Qumulo Reviews

Qumulo is a distributor system that represents names based on similar tools. We had a few petabytes of data, and certain application teams were working with it during the rollout to understand what we wanted to use it for. It is basically set up for some of the database and application teams.

Qumulo has improved the way my organization functions in several ways. One of the biggest improvements was authentication, which is a security feature for SMB and FTP. We set up the clusters for Qumulo, and the main spaces are accessed seamlessly for Windows and Linux, which we were using it for. That layer of authentication was great. Depending on who you are working with, we were using either standard LDAP or another directory. I work with a number of different compute end users in connecting the data files. For example, with it being a NAS, we were able to move beyond traditional NAS limitations. Different groups could access these files and authenticate through Active Directory, Windows, Mac, or Linux, and the security feature really helped a lot as far as authentication.

The most valuable feature in Qumulo is the scaling feature, as Qumulo file data platform is optimized for scale, so we could support petabytes of data, billions of files, millions of operations, and thousands of users.

The creators of Qumulo were the ones who created Isilon, and I had a conversation with them, so any of the features within Isilon may need tweaking, but I think they resolved it here. In the year that I worked with it, I did not see anything that I had an issue with. The security is great, and it works with cloud technologies, being a hands-based tool, so you can use it with AWS or Microsoft Azure. It programs very easily. There are REST APIs, and there is a cloud connection. The management and program layer is made up of three capabilities: API, the command line, and a visual interface. In the year that I worked with it and brought it in, I think it has been effective.

The only thing I would like to see added to Qumulo is for the interface to improve visually, more in line with vCenter, but that is just my thought. Overall, I appreciate it.

I have been using Qumulo for about a year. Qumulo is an application that is now owned by HP, and I was working with HP for a contract for a year, so I was involved with the implementation of it and also managing it.

I would rate the stability of Qumulo as a nine. It did not have any issues off the top.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate the scalability of Qumulo as a nine. I really would. I remember the version we used was 2.1 for Windows. I would give it a nine. I was really impressed with it as soon as I saw it, and it immediately made me think of Isilon. It is really scalable and easy to use for our end users. You can lock down files for a particular individual to use.

I would rate their technical support as a ten, as they are very quick to respond. They respond via email or phone calls, working with the individuals who are implementing it and how it would work with our regular users who will call. They respond rather quickly. For me, it is a ten, and I do not believe any of the application team owners had too many problems.

The initial deployment of Qumulo is actually pretty straightforward. We worked with the Qumulo team, and this was an individual company that HP purchased, so they brought it in, set everything up, and walked us through it. They explained that it takes some effort, and of course, we had to set up the security on our end for them to be able to access the setup things on the servers. After that, they walked us through what they were doing and how to use it, so it is pretty straightforward.

I have seen a return on investment with Qumulo. With a particular database and application team users, they were happy with it, the access they had, and how they can lock down files. There is a main manager of Qumulo within the groups, and you can set it up. Qumulo is a revenue competitor with Isilon, NetApp, Ampere Stewart, and PowerScale, so this is HP's purchase to compete with those particular companies. They are pretty happy with it rolling out in-house, and they intend to expand it to other groups. I appreciate what I am seeing; it is a great tool.

I have plans to increase the usage of Qumulo in the future. We have brought it in to work with specific teams or test groups and test users, seeing how they enjoy it and how they feel about it. We have not had any complaints when we rolled it out. In certain instances, with AWS users, we have had to bring in a few kinks, maybe connectivity issues, that were resolved. It is a new rollout, but we intend to expand it in-house.

I was not involved on the pricing side of Qumulo, but with HP bringing it in, my thought is they see a great deal of potential for it as it is competing with Dell EMC and NetApp in this area. So they felt that purchasing this company would make them quite competitive.

My advice for someone who would use Qumulo is to probably go to their site, do some research, and communicate with some of the individuals or online salespeople to give you an idea. There are probably some guides you can obtain. I think a lot of admins would appreciate this tool, as it has the API and tools to work with the cloud, and the support team is pretty solid. You can create SMB shares and NFS shares, and it works with AD and LDAP identity services. I would say to reach out to human level support, go to their website, and do a little research on it. I think they would appreciate it.

