NetApp AFF Primary Use Case

Anna Sofo - PeerSpot reviewer
Commercial adviser at Personal Data S.r.l. Gruppo Project

We recommend NetApp for all our clients that have traditional infrastructures with two servers and some companies that are in manufacturing or the public sector. We have many different experiences with NetApp.

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Synergy Computers

The primary use case depends on business requirements and customer challenges.

NetApp offers two types of all-flash storage systems for different business requirements and challenges. They are also offering end-to-end NVMe-based storage systems within their all-flash product range.

NetApp AFF-A series and NetApp AFF-C series (recently introduced) are two different all-flash product verticals as per the following list:

  • AFF-A Series: A150, A250, A400(Midrange), A800(High-end), and A900(High-end)
  • AFF-C Series: AFF C190, AFF C250, AFF C400 and C800

The primary use case for AFF-A series models is where you need unified storage systems with extreme performance, end-to-end NVMe enterprise, or all-flash arrays, requiring the lowest latency and supporting twice as many workloads.

The NetApp AFF-C is the best fit where customers need a Unified(NAS+SAN) All-flash with capacity and affordable price. It is built on quad-level cell (QLC) flash technology to make it more affordable.

The organizations experiencing performance issues and looking to move from HDD to SSD flash and don’t want to pay an extra cost to get submillisecond performance for business-critical workloads, NetApp AFF-C is the best fit for them.

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Tyrell Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Pikeville Medical Center Inc

We're a hospital, and we do a lot of imaging tasks. Specifically with our cardiology imaging, we had a lot of issues with the data transfers to the FASM. Once I moved all of that over to the AFF, all of that went away.

NetApp AFF has helped reduce operational latency. From going from our old FAS systems to AFF, I already see massive performance improvements.

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NetApp AFF
March 2024
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EO
System Administrator at Haaretz

The solution is primarily used for various functionality. We separate storage from other companies. 

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Chuck Custard - PeerSpot reviewer
Exec Director - Global IT Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were using a NetApp 2240 Filer, which was spinning disk and a mix of SATA and SAS. We were trying to put a production SQL Database load on it and the IOPS were way too immense for it, so we ended up buying this AFF box. It solved all the issues, at the time. We haven't needed it for anything else.

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MR
Sr. Technology Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We are using AFF for a few clients. It's a specific type of data we use for these arrays, not like a block kind of thing or regular data. A few clients have particular requirements about where we put all the data. We are primarily using FAS, and we have around four or five AFF boxes. We don't deal with AFF regularly. 

We're not currently using NetApp Cloud Backup, but we're planning on implementing it. I'm not sure because my architect is the one who manages the end-to-end services for NetApp. He makes all the decisions on the NetApp side whether we use AFF or FAS. AFF is a unified storage box, so we route certain data to AFF. 

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SaneeshC - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. engineer at Sify Technologies

We are using it for configuring NAS as well as the SAN environment.

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WK
Chief AI & Full Stack Systems at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Its use cases include everything from high bandwidth to low latency, AI workloads based on NVMe drives, and all the way to our basic home directories and what I call common plop-and-drop drives for the teams. 

The challenge that we were trying to address by implementing NetApp AFF was that we needed truly high-speed storage to feed the GPUs for AI/ML workloads. We also had the financial responsibility of being able to lower the QoS when we just needed basic storage rather than Pure high-performance storage.

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Richard Lozano - PeerSpot reviewer
VP, IT Operations at ZOO Digital Group plc

Our use cases are related to VMware Infrastructure.

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GM
Lead Infrastructure Architect at Fortune Brands Innovations (Moen)

We're using NetApp AFF primarily for file and block storage. We have deployments for remote sites and our data centers, and we also use it for NAS file storage, both NFS and CIFS. We're also using it as a cloud backup, so it is like our tertiary spot for cold data or snapshots. 

Our team is gaining experience with ONTAP, which works similarly in the cloud with Azure. As the business has more requests for spinning up new apps in Azure, we'll have the expertise to deploy that quickly in Azure natively with ONTAP stuff. 

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Pedro Paz - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Eni Energies et Services

The main service of those devices is for use at our offshore platforms and that's where they'll be heading. We have a lot of data offshore, seismic data, and it needs to be stored in a reliable system. The main use case is to store the core business data from the platform at our offshore site, so that it is safe.

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Naveen Radhwani - PeerSpot reviewer
Head IT at TO THE NEW Digital

I have used it for storage services.

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Mangalam Amriish - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant at Techwave.

We utilize NetApp AFF to deliver data to our users per our server and application requirements. My primary responsibilities lie within the data center, where I configure and manage user access.

The challenges we faced before implementing NetApp AFF were connection connectivity in our network, installations with current software, and upgrades.

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PN
Sr. Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I use it primarily as a database storage solution, supporting various applications such as Oracle, VMware, and NFS SAN. It serves as a versatile storage platform for multiple use cases.

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KT
Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I use NetApp AFF in our cloud service infrastructure to provide data storage and management for our customers. 

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PS
Lead Infrastructure engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We use the solution for virtualization. We run VMware on it.

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KD
Storage Engineer at a religious institution with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution for databases, including Oracle, SQL, PostgreSQL, and VMware. 

We're moving some data warehouses over as well as our main financial system.

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SG
Storage Engineer at Missile Defense Agency

We use NetApp AFF mostly as a NAS solution, but we do some SAN with it. Basically, we're just doing file services for the most part.

We're running an AFF A300 as well as a FAS8040 that is clustered together with the AFF A300.

We're not allowed to use cloud models.

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SS
Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We use it to create our volume groups for our ESX hosts, VMware, file storage, and Flash Pool for our images. We use it as a tier storage to our NetApp storage grid.

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MS
Infrastructure Team Lead at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees

We use this solution for NAS and SAN.

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JT
Manager, Data Center Services at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our main use revolves around database management, specifically for Oracle and SQL databases, including large databases, and for handling unstructured file data within our organization.

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RaffaeleBrescia - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and System Administration at Simac BE ICT

It is used for separating locations from a network cluster and also to store the data and create a backup on another location for bigger companies.

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DB
Sr Infrastructure Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

We share data between systems as well as sharing data between our off-brand mainframe.

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BC
Storage Manager at State of Nebraska

We use NetApp AFF products for file storage across multiple agencies in the State of Nebraska. We are a consolidated state, so all of the agencies of our state have consolidated files on NetApp products. We use AFF as our top tier solid-state storage for application and user data storage.

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SG
IT Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We adopted it primarily for performance and space-saving benefits.

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RN
Storage at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We use NetApp AFF for daily maintenance. It's used to provision volumes for customers and other departments. 

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ParthaBhattacharyya - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Department of Defence, Australian Government

This is a storage solution. 

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CD
Sr Linux SysrAdmin at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We primarily use the solution for service deck storage.

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NK
Sr. System Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees

We use it mostly for user file data. We are also providing data stores for our VMware platform.

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MB
Senior Storage Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We are mostly using it for ESX, i.e., a mix of both CIFS and NFS shares, and NAS purposes. 

We have a team of four core NetApp trained people from the storage team who are managing NetApp. Two of them are in the learning stage, and I am one of them. 

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HS
Enterprise Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution mostly for virtual workloads, VMware, databases, and also the VDI infrastructure.

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SA
Director of the Projects Department at ALPIX

It's used for SAN environments and a lot of VMware utilization.

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KN
Sr Data Storage at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We use AFF to serve out the Oracle and for the virtual storage VDI.

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VinceVitro - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using NetApp AFF primarily for file servers.

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JC
Senior Unix Storage Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary usage for All Flash is for the Oracle Database. 

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SP
IT Manager at TELUS Corporation

We use it for NFS and CIFS to structure data. We have about a couple of petabytes of all-flash.

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MV
Data Center Engineer at Belimed

We use the solution to host the system data for VMs.

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BH
Cloud Storage Engineer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our primary use case is running NFS exports for our local on-premises VMware and our CIFS for local shares.

