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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NetApp AFF A-Series

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ANetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.N/A

    NetApp SnapMirror

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ANetApp offers SnapMirror, a data replication option.N/A
    Pricing
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesNetApp SnapMirror
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesNetApp SnapMirror
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesNetApp SnapMirror
    Considered Both Products
    NetApp
    Chose NetApp AFF A-Series
    The IBM All Flash FAS was similar in performance and price, but we were already a NetApp shop. This made the decision easier to go with the NetApp AFF system so it would tie in with our SnapManager architecture, as well as keep the learning curve short.
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    NetApp
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
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    Features
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesNetApp SnapMirror
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of NetApp AFF A-Series and NetApp SnapMirror
    Feature
    NetApp AFF A-Series
    8.3
    8 Ratings
    7% below category average
    NetApp SnapMirror
    -
    Ratings
    Flash Array Performance9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration9.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Compression6.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades8.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Simplicity8.98 Ratings00 Ratings
    Power Savings8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesNetApp SnapMirror
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Dell Compellent (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Qlik Replicate
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Everpure FlashArray
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Replicate
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesNetApp SnapMirror
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesNetApp SnapMirror
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NetApp
    Easy interface and the accessibility of the features are effective and this solution functionalities on data migration and processing of different from other packages is amazing. NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is the most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data and the capacity planning tools and even the configuration options are the best and easy to use.
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    NetApp
    NetApp SnapMirror is a no-brainer when it comes to retaining an offsite backup for disaster recovery purposes. The backbone of the product is the Snapshot technology built into NetApp technology. In my experience, the Snapshot/SnapMirror software has been flawless and very dependable. The only piece that I can see adding in the future is potentially connecting SnapMirror to the cloud as an additional backup destination.
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    Pros
    NetApp
    • Protective multiple project and business data is excellent.
    • Solutions for data storage and data migration.
    • Providing useful and quality data reports is effective.
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    NetApp
    • Seeding is only required initially
    • Replication updates are very swift
    • Traffic can be reduced with network compression
    • It is well integrated with NetApp's SnapCenter backup tool
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    Cons
    NetApp
    • Cost is still prohibitive for performance.
    • Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect level.
    • Automation and scripting improvements in the PowerShell module.
    Incentivized
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    NetApp
    • Pro: Stability in storage we have had these in place for 3 years and besides a failed disk, there have been no issues.
    • Pro: Replication options are pretty good
    • Pro: Storage Provisioning as well as a wealth of features that are an additional add-on for competitors
    • Cons: Support is lacking in customer service and being proactive of system alerts and errors
    • Cons: the Learning curve. Easy to make mistakes using the user interface as it does lack functionality.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    NetApp
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    NetApp
    Very well versed and a good product to deal with downtime to recover from the failure is pretty good. Also, NetApp's engagement on Incident calls is very professional and humble. I would give a 100% rating to this product as I have been working on this for the past 5 years. It is stable, fast and highly reliable
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    Usability
    NetApp
    Our organizations primary storage platform is NetApp AFF-A900 nodes. All our storage requirements, be it storage visible to our compute either using FC or NFS is through these nodes. The shares or CIFS too are setup on these nodes. We also use the fabric pool to write the data to NetApps Storage Grid
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    NetApp
    It just works 99% of the time. Even if there's a network outage, jobs just pick up after the outage is over. The only reason it's not a 10 is the weakness of the GUI interface for configuration. For me, all configuration has to be done at the command line.
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    Support Rating
    NetApp
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    NetApp
    NetApp support has always been great. With the NetApp Auto-support system/web portal, the visibility into your NetApp storage is incredible. There have been times when I've been contacted by them for an issue that I haven't even discovered yet. For example, I received a call 20 minutes after a drive failed in our filer. I hadn't checked my email at that time and therefore didn't see the alert.
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    Alternatives Considered
    NetApp
    I have been an IBM and EMC storage customer. I used EMC CX and VMX series SANs. I have used IBM Shark SANs before that. Much has changed over the years. It is my experience that Netapp has shown a great deal more innovation with large leaps in technology, ease of use and an aggressive progress while the two other vendors that I have experience with are more tied to their legacy technologies.
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    NetApp
    We chose NetApp's SnapMirror solution primarily because it was already integrated and licensed on our storage platforms. This allowed us to have a very fast implementation time and really allowed us to quickly close the learning gap of our administrators. Not only is NetApp SnapMirror easy to use, but it is also really easy to set up. IBM's product seemed quite difficult to set up and it would have taken our team much more time (which we don't have) to learn that product than NetApp's SnapMirror.
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    Return on Investment
    NetApp
    • ROI has been tremendous as it has come in handy in all the scenarios we were looking at
    • Users and admins both happy with the overall performance and management is happy that they got a good deal from reseller.
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    NetApp
    • NetApp SnapMirror has allowed us to recover critical data in a timely manner on multiple occasions.
    • We have been able to decrease our RPO objectives.
    • We have been able to decrease our DR costs as well.
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