Overall, I would rate Qumulo a nine. I appreciate that it does snapshots, and you could use replication. It works with Qumulo shift and works with Amazon S3. The object store replication enables any of Qumulo file data platforms to treat a cloud object storage service as Amazon S3 as a suitable replication target, so users can copy from Qumulo namespace to a cloud store. That is great for storage, and it has quotas to enable users to control the growth of any of the subsets. I think it is something that anyone in AWS and the cloud technologies would appreciate. The file system is expandable, grows quickly, and has failure recovery. So it is a great application. I would advise anyone who is interested in it to contact the support team, and they can set up a meeting, such as a Zoom session, and walk them through it by sharing screens to give them an idea of it. HP purchased Qumulo to compete with EMC's Isilon and NetApp. So it is a solid tool. I work with both of those solutions, and what I am seeing immediately reminded me of Isilon as soon as I saw it, so I knew what was going on there. My overall rating for Qumulo is nine out of ten.

My main use case for Qumulo is primarily in healthcare imaging and media entertainment. It is the file-heavy workload for enterprises, and it is used extensively in healthcare. One of the companies I worked with, NTT, manages a lot of healthcare infrastructures.

A specific example of how Qumulo was used in one of those healthcare scenarios is that we used it extensively for enterprise workloads, particularly healthcare imaging.

We used Qumulo for snapshots and replication as well, and real-time analytics per file.

The best features Qumulo offers include linear scale-out, real-time analytics, multi-protocol cloud-native replication for AWS and Azure, API-driven management, and snapshots and replication, which are particularly useful in the healthcare industry and other sectors in media and entertainment.

Real-time analytics in Qumulo help me see what is going on within the environment, keeping me ahead of things.

You can use Qumulo SQS, cluster deployment, and node expansion, which are excellent for scaling out if needed.

Qumulo has positively impacted my organization by making it much easier. The snapshots and replication, along with the cloud-native replication running on HP and Dell, work on Azure and AWS, which helps considerably, especially with those being the two biggest cloud-driven systems.

Although Qumulo has been around for several years and I think they have a very good product, I cannot think of anything offhand that needs improvement. I appreciate that I can use it to check whether copies for migrations are saturating any clusters using Qumulo API scripts. As time progresses, all things improve, but nothing stands out as needing urgent attention.

Any improvements I might suggest would be nitpicking from an individual perspective. However, looking at how it has simplified processes, I appreciate the snapshots, replication, and API-driven management it offers within a cloud environment. Overall, it is a solid tool that works very well on-premises and in cloud environments.

I started working with Qumulo almost four years ago.

Qumulo is very stable. Stability is a must, or else it defeats the purpose of using it. I can confidently say it is highly stable.

Qumulo has exceptional scalability. It scales out, which is one of the reasons it is gaining popularity and competes well in the unstructured data market, much in the way Isilon does. For storage admins or those involved with disaster recovery, the scalability model is critical, as every node adds performance and capacity without any single metadata controller, eliminating performance bottlenecks within the head node. This linear scale allows for multi-petabyte workloads, which is essential for both media and entertainment as well as healthcare's image management.

My experience with Qumulo's customer support is that they are quick to respond. Being relatively new in this arena, they must ensure their customer support is solid to compete with established players in NetApp. My feedback is that their customer support is excellent.

I would rate Qumulo's customer support a 10. They quickly respond to my inquiries, and I have direct access to Qumulo engineers, which is invaluable. These professionals possess deep expertise in cloud deployments and NAS migrations, ensuring that I am speaking with knowledgeable individuals. If they do not have an answer readily available, they perform the necessary research to assist.

I previously used Isilon, which I worked with for a considerable amount of time. It was a substantial NAS file solution, and I can easily see the parallels between Isilon and Qumulo. When Qumulo's sales team first introduced me to the product, I recognized its similarity to Dell EMC's Isilon, leading me to learn that the makers of Qumulo were the same individuals behind Isilon.

Although I cannot share specific metrics related to return on investment, I can say that Qumulo made workloads much easier, especially within AWS. I believe this also applies to Azure. The capabilities for handling high throughput unstructured workloads and executing petabyte-scale migrations are paramount for media and entertainment or healthcare, where they can reduce the burden of long nights spent on migrations.

Before choosing Qumulo, I evaluated other options including NetApp, specifically NetApp ONTAP, and Pure Storage's FlashBlade, which were both good and I have no complaints about them.