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SM
Systems Engineer at Cleveland Clinic

The primary use case for AFF is as a SAN storage for our SQL database and VMware environment, which drives our treatment systems. We do not use our it currently for AI or machine learning.

We are running ONTAP 9.6.

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RA
Director, IT Infrastructure Services at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We host data for our users via CIFS and NFS protocols.

This is a physical appliance.

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JB
Manager at Pramerica

Our primary use case for this solution is for production storage.

We don't use ONTAP for artificial intelligence or machine learning applications.

We're not replicating to the cloud yet. We're replicating from on-prem to on-prem, but replicating to the cloud is probably our next step in our data center evolution.

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DB
Consulting Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We use it primarily for CIFS and NFS shares, e.g., Windows shares and network shares for Linux-based systems.

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MA
Chief Information Officer at Mt. San Rafael Hospital

We have a pretty amazing story about using AFS. When I went into this organization, we had a 59% uptime ratio, and at the time we were looking at how to improve on efficiency, and how to bring good technology initiatives together to make this digital transformation happen. When the Affordable Care Act came out, it started mandating a lot of these health care organizations to implement an electronic medical record system. Of course, since health care has been behind the curve when it comes to technology, it was a major problem when I came into this organization that had a 59% uptime ratio. They also wanted to implement an electronic medical record system throughout their facility, and we didn't have the technology in place.

One of my key initiatives at the time was to determine what we wanted to do as a whole organization. We wanted to focus on the digital transformation. We needed to determine if we could find some good business partners in place so we selected NetApp. We were trying to create a better, efficient process, with very strong security practices as well. We selected an All-Flash FAS solution because we were starting to implement virtual desktop infrastructure with VMware.

We wanted to throw out zero clients throughout the whole organization for the physicians, which allowed them to do single sign-on. The physician would be able to go to one specific office, tap his badge, sign in to the specific system from there. That floating profile would come over with him, and then you just created some great efficiencies. The security practices behind the ONTAP solution and the security that we were experiencing with NetApp was absolutely out of this world. I've been very impressed with it. One of the main reasons I started with NetApp was because they have a strong focus on health care initiatives. I was asked to sit on the neural network, which was a NetApp-facilitated health care advisory group that focused and looked at the overall roadmap of NetApp. When you have a good business partner like NetApp, versus a vendor where a vendor's going to come in, sell me a solution and just call me a year later and say that they want us to sign something, I'm not looking for people like that. I'm looking for business partners. What I like to say is, "My success is your success, and your success is ours." That's really a critical point that NetApp has demonstrated.

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KL
IT Operations Manager at Idaho State Insurance Fund

NetApp is our primary storage device for our line of business. We use NetApp as our primary storage device and also for our DR.

We are a workers' comp insurance company that has been in business for a 120 years.

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RA
Lead Technician at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

We have Cloud Volumes on top of our RDR instance and SnapMirror from on-prem to that.

We use AFF to replicate the data from our on-premises data center to the cloud.

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DA
CTO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We primarily use the solution for SQL server-based applications.

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DR
Storage Administrator at Sensa ehf.

We use it as the backbone for all our VM and Hyper-V infrastructure. We also use it as file servers for external users, so we have a couple of users who are connected to it for file server purposes. We have everything connected to it, e.g., we have a repository from Rubrik down to AFF.

We have our own customers for whom we have deployed the solution. For our hosting options, we use NetApp as well. Since we are selling hosted services and have customers connecting into our environment, the solution has definitely helped a lot from that standpoint.

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TC
Infrastructure Architect at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have a workload class that requires better performance. 

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RV
Manager, Storage Engineering at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

NetApp AFF handles tier-one workloads, including home drives, departmental shares, group shares, and application shares.

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HM
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The main purpose of the AFF is to work with applications that require high-intensity I/O operations. For example, we run some open-source DBs, as well as Oracle, that require high-intensity I/O. We also have a high-performance computing setup.

We have two locations. In the first location, we have an AFF cluster. In the second location, we have an AFF cluster that works in combination with ASAs.

Our environment is primarily made up of open-source applications. 

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MM
Senior Network Technical Developer and Support Expert at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

NetApp AFF is used to store all of our data.

