Nasuni vs Oracle ZFS comparison

Nasuni and Oracle are both solutions in the File System Software category. Nasuni is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.0. Nasuni holds a 17.3% mindshare in FSS, compared to Oracle’s 8.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Nasuni users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 12, 2024

Oracle ZFS and Nasuni compete in data management and storage solutions. Oracle ZFS has the upper hand in on-premises setups, while Nasuni leads in hybrid and cloud environments based on user reviews.

Features: Oracle ZFS provides scalability, performance analytics, and robust data management features. Nasuni offers a cloud-native architecture, seamless integration with cloud providers, and cloud-integrated solutions.

Room for Improvement: Oracle ZFS could improve cloud integration, simplify maintenance, and enhance user interface design. Nasuni needs better on-premises performance, increased support for non-cloud storage infrastructure, and optimization for higher data transfer speeds.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle ZFS users report straightforward deployment, extensive documentation, and reliable customer support. Nasuni has easy deployment but requires more initial setup time and benefits from a supportive customer service team.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle ZFS offers competitive setup costs and a strong ROI for enterprise environments. Nasuni’s pricing is higher, with ROI heavily dependent on cloud strategy and utilization.

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Categories and Ranking

Nasuni

Ranking in File System Software

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

NAS (10th), Cloud Migration (8th), Cloud Storage (13th), Cloud Backup (35th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (20th), Cloud Storage Gateways (3rd)

Oracle ZFS

Ranking in File System Software

4th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the File System Software category, the mindshare of Nasuni is 17.3%, down from 28.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle ZFS is 8.5%, down from 9.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

File System Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nasuni	17.3%
Oracle ZFS	8.5%
Other	74.2%

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SwapnilDaga

Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Cloud data management that achieves cost efficiency with advanced data protection features

I am currently using Nasuni for seismic data. We have a huge data size, and we want to reduce costs. Nasuni acts as a caching solution, so we put some data into the cache, and the rest goes to the blob, which helps us save on costs. We use it for applications like Petrol and Tech Log, where 3D…

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David Kotey

IT Infrastructure Manager at National Investment Bank

Efficient setup and seamless performance ensure an outstanding experience

Everything in Oracle ZFS is great and it's easy to use, making it very user-friendly. I have used Oracle ZFS Snapshot and Rollback capabilities, and everything has worked well. The Snapshot and Rollback features in Oracle ZFS are awesome - that's one word to describe it. It's cool, very easy, and stress-free. Without doing benchmarks with other products, I can rate data compression in Oracle ZFS about an eight or nine out of ten, and I have noticed some deduplication and indexing features. Regarding how Oracle ZFS handles demanding workloads, such as online transaction processing and complex query executions, most of these aspects depend on your configuration setup. For instance, if you are using virtualization and have enterprise solutions on these servers, you can route or place database servers on SSDs or flash disks to enable better throughput from these systems. You can run your operating system on flash disks, or alternatively save ordinary data on SATA disks, depending on where you place your valuable data. The structure will affect performance, so if you plan it properly, you can achieve the best performance, even if the systems are aging or if you don't have the compute power, you can still balance it.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The global file locking feature is valuable. The ability to quickly deploy new sites is also valuable."

"The snapshot functionality and the unified file system are definitely the most valuable features for us. The UFS allows everybody across the organization to see the exact same data at the same time, instead of having different file servers with different structures on them, and that's mission-critical. We have different branches throughout our organization that have to act on that data."

"Nasuni is helping us replace multiple data silos and toolsets with a single global file system."

"We have absolutely seen an ROI, and we are super happy with our ROI."

"This solution has done a fantastic job of meeting all our needs."

"The Nasuni management dashboard is helpful because, on the administration side, I'm able to view all of the different filers that we have in the UK, rather than check each one of them individually."

"It has the ability to do end-user recovery, or a user can simply contact an admin who can perform a recovery from the management console. The versioning has simplified everything. Now we don't have to worry about those components."

"Nasuni has the capability of taking a snapshot every five minutes. If a user has accidentally deleted their data, we can recover it from the snapshot and provide the latest data to the user. It's a really great feature, one that is not provided by other vendors."

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"Everything in Oracle ZFS is great and it's easy to use, making it very user-friendly."

"Simply amazing filesystem."

"It is a pooled storage model and volumes are no longer needed, so thousands of file systems can draw from a common storage pool, each one consuming only as much space as it actually needs."