I believe Qumulo is great for a storage engineer because it allows me to validate migration throughput, which is part of the real-time analytics. That helps considerably during migrations. I frequently monitor hot directories and optimize cutover, particularly with Windows, and handle petabyte-scale migrations. I also track throughput metrics including read and write per node, per client, and directory, along with protocol throughput for NFS or SMB.

Regarding Qumulo's AI capabilities, I think they are doing a very good job with governance and security.

The accuracy and reliability of Qumulo's AI output are great, especially when looking at AI infrastructure storage. It helps with cyber recovery in healthcare due to the growing ransomware issue. I think they are doing a fine job, and as AI quickly advances in various directions, I feel Qumulo will get even better with it. Their AI is extremely useful for migration engineering, ransomware detection, performance tuning, and determining hot file and non-directed detections. It provides insights on client behavior and predicts performance bottlenecks, giving engineers a clear perspective, along with tiering recommendations. Overall, their AI is solid and strong, and I anticipate they will grow even stronger with further developments in AI.

My advice for others looking into using Qumulo is to ensure that it fits their needs, especially in media entertainment or large cloud environments that require handling petabytes of data with the ability to scale out. It is crucial to have a clear understanding of your requirements, particularly in environments like AWS or Azure. I am unsure about Google, but I know Azure is supported along with AWS. Therefore, if you are part of a media entertainment company or healthcare organization dealing with large quantities of images, it is worth considering how Qumulo integrates with your on-premises, hybrid, or cloud infrastructure. I give Qumulo a review rating of 9.

Qumulo serves as our NAS platform, providing our customers with a central enterprise file storage platform where they can keep and share files. It hosts large volumes of unstructured data, home directories, project shares, and application data for our customers.

The best features Qumulo offers include a very simple management interface, good visibility into storage utilization and file analytics, and it is scalable and reliable.

I find myself appreciating the file analytics the most because our customers continually ask about the unstructured data they have, such as how many files they have, how many volumes they exist, and which user is consuming how much storage. Those kinds of analytics are difficult to obtain once we have petabytes of data.

Qumulo has positively impacted my organization by simplifying storage management while providing a single, scalable platform, reducing administrative efforts, making storage growth easier to manage, and allowing users to experience consistent performance. Visibility into storage consumption also helps with capacity planning. We have definitely seen reduced administration effort, faster provisioning of new shares, better visibility into utilization, and high availability.

Qumulo can be improved with more competitive licensing and pricing, enhanced historical analytics, and additional automation capabilities using APIs.

I have not given a rating of ten because there are some improvements Qumulo can implement. Some services are not at par with competitors today, and services such as pricing, licensing, and reporting can be better. Hybrid cloud data mobility can also be improved. However, as a file storage platform, it performs significantly better in most other areas.

I have been using Qumulo for about two years.

Stability has been good with Qumulo.

Scalability is one of the strongest features. Expanding storage capacity is straightforward, and the platform handles growth with minimal disruptions.

Customer support has been responsive, and most issues have been resolved within reasonable timeframes, although response times for lower priority cases could sometimes be faster.

We previously evaluated solutions from Dell EMC, including Isilon, PowerScale, and traditional NAS platforms, as well as NetApp before choosing Qumulo.

We have seen a return on investment in the reduction of storage administration effort, simplified management, and the ability to scale without major infrastructure redesign, which have delivered a positive return over time.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was straightforward with vendor assistance. The licensing is simple to understand, and although the pricing is on the premium side, the overall experience was good. However, cost remains one area that could be more competitive.

The advice I would give to others looking to use Qumulo is to evaluate other platforms as well, evaluate the cost upfront before choosing a solution, conduct testing of all solutions you are evaluating within your budget, and choose the best one according to performance and cost. I give this product a rating of eight.

My main use case for Qumulo is for storage. This is a research organization where we have in-house storage capability where we store all the company data and research data, so we are using Qumulo for that.

One of the best things I love about Qumulo is the performance and the support available. They are easy to reach, and you can send them a Slack message with Level 3 engineers available to help you within seconds.

We use Qumulo on a day-to-day basis, and there are no specific examples of how it stood out, but it is robust, and we did not have any problems, and no problems is a good sign in IT.

Qumulo can do many more things, and the team at Qumulo is also adding new features and capabilities to it.

There are other capabilities of Qumulo which we are planning to use in the future. Basically, I forgot the name, but it gives you the opportunity to create another Qumulo instance in Microsoft Azure and have another copy there, so in case of disaster, you have another copy in the cloud available which you can use.

