NetApp FAS Series Primary Use Case
I usually use NetApp FAS Series for the shares, CIFS share, replication, SnapMirror, retaining volumes, LUNs, and other things.
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Hitesh Thappa
Senior Cloud System Engineer at Atos Poland
Currently, our usual use case with NetApp FAS Series is only archival. If a customer wants NFS storage, we offer them the NetApp FAS Series because many customers want to do backups on NFS, so we offer it as an NFS solution. Apart from ASF, we offer NFS on NetApp FAS Series, so it can be used for both archive and backup purposes, depending on customer requirements.
Regarding the technologies we use inside NetApp, they include Snapmeter and SnapLock, along with normal storage allocation.
View full review »NetApp has allowed us to get all of our storage onto one platform across various facilities, and it's eased the management of that storage.
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There are many different use cases, but the main use case for NetApp, as I know it, is NAS. It is among the top contenders when it comes to providing a robust solution for establishing a connection between applications and storage. NetApp is probably first or second in this field.
View full review »We are a big unstructured file data storage company. We use NetApp solutions like AFF for our unstructured data. NetApp is primarily for provisioning storage and maintaining unstructured data.
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Sergio Cardone
Technological Consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
We sold a very big solution this month. We sold two AFF 1K, A1K, and R2 with high availability with ONTAP on-premises to a large financial company.
We are now working on an upgrade for another company. We are working on an upgrade to NetApp FAS Series 9150. They have a fiber channel MetroCluster, so they cannot move to an IP MetroCluster.
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Lori Slutz
System Administrator at Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc.
We use the solution to store all kinds of data. It's an efficient way to store data in a centralized place instead of trying to store it in individual locations.
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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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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.
View full review »We use the solution for multipurpose VMs.
View full review »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.
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Muhammad AlihyderBhuiyan
Head of IT Operations at NCC BANK LIMITED
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.
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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 it for the production system with high workload.
View full review »We use the solution for its unified features of file and block protocols in a heterogeneous environment.
View full review »We offer the solution to customers with unified storage without any gateway.
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MartinSandell
Senior Storage Engineer at Orange Business
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.
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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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.
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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Lori Slutz
System Administrator at Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc.
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.
View full review »The product is used for multitenancy and backups. We use it for different solutions.
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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.
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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 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.
Our primary use case was NFS. It was used for designing chips.
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 »We use the solution for data storage. We are customers of NetApp and I'm the assistant director of our company.
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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.
View full review »We use it for storing our database data and for our virtual machines.
We are using NetApp FAS for some encrypted projects and to provide home direction for our users.
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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.
View full review »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 mainly using this solution for file sharing, virtualization, and database storage.
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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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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.
View full review »We use it for storage and it has performed fine, but now we need to upgrade.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
View full review »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.
Enterprise Storage for:
- Block and file
- SQL Server LUNs
- Exchange LUNs
- VM Storage.
Backup of above via Snap products.
View full review »The primary use case is for standard CIFS/SMB file storage for Windows Clients in an ADS environment.
View full review »NAS part of standardized virtualization platform, ranging from size from 15TB on-site solution to more than 500TB twin core datacenter.
Creating a DR site using SnapMirror technology from NetApp.
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.
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.
I use NetApp FAS Series to store files and for VSI and VDI.
View full review »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.
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NetApp FAS Series
June 2025

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