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NetApp FAS Series pros and cons

Vendor: NetApp

4.3 out of 5

111 reviews
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Pros & Cons summary

NetApp FAS Series offers robust data management with features like SnapMirror, Snapshot, and SnapVault, ensuring security and compliance. It provides stability, scalability, and supports both SAN and NAS environments. Users commend its cost-effective storage and integration ease with public cloud components but criticize inadequate documentation for API automation, complex upgrades, and high pricing. Technical support needs improvement, and migration challenges affect its appeal despite its strong performance capabilities.

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PROS

NetApp FAS Series provides robust data management features including SnapMirror, Snapshot, and SnapVault, ensuring data security and compliance.

Highly stable and reliable, NetApp FAS Series offers excellent performance and scalability, especially under heavy load.

With the ability to handle both SAN and NAS environments simultaneously, NetApp FAS Series delivers versatility in storage solutions.

Customers praise its cost-effective storage capabilities, including integrated snapshot and backup features for all performance levels, including all-flash.

NetApp FAS Series is known for its ease of setup and maintenance, offering seamless integration with public cloud components and enabling automation via API.

CONS

NetApp FAS Series lacks sufficient documentation for automating APIs, making it challenging for customers.

Upgrades in NetApp FAS Series can be complex and often lead to bugs, impacting system performance and reliability.

The migration process from 7-Mode to Clustered Data ONTAP in NetApp FAS Series needs significant improvement as users face challenges.

NetApp FAS Series has persistent issues with high pricing, making it less attractive to cost-sensitive users and often compared unfavorably to competitors.

Technical support for NetApp FAS Series requires improvement, especially in regions where partners are not available, impacting user experience.

NetApp FAS Series Pros review quotes

GM

Analyst at Sutherland Global Services

Jul 6, 2026

The data management features of Data ONTAP are highly valuable for my organization in terms of data security and compliance, and with SnapMirror, Snapshot, and SnapVault in place I have not experienced data loss or unavailability, which has helped prevent escalations and allowed me to resolve issues within one to two hours while maintaining data integrity.

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Srikanth Purushothaman

DIRECTOR at Vellore Online Systems

Oct 8, 2025

An advantage we've seen with NetApp FAS Series is that snapshots provide very rapid backup and fast recovery.

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Shailendra Choudhary

Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 4, 2026

The integration with cloud environments has benefited my customers' storage strategy by providing cloud volume ONTAP.

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reviewer2689182

System Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 9, 2025

In NetApp FAS Series, I appreciate the visibility.

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HT

Senior Cloud System Engineer at Atos Poland

Apr 17, 2025

The biggest advantage that makes NetApp FAS Series better is that we can use RAID technology on the storage.

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reviewer1395864

Pre-Sales Director France, Belgium and Luxembourg at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 5, 2025

One important feature for customers is its ease of use and continuity, enabling seamless usage across on-premise and cloud environments.

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reviewer2560449

Infrastructure Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 24, 2024

It gives us the performance we need and the reliability we need to make sure that our systems have the uptime that our internal customers demand.

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SC

Technological Consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Mar 19, 2025

It helps us meet all customer requirements. Customers have been using NetApp for many years. They are very satisfied with NetApp and continue to use NetApp and upgrade to new solutions.

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AR

IT Services at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 25, 2024

The ONTAP tools make managing VMware easier.

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reviewer2560956

IT Infrastructure Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 25, 2024

It's enabled us to allow admins across the IT organization to more easily manage their own subset of data within our organization.

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NetApp FAS Series Cons review quotes

GM

Analyst at Sutherland Global Services

Jul 6, 2026

Regarding its pricing, I believe it is high. I utilize both HDD and SSD, where SSDs are more cost-friendly, yet HDDs are higher in cost, making it not very affordable but still useful.

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Srikanth Purushothaman

DIRECTOR at Vellore Online Systems

Oct 8, 2025

The main area for improvement for NetApp FAS Series is price. Unfortunately, in India, NetApp price clearance takes longer than EMC.

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Shailendra Choudhary

Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 4, 2026

There is room for improvement when it comes to response time and first-level support quality.

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reviewer2689182

System Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 9, 2025

It was not possible to have a custom user inside ONTAP without the delete permission to delete the volume. We wanted others to be able to create a SnapMirror and volume, but have no volume deletion permission. In the newest version, it seems to already be in place, but there was a bug enabling this one in older versions 9.11, 9.10, or earlier.

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HT

Senior Cloud System Engineer at Atos Poland

Apr 17, 2025

Regarding the stability of NetApp FAS Series, I would rate it seven or seven point five because there are frequent panic messages.

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reviewer1395864

Pre-Sales Director France, Belgium and Luxembourg at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 5, 2025

One area that needs improvement is the hyper-converged solution. Although NetApp has a solution, compared to Nutanix, it falls short.

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reviewer2560449

Infrastructure Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 24, 2024

When we were going through all the MFA hardening and the anti-ransomware setup, I gave some feedback to our executive. The MFA process for getting that set up on the AFF systems was cumbersome compared to some of our other systems.

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SC

Technological Consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Mar 19, 2025

The adoption of the cloud in Argentina is very slow. Customers do not move most of their applications to the cloud. Moving applications is a simple task, but the cost is a concern in Argentina. There is an opportunity there for NetApp with Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

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AR

IT Services at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 25, 2024

It's hard to find in-person training that fits our schedule in our area. They offer a lot of online training, but we need somewhere to go because we can't really get away from the office.

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reviewer2560956

IT Infrastructure Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 25, 2024

A big problem with physical appliances is that updating them can be a bit burdensome.

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