EMC VNX (Discontinued) vs. QNAP NAS

• 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.

Incentivized

We save a lot of money using QNAP for the backup of Virtual machines. We installed a QNAP in the datacenter of our Cloud Provider and the cost of the backup and storage that we use is, at least, 1/10 of the cost that we had in the past. We can choose what kind of drives we can install, so if we want affordable we can use 5400/7200 hard drives, if we need speed we can use SSD drives.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Management interface is very useful
• Quick solutions can be produced with flexible storage pools
• It can create a powerful customizable system on its own, along with connectivity features and add-ons.
• A powerful customizable system can be created with flexible connectivity features and add-ons.
• Advanced user management can be easily provided either in its own interface or on the domain.
• It can take on the role you want with its integrated modes or add-ons that you can install later.
• Most wonderful feature, advanced support service, we never had any unsolved problems and the support engineer was always interested, followed one to one
• With web, ssh, ftp, winscp connections, you can easily access in any environment.

Incentivized

• It occupies a large floor space in the data center.
• Unisphere management interface uses Java, which is problematic to run.

Incentivized

• I can not think of any at this moment.
• Not a con - but security issues are due to users' negligence.

Incentivized

QNAP NAS is a really good product, but I think the best part is the support for the products. Whenever I have a question or imagine something that won't happen, I can ask the support side. When the support engineer understands what I want to do, he does his best.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

Our historical supplier was a QNAP partner so we started with them.

We resell on request also NETGEAR and Synology. Maybe is for the practice on them but we think that they are easier to use and configure.

The thing i can affirm with convinction is that are realy durable! I think i never repaired a QNAP NAS and, we resell them from about 10 years.

They have all the functionality we ever had to our customers.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• I cannot quantify, but it really saves a lot of money for backup.

Incentivized