Senior Storage Administrator at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 10, 2023
The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery.
Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication.
Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems.
Computer System Administrator at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 27, 2020
For us, the greatest aspect of the solution is the fact that it just runs. It is amazingly resilient. That's very important to us, because we are basically, with some exceptions, have a 24/7 operation.
IT Project and Infrastructure Service Manager at CEDSIF - Ministry of Finance
Mar 3, 2022
The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage.
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Jul 16, 2018
One of the most valuable features offered is double-parity RAID, which guarantees that your data will stay intact. We're also able to provision storage and monitor which ones are really consuming storage.
Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability.
Senior Storage Administrator at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 10, 2023
NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution.
Computer System Administrator at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 27, 2020
The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth.
Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud.
IT Project and Infrastructure Service Manager at CEDSIF - Ministry of Finance
Mar 3, 2022
I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution.
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Jul 16, 2018
It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives.
The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution.