our customers enjoy the stability that the Lenovo DM Series has.

The scalability is very good. However, if the product is a few years old then expanding storage may be expensive because of a change in the technology.

Our customers for this product are normally medium and large companies. The most recent deployment was for a company with 100 employees.

The initial setup is easy. If you have any familiarity with storage solutions, regardless of the vendor, then you can easily configure this product. The length of time required for deployment depends on the size of the project, although I would estimate the average to be one or two days. For a small amount of storage, it will only take a few hours.

I have worked with several similar products and I find that the decision by the customer is normally made based on the price. 

In summary, this is a good product and is one that I recommend.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem is used for everything in our company from ERP to BI, for production, PLM, CAD for designing, and everything else.

It takes a very long time to enter the management console, as well as to restart the system, and these are things that should be improved.

We have been using Lenovo's ThinkSystem DM series for thirty years.

We are satisfied with the stability.

Scalability is available and could be done, but we bought everything that we needed at the beginning. The system covers our needs so we don't have any reason to improve, update, or scale.

We have a local partner for technical support.

This solution has been in place and part of our IT department since the beginning and we have had no reason to change.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

We assess requirements and implement this solution for our clients who wish to update and upgrade their equipment, servers and storage. We build a solution and provide the equipment and deploy for our customers. With Lenovo, we use the EMC for storage and HPE for processing. I work with the HP series and we're looking to expand the Lenovo market. I'm working in an IT company and I'm the technical manager. 

In this solution, I like the option of clustering two storages together and that there can be HA availability. You can get two DM Series which is a 5000 Series, and you can cluster them and make a chain solution. This is a very important feature. If you want to build this solution with brands such as EMC, you should be paying a lot of money because it requires buying equipment like a VPLEX which is so expensive. With the other device you can launch as soon as it appears. But with this DM Series, you only need two of these. It's a very good feature. 

Unfortunately, this is a very expensive solution. At the end of the day it's the client that decides whether to implement.

I'd like to see a clustering mode included in the solution as an additional feature. 

I've been using this solution for 15 years. 

This is a very stable solution. 

We try to solve any problems ourselves using the company site because we have no local technical support in our location. If there are any technical issues, it requires us to send servers overseas and it can take several months to solve a problem. 

The initial setup is very straightforward. Deployment takes 30 or 45 minutes to install the hardware and maybe an hour to initialize or setup the software. A maximum two or three hours in total. 

It's important to know that the storage is entry level mode. In comparison with other similar solutions, I think this one is the most expensive. Clients don't understand why they should pay so much money for the DM Series. It's possible to get other solutions with similar configurations like SSV, SaaS, HPE, MS-DOS. These are cheaper solutions. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of 10.