EMC VNX (Discontinued) vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
EMC VNX (Discontinued)
Score 5.2 out of 10
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The former EMC VNX series is EOL. The vendor invites users to instead try Dell EMC's Unity series family of midrange storage appliances.N/A
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
Score 9.3 out of 10
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The NetApp® EF-Series is a family of entry-level and midrange all-flash storage arrays that accelerate organizations' access to data and help derive value from it. These systems offer NVMe flash storage and provide more affordable to extreme IOPS, boasting response times under 100 microseconds and bandwidth up to 44GBps.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
EMC VNX (Discontinued)
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Ratings
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
8.9
5 Ratings
2% below category average
Flash Array Performance00 Ratings9.35 Ratings
Flash Array Integration00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
Data Compression00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
Simplicity00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
Power Savings00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Dell VMAX
Dell VMAX
Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
EMC VNX (Discontinued)NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
Likelihood to Recommend
3.1
(3 ratings)
9.2
(5 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
EMC VNX (Discontinued)NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
  • EMC VNX is suited for VMware environment as it integrates with vCenter.
  • Integrates well with SolarWinds storage monitoring software.
  • It is well suited for enterprise-level organizations with 100+ servers.
  • It is not suited for small businesses as it requires specialized administrators and has relatively high license cost.
  • It is not suited for businesses that host most of their servers on the cloud.
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NetApp
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is useful for the application that required high badwidth , IOP's like Video surveillance, analytics (hadoop), online transaction processing applications, fast data backup and restore. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is less appropriate for the application that required low/medium IOP's . i.e log collection application server, snapshot collection ... etc.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • VNX has had very solid uptime. Over the course of the last 5 years, we have had very little if any downtime.
  • We have also used it for our home directories, and with the data dedupe on the file side it has saved us a lot of space.
  • Adding additional drive space has also been really easy.
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NetApp
  • Storage pooling with thin provisioning
  • Solution of MetroCluster in Cluster-Mode known as MCC
  • very good solution for more than 500 users per cluster
  • impressive IOPS, microsecond response times
  • Faster database application
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • It occupies a large floor space in the data center.
  • Unisphere management interface uses Java, which is problematic to run.
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NetApp
  • NetApp EF-Series All Flash Array need to perform the additional configuration for multipathing
  • Experienced are required to manage this storage
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Usability
Discontinued Products
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NetApp
HW and SW of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy to use, with very good support.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
  • Dell EMC Unity is the improved version of EMC VNX. It has all the features in VNX with better performance.
  • NetApp all flash is faster and more expensive. It performs better with Citrix systems and VDI solutions.
  • HP MSA storage system is less performant and less expensive. It works better for file and CCTV data storage.
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NetApp
I have not been able to work with such a great platform in my career experience. Data storage and networking of all databases have been a great achievement of this platform. The user interface is simple and the dashboard shows clear trends in data infrastructure. There are backup storage systems on our cloud servers in case we lose any data. It has an automated update system that keeps our applications up to date.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • I think it has provided improved reliability and performance [compared to] our previous solutions.
  • The lack of performance metrics has led us to need a 3rd party tool that integrates into our Vsphere environment to give us feed back on performance.
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NetApp
  • High dedupe ratio
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