We're a full Epic shop, and we 're running Epic on all of our AFFs. We also run Caché, Clarity Business Objects, and we love the SnapMirror technologies. 

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

Our primary use for this solution is for production storage. We have got everything: VMware, SQL servers and file servers. It handles all of them.

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BT
Director of Infrastructure Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We did it for consolidation of eight file repairs. We needed the speed to make sure that it worked when we consolidated.

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BP
Storage Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We use it for block storage.

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JM
Network Storage Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We use them for file services, email, as LUNs for servers, Exchange, Oracle, and SQL.

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MD
AWS Solutions Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We host NSS as a part of a cluster. We use AFF to support data analytics, machine learning, cloud integration, and SAP workloads as well.

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JG
Vice President Data Protection Strategy at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is primarily used for data protection and disaster recovery, business continuity, and cybersecurity.

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VK
Storage Architect and Engineer at United Airlines

We use NetApp AFF to host all of our on-premises applications and data.

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MB
Specialist Senior at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use for this solution is NFS and fiber channel mounts for VMware and Solaris.

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FK
System Administrator at Bell Canada

Currently, we are leveraging AFF for our VMware environment solution. So, we use it as a storage for our customers and are leveraging it to provide a faster storage solution for VMware customers.

We are using it for block level based only storage, as of today.

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RC
Data Protection Engineering at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

This solution provides storage for our entire company.

We have a unified architecture with NAS and SAN from both NetApp ONTAP AFF clusters.

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PH
Network Professional at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

We use it for data storage for Citrix VDIs.

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Justin Mardis - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

NetApp AFF supports multi-tenant and private clouds.

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PS
Service manager at VST ECS

Our customers use the solution for its MetroCluster feature.

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MD
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our IT department has two AFF clusters, but we also install them for our customers. We deploy them for tier-one use cases, like virtual machines, databases, and anything that needs fast, hot data. 

We've recently started using NetApp's cloud solutions, but our German customers are still reluctant because of the security, data management, GDPR, etc. Now, we have our cloud that we can sell to customers with Meta products. Cloud backup and cloud tiering are the two primary ones, but we also sell Cloud Insights to some customers.  Customers need backup services, but they often lack a separate data center where they can store their backups. The cloud is the most natural way to store the backup.

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DG
System/Storage Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use for NetApp AFF is backup for our production. It's more for our database for all of our retail for Nordstrom. We've got to keep it running every day, so we've got to make sure that we have all the databases backed up for three years, or more.

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SM
Storage Administrator at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are in the process of moving to AWS and we are using this solution to help move all of our data to the cloud, using the tiering and other functionality.

We have approximately fifty AFF clusters spread across three locations.

We plan to use this solution for artificial intelligence and machine-learning applications, but we are still in the PoC right now. It is something that my team is working on.

Our DR and backup are done using SnapMirror.

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it_user1035522 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

VMware datastores over NFS for DL585 G7 hosts on a 10G switch.

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DS
Payload Integration at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

AFF is our primary source for our data centers. We use it for our multi-tenancy data center. We like the crypto erase function available on the SSDs and we needed the high performance, IOPs that you can get from SSDs.

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RC
Head of IT at Inacap

We use data storage for our big environment. It creates an environment where students and teachers can work together. 

We did the installation two months ago. Now, we are reviewing its affect on behavior over time, which has been incredible. We have less latency within all applications. 

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AM
Senior storage engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees

We use it for our VWware environment. We run virtual machines and our plan is to migrate all of them to the All Flash platform.

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SJ
AIX and Storage Specialist at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The first use case is having normal CIFS and NFS shares use Active Directory integration with antivirus integration. Another use case is for VMware VCF in a TKG environment using NFS and a SAN protocol.

I am implementing the NetApp product for customers. I deploy CIFS and NFS shares for file access purposes and block access for VMware infrastructures.

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TG
Enterprise Solutions Architect, Technology Infrastructure & Innovations at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case for this solution is machine learning.

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MV
SAN Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

NetApp is introducing All Flash FAS with the all-flash array. Our customers like performance, they don't want to deal with latency. Using an all-flash array, our customers get impact from performance.

