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SolidFire pros and cons

Vendor: NetApp
4.1 out of 5

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PROS

SolidFire is highly scalable, accommodating expansion needs seamlessly.
Performance management is enhanced by full API functionality and consistent performance levels.
It is straightforward to scale up SolidFire according to business needs.
SolidFire is ideal for mid-sized businesses due to its compactness and speed.
Provisioning processes are efficient, reducing latency and optimizing data transfer, beneficial for quick data mining results.

CONS

SolidFire could improve its compatibility with other products.
SolidFire's technical support needs to be improved.
SolidFire should consider reducing the starting point from four nodes to two nodes to lower the cost.
SolidFire users may face some security issues at times that need improvement.
SolidFire's scalability concerns when compared to PowerMax or NetApp AFF series devices due to lack of shelf connectivity.
 

SolidFire Pros review quotes

it_user527100 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Nov 6, 2016
Initial setup was very straightforward, easy.
it_user527121 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Commercial Management Servers at a tech services company
Dec 27, 2016
It's absolutely a consistently stable solution, with 100% up-time and no data loss at all, not even the slightest, delivering not only stability but also a lot of efficiency with the data storage.
it_user527382 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 17, 2016
Provisioning times have gone down and a lot of the random errors from different things that we've seen across time kind of all went away.
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it_user527406 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at Netgain hosting
Oct 6, 2016
If you're looking for an easy-to-implement solution from an all-flash perspective, really take a look at SolidFire.
associat541638 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director, IT at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
May 7, 2018
To my mind, it offers a unique combination that isn't easily matched in the marketplace.
it_user748332 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a consultancy with self employed
Oct 4, 2017
The square footage for doing development is at a premium when dealing with government networks. To be able to put a lot of IOPS in a lot of high-speed performing drives in a very small location which requires very little HVAC with very little power, it is very valuable to us.
Principl4cf9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
Being able to provide quality of service as promised.
it_user750603 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior It Systems Engineer at Billion Automative
Oct 8, 2017
The simplicity of it.
it_user750636 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Ciena
Oct 8, 2017
We can add a node, we add compute, we add storage, and we've had really good luck with that.
it_user750735 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Target
Oct 8, 2017
Templates are already predefined for it. If you're coding it up, it will take two days. You can pick up a template right there from the API, and it just works for you. Implementation done in 10 minutes.
 

SolidFire Cons review quotes

it_user527100 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Nov 6, 2016
I now know their best practices associated with allocating IOPS to your LUNs; I wish that was more apparent to me when actually configuring the system.
it_user527121 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Commercial Management Servers at a tech services company
Dec 27, 2016
In fact, the price is quite high compared to other vendors, but what we really loved about SolidFire was the agility of the team.
it_user527382 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 17, 2016
The upcoming release is supposed to have much richer VMware virtual volume (VVOL) support, which is something we're very interested in.
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it_user527406 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at Netgain hosting
Oct 6, 2016
We've had issues with the stability of our platform.
associat541638 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director, IT at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
May 7, 2018
The level of monitoring could be better.
it_user748332 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a consultancy with self employed
Oct 4, 2017
It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be.
Principl4cf9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
I would like to see integration with the cloud, number one. Being able to spin SolidFire in the cloud.
it_user750603 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior It Systems Engineer at Billion Automative
Oct 8, 2017
We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores.
it_user750636 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Ciena
Oct 8, 2017
We had some false positives, power supplies failing, and that's really been about it. We had a couple of glitches during some upgrade processes but nothing that was really concerning to us.
it_user750735 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Target
Oct 8, 2017
So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it.