NetApp FAS Series Primary Use Case
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Mustapha CHILAH
Directeur Adjoint Des Systèmes d'Informations& Transition at Mairie de Lunel
We use it for VMware ESXi, CEFS for shared user storage, and we use it for backup of all of these.
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Tonya Wegner
Senior Storage Administrator at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
We have a variety of things. We have, like, user home drives. We have just a lot of human-managed unstructured data. We also have a data store for an AWS system, which is an automated workflow system. We store millions, if not actually billions of images. We've got stuff all over the place, but we also host storage for Linux and Unix servers that have NFS mounts for multiple applications. So it's a hodgepodge of a lot of different things.
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reviewer1359462
Principal Architect Infrastructure Solutions at a recruiting/HR firm with 501-1,000 employees
We are a solution provider and NetApp FAS is one of the infrastructure-related products that we implement for our clients. Our customers' use cases vary, where some of them use it as a backup target and others use it for the general workload. The primary use case is probably for general workload.
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NetApp FAS Series
April 2024
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I provide NetApp FAS Series to my customers. Currently, I have installed the solution for a couple of broadcast customers or TV channels. Since TV channels are 24/7 on air, redundancy, availability, and stability are very important. We are a system integrator company, and for TV channels, cloud operations, ingest operations, live editing, performance, and stability are very important.
View full review »I used the solution in our company to check Bash shell, specifically from when my organization started to function. For managing patches, the best storage my company prefers is NetApp FAS Series.
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Elanchezhian Adhieksavan
Manager, System at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The tool is used for multiple protocols like NFS and iSCSI.
View full review »Primarily, we use them as backup targets. Additionally, we utilize them as archives or for slower-performing tasks, serving as masters for our customers.
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CassimAmod
NetApp Pre Sales Specialist at Altron
NetApp FAS Series are used for sharing environments.
View full review »We are using the NetApp FAS3240 as an integrated solution with a FlexPod that is used to host virtual machines, databases, and applications. It's a large solution with resilience and good performance; to date, we haven't had any complaints about it.
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Mahesh Duraphe
Storage Administrator at Softcell Technologies Limited
I've been involved in daily operations like ratio to volume and aggregate monitoring. I've also worked on the ONTAP 9 manager, as well as an ONTAP upgrade of the operating system. I've also done a small implementation along with my colleague.
The use cases depend on the customer's specific needs. Factors like workload, legal requirements, and desired protocols would determine if FAS is a good fit.
For example, if the customer has a large database workload, we might suggest AFF instead. But for most other cases, we can recommend FAS because it's more economical compared to AWS.
View full review »We use the solution for its unified features of file and block protocols in a heterogeneous environment.
View full review »The product is used for multitenancy and backups. We use it for different solutions.
View full review »We offer the solution to customers with unified storage without any gateway.
View full review »My use case for the NetApp FAS Series is that it's a repository for the VM (virtual machine) and CIFS (common internet file system) share, or network share.
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Phyo Pyah Soe
Service manager at VST ECS
Clients like the fact that FAS systems can boot from SAN and Boot volumes.
View full review »We use it for storing our database data and for our virtual machines.
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FElmc Carl Palapal
Sr. Infra. Support Egineer / Tech .Consultant at CANAR OFFICE SYSTEMS
My customers use the solution for production servers, databases, and Oracle applications. I did not deploy Oracle. I deal with only the storage and server side of the product.
View full review »We use it for the production system with high workload.
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reviewer1366854
Computer System Administrator at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution for keeping our information reliable. In our case specifically, here at the operations location, we've got a MetroCluster for redundancy.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
We have deployed a four-node cluster to host multiple services like NFS, CIFS, FCP, and iSCSI with SnapMirror enabled across the cluster.
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reviewer1527378
Information Technology IT Manager Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use case was NFS. It was used for designing chips.
The NetApp FAS series is unified storage and can be used for the NAS or SAN environments. We had a customer that needed multiple protocols.