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BM
Head of Infrastructure, Network & Security Management at Vos Logistics N.V.

We are using this product for performance and growth.

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VS
Storage Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case for NetApp AFF is performance-based applications. Whenever our customers complain about performance, we move their data to an all-flash system to improve it.  

We have our own data center and don't share our network with others.

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PH
Technical Lead at USAF

Our primary use case of this solution is for SAN block storage. 

We don't use AFF for artificial intelligence or machine learning applications.

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GR
Principal Engineer at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

My primary use case for All Flash FAS that we have is pretty much everything. It is the go-to storage device that we use for block fiber channel devices on our heavy SAP workloads as well as user base files and file shares for databases. 

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PK
Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Our primary use case for AFF is for databases.

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it_user805152 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case is availability, performance, bandwidth, and throughput with respect to our applications.

We are currently using an on-premise solution.

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it_user577449 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Biomedical System Services at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for medical systems.

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GR
System Administrator at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using it for storage.

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LR
Senior Data Center Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case of this solution is for our production storage array.

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DC
Tech Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case is enterprise storage for our email database system.

We have just been using on-premise. We are looking to move the workloads to the cloud, but right now it's just on-premise.

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TA
Chief Enterprise Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case for AFF is for all of the filers. We're also doing a lot of workloads for virtualization. All of our virtualization workloads are currently running on All Flash FAS.

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GW
Senior CI Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case that we have for NetApp's All Flash FAS is for on-premise storage that we've used for presenting LANs, NFS, and SIF shares for servers for analytics and ESX data storage.

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EA
Senior Systems Administrator at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We use it for high performance, block storage, and file storage. 

The highest performance need apps are usually deployed on AFF. We're using adaptive QoS to identify what applications require higher performance and moving those volumes over to the AFF.

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PH
Executive director IT Systems at MemorialCare Health System

We use it for electronic medical record storage.

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ST
Consulting Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case is escalating a more global performance, which wasn't achievable with the regular spinning drives. We wanted to have higher breakthrough performance with a flash-based solution using all SSD drives. 

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AB
Senior Manager of Product and Services at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are a multi-cloud provider and we use NetApp All Flash as the base for providing the cloud services.

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it_user527175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our primary use case for AFF is to host our internal file shares for all of our company's "F" drives, which is what we call them. All of our CIFS and NFS are hosted on our AFF system right now.

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SS
Data Delivery at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are it for CIFS, NFS, and NAS. We are also using it for the cloud environment.

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CM
Network Services Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for our EHR. We have 4,000 users who need to have access to a very large EHR called Epic. We are sharing a cache database through AIX servers. 

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SP
Technical manager at Macrovention

We have a range of customers, from manufacturing to oil & gas, in Malaysia. We have been using NetApp for quite some time, but now performance is a big issue for our customers, along with other challenges for them, so they are opting to go to All Flash.

NetApp is doing a good job of delivering to and satisfying customers. All Flash cloud technology has helped them a lot.

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CW
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

AFF is our complete storage solution. We use it for SIP shares and VMware volumes. 

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BS
IT Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

I primarily use the solution for asically all my main data for all my ESXi hosts.

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AH
Systems Management Engineer at a legal firm with 201-500 employees

The primary use case for AFF is for use in our production environment. Within our production environment, we have a number of different data stores that AFF serves. We use a number of protocols from NFS to CIFS, as well from the file system protocols, and in the block level we use iSCSI.

We are a fully on-prem business as far as data positioning data sets. 

We don't have real-time applications that we run in-house, being a law firm. The most important thing is the availability of our environments and applications that we serve to our client base. We don't have real-time applications that we could be measured in real tangible form that would make a huge difference for us. Nevertheless, the way it goes: the faster, the better; the more powerful, the better; and the more resources you can get from it, the better.

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PB
Storage Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We primarily utilize AFFs for engineering VDIs. We are utilizing it to host VDI and performance is the primary expectation from AFFs. We are satisfied with the product.

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DM
IT Director at a legal firm

We use this solution for back end storage of vSphere virtual machines over NFS.

