We performed a comparison between NetApp FAS Series and VNX [EOL] 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 console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"One of the best features of the VNX is the ability to combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool. By combining small but fast flash drives, SAS drives, and high-capacity but slower NL-SAS drives, the VNX can intelligently move data to the different tiers of storage based on usage."
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"The most valuable feature is the tight VMware integration, due to the migration from bare metal to virtualized environments and then on to the cloud."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"Integration with VMware"
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"There is an easy replication process between distinct data centers via VPLEX and/or RPA. But I hope in the future that EMC/Dell could replicate this with other types of storage."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
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NetApp FAS Series is ranked 1st in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 97 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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