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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"Support has been helpful."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The replication and mirroring features are very good."
"We use it for our VDI environment, and have not had any complaints with it."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"It provides multi-protocol, which is what gives the edge when it comes to big lineage PC workloads."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"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."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"Good performance for VM environments"
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"It was not proactive communication."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The price of the All Flash solution is very high."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"The pricing could be cheaper and it should have documentation in more languages, specifically, Russian."
"I would like to see higher-capacity drives, as they come out; I have heard that 15 TB are out on a different NetApp series. Getting those on the EFs would be nice."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate data between All Flash and other NetApp storage systems."
"NetApp could improve the speed of the rebuilding rate."
"The solution's technical support is not as good as it is supposed to be since you have to push them to get support."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"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."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore."
"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."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
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NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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