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AH
Storage Architect

We use the solution for IBM and SQL workloads. 

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ME
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case of this solution is for its speed. We're using the AFF as a cache disk. We have terabytes of data that we have to move quickly off a system. The only way we could do that is with the 40 gig backbone that all-flash array provides and the speed of the disks.

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RS
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.

We have deployed NetApp AFF with four nodes; two of these are in our primary data center, and the remaining two are in the second data center. We are using Cluster Mode configurations.

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DB
Technical Director at CUSTOMERTIMES CORP
  • All flash
  • SAN and NAS server virtualization
  • Databases (OLTP and OLAP)
  • File shares
  • Test or development
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it_user732744 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Dhaka Bank Limited

A centralized storage solution for Telecom organizations. Where NetApp FAS 6200 was connected to HP-UX, AIX, Linux, VMware, and Windows, this storage is used by the OLTP solution (database and application) as well as a data warehouse application.  

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PY
Storage Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use NetApp AFF to support our VMware environment.

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AD
Senior Storage Engineer at HYUNDAI AUTOEVER AMERICA

We have been using the FAS series product, and AFF is pretty similar to the FAS products, as it still runs the ONTAP operating system. They are using AFF because that comes with all-flash disks, which gives us better performance with a smaller footprint. We use that mainly to start our block and NAS data.

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CJ
Sr Storage Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use NetApp AFF for file storage and VMware.

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RC
Head of IT at Inacap

Mixed sharing between Windows and Linux using CIFS and NFS is the best solution you can experiment with.

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ZM
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Whenever we face any issues with performance, particularly any performance with our high outreaching storage site, we are recommended to use an all-flash service, because we rely on our primary solution at all times. If it seem like there are issues, we have bring in different vendors as a buffer. We have adopted an all-flash primary solution with this use case.

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MW
Storage Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

We are using it for VMware and Hyper-V data stores.

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SB
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use this solution for in-house data.

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CO
IT Manager at Universo Online

Our primary use case is that we have two areas with AFF storage

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RA
Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it in the healthcare industry.

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VS
Senior Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are mostly using it for NAS, CIFS, and NFS protocols.

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EC
Cyber Security Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

It's, mainly it's for storage, we have various databases with different applications and we are using it just for storage, mainly as just a storage for our systems.

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AB
Consultor and Co-founder at OS4IT

We use it for different machines, Oracle Database, super server database, and a few BDI projects.

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CH
System Programmer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our primary use case for NetApp AFF is unstructured data. We set up it up for high availability and minimum downtime.

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TF
Senior Storage Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for data storage, applications, and CIFS shares.

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JS
Senior in technology and engineer at a marketing services firm

We use it for data storage.

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SL
Systems Engineer Manager at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

We do storage across the United States.

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TC
Data Center Engineer at a non-profit

We use it for typical data center workloads: Exchange, file shares, and SQL.

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MT
Infrastructure and Services Presales Consultant at I.D. GRUP S.A.

Shared storage for virtualized environments.

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CW
Sys Admin at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We use it for all of our VM storage.

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it_user874449 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have a multi-tenant shared solution that we use with Quality of Service to provide bare metal as a service and IP storage to our customers. We keep it very simple. It's an automated solution which customers configure on a portal and then it automatically configures storage for them.

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it_user1013601 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at ICTeam

VMware multi-tenant and SnapMirror destination, multi customers' filesystem too, no problem with multi AD and domain

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MD
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The primary use case is for customers who need absolute low latency and have low latency in their workloads. They need maximum performance in their virtualization and file storage environments.

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ML
Storage Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case for AFF is for file storage.

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it_user797502 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Using NetApp AFF 8060 in two-node MetroCluster configuration.
  • Used for NAS protocols only. 
  • CIFS and NFS provisioned through several SVMs (vFilers). 
  • Shares for normal company office files, Oracle Middleware binaries, Citrix profiles, and more.
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MO
Consulting Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use it for storage for VMs and backup units.

We use this solution on a daily basis. In Sweden, typically small to medium-sized companies use this solution.

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