Share your experience using NetApp BlueXP

We use the solution to deploy CBOs in AWS and Azure. 

NetApp BlueXP makes it easier to deliver products and manage inventory. 

We can manage multiple systems from a single point. The tool makes it easy to deploy CBOs. 

The tool needs to make its licensing pages more user-friendly. 

I have been using NetApp BlueXP since 2017. 

The tool's stability is not perfect, but pretty good. 

NetApp BlueXP is scalable. 

I love the tool's support model. We purchased a specialized support model. They are very responsive. 

Positive

The tool's deployment was straightforward. It is easy to add devices. 

We have seen ROI with the tool's use. 

NetApp BlueXP has reduced the time to prepare and create a new CBO. It has reduced our delivery time. 

I rate the product an eight out of ten. 

We use BlueXP to manage the data in our two data centers and on the cloud. 

The primary benefit is that it simplifies data management. We face a lot of classification issues with our customers. They need to classify data, but they don't know how to do it. We can help them do it using BlueXP Datasense.

The data migration tools are excellent. Once you have clusters in Blue XP, everything is easy. It's perfect for the guys in our office who don't understand storage as much because they don't need to go into system manager. They can use BlueXP to drag and drop things instead of configuring things the old way. It's a great graphical difference. BlueXP offers a unified control panel that does just about everything we need right now. Everything is integrated so well.

The VMware capabilities can be improved. 

We have used BlueXP since it came out a year ago, but we previously used it when it was called Cloud Manager.  

The stability is acceptable. I've never had an issue with it. The performance depends on where you install it. We primarily install it locally. Most people use on-prem NetApp, so the performance comes down to their box.

We provide level one and two support for NetApp to our clients in New Zealand. We only deal with the vendor when it gets to level three. 

Positive

We used Cloud Insights when it was a standalone tool before it was integrated into BlueXP. The integration with BlueXP makes it even better.

In the cloud, I can just provision it, so it's simple. On-site, I can spin up a Linux VM and install Linux in half an hour.

We see a return from having the ability to do things very quickly. We can work faster by dragging and dropping things around instead of using the command line or the standard system manager GUI. We had a customer who didn't know that it could migrate from the ONTAP solution we had in New Zealand to San Francisco. He's now doing that. 

BlueXP itself is free. For other things, it comes down to how much you're willing to spend on things like Cloud DataSense. If somebody sees the value in it, they'll buy it. We struggle in New Zealand trying to sell these features to people. 

I rate BlueXP 10 out of 10.