NetApp FAS Storage Arrays

NetApp FAS Storage Arrays

NetApp FAS Storage Arrays

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NetApp FAS Storage Arrays	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	NetApp's FAS series systems offers a storage array system for enterprises.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Adam Paradis Virtualization Administrator Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays NetApp FAS is very agile compared to other similar products. It especially caters to NFS and does it expertly. Compellent, Clariion, and EqualLogic all boast similar overall functionality but lag behind in innovation such as a full HTML5 web UI without the installation of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Dell EMC PowerScale is [a] good product, however, the product is not good with small files; even after enabling the small file efficiency, the product did not perform well. However, [the] NetApp FAS series gave us the results we expected in our performance testing; after … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays We had chosen NetApp FAS series because of its high performance, deduplication, manageability, and backup features. Although I have been able to use these NetApp FAS series features, the implementation of them has not worked as well as with other storage providers. There was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays NetApp stacked nicely and gave enterprise-level usability for snapshot-based backups. Our previous RPO was several hours. It was selected prior to me arriving at the company, but It was selected for the hardware refreshes due to its compatibility with several other vendors, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Like most other unified solutions, NetApp excels in one particular area, unstructured data. Whilst it can, and does support the presentation of block-based volumes, I do not view it as a strong suit for NetApp. When comparing to other products, the two Unified products that I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays NetApp is a truly unified solution, with a single OS to manage both SAN and NAS workloads. Both the legacy EMC solution we had in place and the 3PAR + Storeasy solutions used a server host backed by SAN LUNs to provide NAS workloads. It works but adds some complexity and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays We had used a Dell EMC product before moving to the NetApp. This was in combination with a tape drive array. The drastic improvement in moving to the NetApp was incredible. Our backup maintenance time was shortened to next to nothing. No more tapes. No more running out of space … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Only other SAN we used before this was an EMC CX300 that was used for around 8 years. It was ok in that it didn't have major issues, just some bad drives here and there, but the interface and setup of it were horribly difficult. Incentivized Helpful? Albert Buendía IT System Engineer Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays NetApp is best as a Windows file server virtual machines alternative and is perfect as a native CIFS server. We backup with NMDP protocol. Pure Storage is the winner for virtual machine storage with its incredible performance. Incentivized Helpful? Vin Campbell IT Director Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays We ultimately went with the NetApp FAS series based upon the recommendation of our trusted reseller. The device implementation fit directly in with the bigger infrastructure plan/rollout we were in the middle of. However, I did my due diligence when researching the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays We once relied on EMC and and IBM for storage. Over the years we have transitioned to NetApp for all our storage needs. The main reason we have liked NetApp FAS is due to the many options and standardized management capabilities from one pane of glass. We don't have to buy 3-6 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Over the years we have consumed pretty much all industry storage solutions. Over the years we have used all major vendors and many start up storage vendors. The main reason we have liked NetApp FAS is due to the exhaustive capabilities and standardized management capabilities … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Disaster recovery Pro Data protection Pro Storage systems
Top Cons	Minus Cloud integration Minus Non disruptive Minus Storage capacity

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	NetApp FAS Storage Arrays
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (13 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	NetApp FAS Storage Arrays
Likelihood to Recommend	NetApp It is very easy to use with NFS. Creating new volumes and mounting to servers such as ESXi or Linux is a breeze. It does also support CIFS but it is far less intuitive and requires much more effort. Replicated data is also very simple and robust in the form of SnapVaults or SnapMirrors. This data is either immediately or periodically replicated to a peer FAS in the cluster for retention. Incentivized Adam Paradis Virtualization Administrator Read full review
Pros	NetApp The selling point for NetApp FAS is the application and data protection integration capabilities they provide. We have been able to use NetApp FAS in a variety of use cases with a standard set of management tools. NetApp FAS has evolved over the years from just NAS to also include block protocols. At this time they support almost all industry standard protocols. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	NetApp Deduplication job runs at certain times and creates a large CPU overhead for the system Management of a volumes, disk groups, LUNs, etc. is a burden to manage and is not efficient with storage capacity Upgrades are complicated and not "non-disruptive" Incentivized Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Read full review
Usability	NetApp It does have a really nice and easy to use web interface to do pretty much anything you need with it. It was very simple to configure our volumes and luns and connect them to our VMWare environment using the interface. It has options to rename, shrink, grow, and other things with our luns and volumes. It was nice and easy to read graphs to see where you stand on your storage usage at a glance. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	NetApp NetApp support in Brazil is managed by its partners. We know in other countries, such as the US and NO, they have support directly from Netapp. We have a very good NetApp partner working with us since the beginning, on both the implementation and daily support. Very few cases needed to be escalated to NetApp support, most of the cases are handled and satisfyingly closed by the partner. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	NetApp NetApp stacked nicely and gave enterprise-level usability for snapshot-based backups. Our previous RPO was several hours. It was selected prior to me arriving at the company, but It was selected for the hardware refreshes due to its compatibility with several other vendors, like CommVault and VMware. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	NetApp The speed of file recovery is the biggest positive impact. Recovering from a ransomware attack in minutes is something you can certainly brag about. Integration with products like Exchange and SQL can certainly speed up normal day to day processes. Not just in backup recovery situations either. Redundant paths make migrations and updates very easy with no downtime. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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