I have not used the AI capability of Qumulo as of now, so I cannot comment on its governance and security.

I have not used the AI capability of Qumulo, so I cannot comment on its accuracy and reliability of output.

I have been working in my current role for the last seven to eight years.

Qumulo is stable.

Qumulo's scalability is pretty good.

Qumulo customer support is the best. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate the customer support a 10.

I did not previously use a different solution before Qumulo. We used IBM, but it was not bad; it was just out of life.

The pricing setup cost and everything was the lowest compared to other competitors, and the service being offered and the ongoing support is tremendous.

Currently, Qumulo is deployed as an on-premises infrastructure, and an HPE engineer helped us with the data migration. We are also exploring the hybrid environment.

I have seen a return on investment.

The pricing setup cost and everything was the lowest compared to other competitors.

All the other available options in the market at that time were pretty expensive with a similar amount of storage being provided or similar solutions being offered, so there is a huge difference in price.

I would rate Qumulo a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. I am really satisfied with the service being offered, and it is basically value for the money. We are exploring Microsoft Azure for our hybrid environment. Please explore this option for sure; this is one of the best solutions available in the market, and even though maybe not many are using it, it is worth exploring. My overall review rating for Qumulo is 10.

We use Qumulo for end-user storage and some application storage as well.

Qumulo has helped our organization concerning computer storage and speed. The performance and reliability have gone up as well. There is not nearly as much outage because we can easily set every update onto the second cluster. We experience just a split second of downtime, and our end users don't experience downtime, which is a lot better than what we used to have.

The most valuable features of Qumulo are its rolling updates and all-day availability. No failover is available in Qumulo by default, but we discussed it with our Qumulo contact and enabled a failover. If we have a disaster with our file server, nothing is recoverable. However, with Kumolo, we have a failover and a second cluster standing dormant.

Initially, the failover was supposed to be implemented in Qumulo itself. This failed to happen mid-case, so we had to devise a middleman solution. It was not the cleanest of solutions, but we did get something that worked. Some anti-theft permissions do not transfer well to Qumulo.

I have been using Qumulo for a year and a half.

Qumulo is a stable solution.

We have a development cluster running, and we tested adding a third cluster or a few external nodes just in case. It turned out to be quite easy. The new nodes automatically present themselves to the existing cluster. It was just a matter of picking them up and helping them in.

At the moment, about 150 users are using Qumulo. Once we are fully finished, we'll be up in the 1,000 to 2,000 range. We have quite a large user base.

So far, Qumulo's technical support has been very responsive and extremely helpful.

Before Qumulo, we were using Windows Server. We switched to Qumulo because Windows Server got a little bit old and provided no high availability for a company of our size.

We took a month to deploy Qumulo. We chose a vendor, and then it's a matter of flashing the Qumulo flow commands. After they deliver the Qumulo quite node version, it's just syncing up all the nodes into a cluster, and the rest is handled quite easily and automatically.

We had to wait about eight to nine months for the hardware to be delivered. Before we could even start thinking about deployment, everything from networks, which are the nodes themselves, took quite a while, and this wasn't Qumulo's fault. This was more of a supply issue.

Qumulo requires some maintenance, mainly the updates and upkeep of scripts.

We are working with the latest version of Qumulo. Planning is key. We took multiple months to plan everything, which was barely enough.

Overall, I rate Qumulo an eight out of ten.

We are using Qumulo to store live organization materials. For example, from Disney, Warner Bros, etcetera. Additionally, for online storage. I checked the quality of the media and would send it to the vendor.

Since using Qumulo our work at our company has been quicker and more effective.

The most valuable features of Qumulo are the ease of management and special permissions that are quick to enable. The overall performance of the solution is good.

The support for iMac and protocols should be improved, not all features are available.

I have been using Qumulo for approximately two and a half years.

Qumulo is stable.

The solution is scalable. You only have to add new nodes and clusters for space.

We have 15,000 using the solution.

We have petabytes of data in our environment.

The support is easy to get a hold of them. They have 24-hour-a-day support.

I was using Dell EMC Isilon, but it was outdated, so we switched to Qumulo.

The initial setup of Qumulo was easy with the expert we had hired.

We have to install the clusters and switches for the full installation of Qumulo.