"Oracle ZFS is very fast and it is efficient. It has outperformed any hardware array controller that I've ever come across. With Oracle ZFS on my NAS, which is running five, four terabyte drives, when I've had a drive failure and changed one out, it'll rebuild that array in two hours, or maybe less. When you think you're rebuilding almost four terabytes of data redundancy, that's pretty good using an old AMD Turion hardware, that's nothing to complain about."

"It is not necessarily for the fastest storage or cluster storage, but just for pure storage, it's really hard to beat. It's just been around as long as anything else."

"The replication capability and data security have been the most valuable features."

"Oracle is one of the most stable storage solutions that I have comes across."

"Oracle ZFS is highly stable; the solution is phenomenal in terms of picking up the warnings on pending drive failure through smart monitoring, and when you pull the drive out and rebuild the array with the new drives, it's been incredibly fast and I have not lost data."

Cons

"We've had some organizational changes that Nasuni has not been able to keep up with, mainly from a data or file system perspective. Moving a filer from one management console has been a challenge. It lacks the flexibility to move files in and out of the management console. We have six management consoles now, and we're constantly telling Nasuni, "Hey, please allow us to move a filer from management console A to B." They can't do that."

"Its interface design or the graphic user interface design can be slightly tweaked in some areas. Some built-in setup wizards would be very beneficial. Rather than having to go in and configure it by hand, there should be more setup wizards for onboarding new data shares and getting it set up the way you want. I don't know if these are on their roadmap, but I sat down and talked to them about some of the work concerns, some of the things that we liked, and some of the things that we didn't like. They are probably working on that."

"The speed at which new files are created is something that could be improved."

"Nasuni provides enough reporting to see what's happening. You can see the number of shares, total volume, issues, conflicts, etc., but it doesn't provide much visibility from a content perspective. For example, it doesn't tell you the data age. When you're trying to sort and filter information, the data creation date is a critical factor. Nasuni doesn't give you that. You can't get a count of all the file types, like the number of PDFs, Word docs, and PPT files."

"We forecasted that the data at my client's organization would grow by about ten percent annually, but we are migrating more data because we are bringing in some servers that had not previously been within the scope of our license. We expected it would take us two years to reach a specific amount of data, but we hit that mark in one year. The licensing cost skyrocketed, so we need to renegotiate. It puts us in a bind because we are reliant on Nasuni for our service strategy. We can't deny our customers, but we also struggle to pay for that."

"One area that we've recently spoken to Nasuni about is single sign-on. Another is integrating Nasuni with Azure Active Directory. In our particular case, that would allow for third-party consultants to access our Azure Active Directory environment as opposed to coming to our on-premises environment."

"Some of their cross-platform features are really good, but it could always use more."

"When we first set up our bandwidth limiting, we had a few problems when it came to managing it."

More Nasuni cons

"Drive scrubbing needs to be run every week for consumer drives, and every month for enterprise drives."

"ZFS is great for just mass storage, but if you're trying to make fast storage – something like a SAN-type delivery network where you wanted to do any type of RAM disc over the network – it falls flat. ZFS does not do that. It is kind of limiting."

"While we did not experience any performance issues with ZFS, it seems it is quite possible to run into performance issues especially with NFS mounts."

"When retrieving data from the replication of remote sites, it does not give you immediate results."

"If I run ZFS drives, I find my RAM usage is very high."

"Oracle ZFS does what I've asked it to do, and it has done it very efficiently. The only time I'm running into issues is with Proxmox. If I run ZFS drives, I find my RAM usage is very high. However, I don't have that problem with the TrueNAS system, where I'm running an old N36 Turion with four gigabytes of RAM, and that's running 24/7. There have been no issues with such a low-powered environment there, it works fine, but with Proxmox it seems to go slow."

"When retrieving data from the replication of remote sites, it does not give you immediate results. The RPO and RTO rates could be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Nasuni should provide small-scale licenses, like a 20 TB license. Currently, the smallest is a 30 TB license."

"Nasuni pricing is average; it's not too high or too low."

"Our agreement is set up such that we pay annually per terabyte, and we buy a chunk of it at a time. Then if we run out of space, we go back to them and buy another chunk."

"Its price is fair and reasonable. I don't have anything negative about its pricing and licensing. For us, there is also the cost of monitoring. We are monitoring through Xenos and not through Nasuni. That is another cost for us from the monitoring perspective, but as far as Nasuni goes, we don't have any other cost apart from the licensing fee."

"The pricing is fair. It's an enterprise-level solution so it's not inexpensive... The cost is pretty stable year over year."

"It has a license fee as well as hardware costs, which we would incur if we want to use Nasuni Cloud Storage Gateway for upgrades."

"Its pricing can get a tad expensive. When we first took Nasuni out, we were just paying for the service. We got storage at a reduced rate. It has now changed, and they're now more of an all-in-one type of thing. It can be quite expensive, but it works out. Apart from that, licensing-wise, it's very simple."

"With this solution, the license renewal is pretty swift. With the virtual appliance, you just need to take care of the OS versions and patches. In a way, we don't have to struggle much with renewals because the only thing that we need to take care of are the licenses. We renew it every three years. This aspect goes with infrastructural costs because it doesn't cost us too much to maintain the solution."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	24

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Large Enterprise	1

Questions from the Community

Does Nasuni have a good pricing model?

Based on the experience of my organization, Nasuni is definitely worth the money, since it gives you an all-in-one solution where you'd usually need several programs. About the cost, there isn't a ...

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Is it easy to restore files with Nasuni?

As someone who has used this feature of Nasuni I can tell you - yes, it's good for file recovery and you'll definitely benefit from very quick times. I can't tell you if it's the best one because I...

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What features and services does Nasuni offer?

Hi, if you pick Nasuni, you'll be benefiting from many services for a good price. Well, it's a personalized price you get after an agreement with the company but in my organization's case, it is a ...

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What needs improvement with Oracle ZFS?

From my experience, we consumers will only ask for one thing from Oracle ZFS: cost improvements. Regarding the cost, making it 50 percent less would be beneficial, as it cannot be free.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle ZFS?

Our main use case for Oracle ZFS is that it's just normal storage for the entire infrastructure, so we have our systems connected to it.

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle ZFS?

Oracle ZFS is easy to scale; you can just get the modules and add them to increase the capacity, and that's it. It's just seamless. To summarize, I can advise those who want to use Oracle ZFS to co...

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Overview

Nasuni provides a robust platform for seamless global file storage, offering unified file management, data protection, and cost-effective scalability.

Nasuni's approach integrates a unified file system with high-level security features, ensuring seamless data access and synchronization. Despite its strong capabilities in data replication and storage, Nasuni faces challenges in integration and small file performance. Users appreciate its scalability and cost reduction but call for enhancements in cloud mirroring, automated load balancing, and multi-factor authentication. Better content visibility, mobile access tools, and refined monitoring are desired to enhance user experience. Organizations utilize Nasuni for global file sharing, disaster recovery, and collaborative data management across distributed teams, effectively replacing older systems.

What are Nasuni's Key Features?

Seamless Data Transmission: Enables efficient data flow across locations.
Unified File System: Centralizes file management for ease of access.
Unlimited Storage Capacity: Offers scalable options with global access.
Data Protection: Continuous versioning and ransomware protection.
Single Management Console: Streamlines administrative tasks.

What Benefits Can Users Expect from Nasuni?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces infrastructure expenses by leveraging scalable architecture.
Data Accessibility: Enhances sync and access across multiple sites.
Improved Collaboration: Supports teamwork across dispersed teams.
Confidence in Data Security: Comprehensive encryption and private key management.

Nasuni is adeptly used in industries requiring robust data management such as finance, healthcare, and media, where file synchronization and disaster recovery are critical. Enterprises deploy it to replace outdated file-sharing systems, enhancing workflow efficiency and data reliability.

Nasuni

Oracle ZFS is a high-performance storage solution renowned for its scalability and integrated data services, tailored for enterprise environments requiring robust data management and efficiency.

Oracle ZFS offers advanced storage capabilities, combining integrated analytics and data protection to deliver efficient and reliable data management. Its scalability and flexibility make it suitable for diverse enterprise operations, enhancing performance while optimizing costs. Oracle ZFS supports dynamic workloads, providing robust performance metrics and agile data services, making it an ideal choice for businesses seeking robust, adaptable storage solutions.

What are the key features of Oracle ZFS?

Scalable Architecture: Easily expands to meet growing data storage requirements.
Integrated Analytics: Provides real-time insights for data management optimization.
Data Compression: Reduces storage footprint and improves data transfer efficiency.
Data Protection: Advanced safeguards ensure data integrity and availability.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces total cost of ownership through optimized resource utilization.
Enhanced Performance: Accelerates data access and improves application response times.
Flexibility: Supports diverse deployment models and adaptable data services.
Reduced Downtime: Reliable data protection minimizes potential data loss.

In industries such as finance, government, and healthcare, Oracle ZFS is implemented for secure and efficient data storage, ensuring reliable data protection and compliance with stringent regulatory standards. Its capabilities support critical data handling and real-time analytics for improved decision-making and operational excellence.

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