FSxN for the enterprises review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Before this amazing service, we had to use different solutions in different silos, and with any of the existing solutions, we had gaps from what we expect from an enterprise-grade solution. The resiliency, the number of features AWS has in terms of efficiencies and data mobility is lacking and they have no way to have cross-platform access, or to enjoy cross efficiencies. With FSxN we have the entire goodies that NetApp has developed for 30 years now for the enterprise, with centralized unified storage, as a fully managed IaaS. Awesome! We based our entire storage platform on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for any NAS (SMB and NFS) and iSCSI workloads.
Pros
- Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud
- Multiprotocol access
- PV for EKS
- Data mobility
- Data security
- Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager
Cons
- Data Protection from AWS console
- Advance Matrix
- FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console
Likelihood to Recommend
- For any enterprise-grade storage, this is the best option. - EDA workloads are very strong with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp's FlexCache technologies. - Random read workloads such as OLTP are awesome on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. - File Services are the best in class on FSxN. - DR sites from ONTAP on-premises are amazing.