I use NetApp FAS Series for storage consolidation, database management, performance, and data protection. We also use it for unified environments where you run multiple protocols. You can run it through a FAS or an AFF system. Our core applications are running on it, so it's always up.
View full review »NAS for the enterprise including unstructured data, EPIC Systems + the other 3,520 applications. I love those innovative healthcare data solutions that let me securely manage vast amounts of patient data (32.9 PB), use and share it enterprise-wide, and gain efficiency of scale through cloud solutions and virtualization.
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Paul Macharia
ICT-I Manager at KTDA
We used NetApp FAS for both block and file sharing but we have now switched to another product by HP.
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reviewer1586073
Broadcast Technology Director at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
We are using NetApp FAS Series on all of your sites.
We use it in four major systems for productions in broadcast TV channels.
I can say that we use it in Production and Archive environments according to the model and disk structure.
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GeorgeAjayi
CEO at BDPR Technologies Limited
Most of my customers utilize this solution in the banking sector. They use it for their banking applications. They use it as their main storage.
View full review »We use the product for SAN, block, and file storage. We use it for consolidation or sandbox storage in our VMware environment. We treat it as a sandbox-only box and leverage features from VMware for DC and DR.
View full review »We use the solution as a home directory for our HPC cluster. The users store important and reliable data on it. We are not using it for IO-intensive operations but as a reliable storage.
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Albie Bokingkito Jr.
Storage and System Engineer at Thales Services SAS
We recently upgraded our NetApp environment from 7-Mode to Clustered ONTAP v9.3. Primary use cases are NFS and CIFS. NFSs are used for VMware data store while the CIFSs are for corporate file sharing.
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Wouter Coppens
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We use NetApp as our primary storage. Because we are a system integrator, we managed more than 100 data petabytes of data of our customers.
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reviewer1215186
Assistant Director, IT at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We use the solution for data storage. We are customers of NetApp and I'm the assistant director of our company.
View full review »Creating a DR site using SnapMirror technology from NetApp.
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Akram Omer
IT Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I use NetApp FAS Series for servers. I have a lot of virtual servers connected through it using a Brocade switch.
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reviewer1451304
IT Manager at a maritime company with 51-200 employees
We are mainly using this solution for file sharing, virtualization, and database storage.
View full review »Enterprise Storage for:
- Block and file
- SQL Server LUNs
- Exchange LUNs
- VM Storage.
Backup of above via Snap products.
View full review »NAS part of standardized virtualization platform, ranging from size from 15TB on-site solution to more than 500TB twin core datacenter.
I am using NetApp FAS Series for file backups.
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Phyo Pyah Soe
Service manager at VST ECS
Our company is based in Myanmar. I'm formerly a system engineer and we are a NetApp service provider company as well.
We are using NetApp FAS for some encrypted projects and to provide home direction for our users.
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EboHagan
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The primary use case is for regular databases and file systems. So far it has been good. The performance is solid, it's robust, availability is solid.
It is used as filer, for centralized file sharing. You use it, for example, for network drives from your Windows file.
Performance is very good. It's reasonably fast, probably not the fastest.
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reviewer906021
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I use NetApp FAS Series to store files and for VSI and VDI.
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Aklilu Shiferaw
System Engineer at Symbol Technologies PLC
We use this solution as general unified SAN storage for different workloads.
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Sanjiv Khushu
Chief Evangelist & CEO at Evantage IT Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
Used SnapMirror for replication and DR. It's a good case for a storage-based DR. Good results on RPO and RTO.
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SenNetAd299025
Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product has been pretty stable. Though we have had a few issues, not on the ones that we are going to replace, but on a couple of other ones. On the ones that we are going to replace, we usually use them for file storage and Exchange. The others are mainly used for interface and iSCSI.
View full review »The primary use case is for standard CIFS/SMB file storage for Windows Clients in an ADS environment.
View full review »We use it for storage and it has performed fine, but now we need to upgrade.
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NetApp FAS Series
April 2024
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