The full process can take two to three hours.

We used an expert engineer to help us with the implementation of the solution.

We have received a return on investment using Qumulo.

We evaluated cloud storage and other services. However, our main partner suggested we use Qumulo.

The solution requires general monthly maintenance.

I would suggest to others to consider this solution if they need quick assess memory. It might be too quick for regular users.

I rate Qumulo a nine out of ten.

Our primary purpose for utilizing Qumulo was to provide a file-sharing platform for our marketing department, which also served as an archive for their videos, pictures, and other assets related to past events and marketing campaigns. They had accumulated a significant amount of older data, which they accessed through this platform, while also utilizing it as their current working file-sharing system.

Qumulo served as a file-sharing tool that stored our data across two clusters, one located at our production site and the other at our DR site. We implemented replication to ensure the protection of our data. All of our users, including those in the marketing department who primarily used Macs, were able to access the shared files. In essence, Qumulo functioned solely as a means of file storage.

The most valuable feature of Qumulo is the ability to share files and reliability.

One aspect of Qumulo that I hoped to see improved was its software upgrade process, which did see significant progress during my usage. Initially, upgrading the software resulted in several minutes of system downtime. However, by the time I departed last summer, the downtime had reduced to mere ten seconds. Although I am unsure if Qumulo has yet achieved a completely outage-free upgrade, I simply performed the upgrades early in the morning before the marketing department began its workday, so any downtime was inconsequential.

I have been using Qumulo for approximately three years.

I rate the stability of Qumulo a nine out of ten.

It has been easy to grow and add new clusters.

I rate the scalability of Qumulo an eight out of ten.

The support I received was excellent.

I rate the support of Qumulo an eight out of ten.

Positive

The initial deployment was straightforward.

The price of Qumulo is reasonable. 

When we evaluated other options the reasonable price of Qumulo was one of the factors of why we choose it.

My advice to others would be for them to try the solution out.

I rate Qumulo an eight out of ten.

We used it as a sort of centralized media storage on-prem. We only use the hardware on-premises at the moment.

Mainly cost savings on the network level, as we no longer have to scan different file systems since it's all on one Qumulo cluster now.

The valuable features include ease of use, the ability to update without downtime and speed, particularly IO speed in the storage and file systems.

In the next release, I would like to see maybe the ability to have more control at a terminal level of the file system using more standard UNIX commands.

I have been using Qumulo for the last seven months. 

It is a very stable product. I never faced any issues. It's been very reliable.

It is a highly scalable solution. There are around 200 users in my company. Moreover, it is very easy to maintain. 

The customer service and support team is very good. It is really easy to reach out to them.

Positive

We used Dell EMC solutions and also IBM Quantum. We haven't switched to Qumulo; we just added it in parallel. We like Qumulo's support and maintenance, and everything works smoothly.

The initial setup was really good. It took about a day to deploy the solution. It is deployed in one location in one environment. 

I deployed it myself. I deployed the hardware on-site with remote assistance for the configuration, and it went very well. There were a couple of people to help rack up equipment and lift stuff, but apart from that, I did it myself.

We have seen a return on investment from working with Qumulo. We have saved a lot of time and resources on staff coverage issues, which has resulted in cost savings for us.

The pricing is very good, and the licensing model is easy to understand. It's just the standard licensing.

It's a good option to go with because it's easy to use and it saves time.

Overall, I would rate the product an eight out of ten. 

We use Qumulo to backup archives and for surveillance.

The data protection algorithm to protect the data between the nodes has been the most valuable feature. The integration with backup platforms such as Veeam and Veritas has also been valuable.

The solution could improve availability and improve data protection or data services such as compression of deduplication. In a future release, we'd like to have more cloud API integrations.

We have used this solution for three years.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten. 

We use Qumulo to promote object-based storage for our users.

The ratio of total operational cost to complexity versus feature set is very good.

Qumulo should continue to expand automation and orchestration capabilities.

I have been using Qumulo for 18 months.

The stability of the solution is good. It has been functioning well.

It takes us approximately a week to deploy Qumulo in the data centers.

The price of the solution is in the middle range compared to others. We look at the price per terabyte.

I would advise others to make sure they do a proof of concept or a trial. If they are using Qumulo for object-based storage, ensure that they fully test and validate both the use case as well as their operational requirements before.

I rate Qumulo a seven out of ten.