NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays - High Bandwidth
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays used for data analytics and other high performance application and data base. Its great storage which …
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What is NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays?
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…
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- Simplicity (5)9.494%
- Flash Array Performance (5)9.393%
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades (5)8.181%
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What is NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays?
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. The arrays are presented as ideal for mixed workloads and demanding applications such as analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI).
EF-Series features:
EF-Series features:
- NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) support, providing low latency and investment protection
- Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, and InfiniBand (IB) support for enhanced interoperability with any existing SAN infrastructure
- Redundant components with automated failover
- Advanced monitoring and diagnostics with proactive repair
- Storage management with comprehensive tuning functions
- Full-function NetApp SANtricity® Web Services embedded REST API
- SANtricity Snapshot™ technology, volume copy, mirroring for data protection where supported, and Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP)
- SANtricity data assurance (T10-PI standard) for data integrity and protection against silent data inconsistency
The NetApp EF600 all-flash array is designed specifically for workloads that demand the highest levels of performance. The NetApp EF300 array is designed for mixed workload environments such as big data analytics and databases. These NVMe all-flash arrays deliver double the performance of the previous SAS all-flash arrays.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Reviewers rate Flash Array Integration highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 29, 2022
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays - High Bandwidth
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays used for data analytics and other high performance application and data base. Its great storage which provide the high IOP's for read intensive application and database and its well managed the all business problems where application and database need high bandwidth of IOP's.
- This storage for High Bandwidth for Data analysis
- NetApp EF provide the high IOP's with low latency.
- Its work well for backup and restore for different application data.
- NetApp EF-Series All Flash Array need to perform the additional configuration for multipathing
- Experienced are required to manage this storage
100%
10.0
- Positive Impact on Business where application and database need high IOP's ,data processing speed.
- Its well designed for high end application and database
- Its not well suited for small mid-rang organization because of price.
- Stability and reliability
- IBM FlashSystem and IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
February 17, 2022
Netapp EF is series is best storage in Enterprise Segment for high Bandwidth applications
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays for data analytics and for other high performance applications , its great storage provides high IOP's for read-intensive applications ,basically its used in business problems , where application needs high bandwidth of IOP's with simple, fast, reliable enterprise level SAN storage. The scope of this storage in our case to to provide high IOP's to analytics and video surveillance application servers
- Netapp EF series storage basically used for high bandwidth like data analytics
- Netapp EF series Flash arrays provide high IOPS with low latency for mixed workload application
- NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is also used for fast backup and restore of different applications
- NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays basically provides high bandwidth that's basically used for high end application , but still there are lot of application needs to be run on low/medium bandwidth , for that , there some low/medium IOP's disk need be integrated in storage.
- NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are accessed NetApp SANtricity Web Services Proxy. which is separate tool or agent , its better we can access the GUI vi browser without any tool or agent.
- NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays, need to perform additional configurations for multipathing that's not required in other storage
83.33333333333334%
8.3
- The positive impact , its better storage in term of performance (high IOP's , data protection featuure )as compare to other storage in this segment
- The negative point is , series storage can be only use for only high end application , its not usable for low end applications and for other purposes .
- The Price of this series storage is bit high , every organisation will not able to use it
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays provide high IOP's , data protection and other features which makes this storage different from other storage in the enterprise segment , I also worked on IBM DS8K storage and IBM flash storage , But If i compare both of them on basis of performance and feature , I feel Netapp EF series is far better in this segment , I highly recommend Netapp EF series storage , where we required highly IOPS and bandwidth.
February 07, 2022
The NetApp EF-Series Flash Arrays are all solid-state systems which use SSDs resulting with exceptional perforamnce
My customer use this NAS storage devices for bronze application servers (mainly VMs on ESX clusters with important databases). EF- series deliver microsecond response to client's most demanding DBs and maximum uptime. EF-series purchase from NetApp was decided directly by customer architects, and as the devices are powered by NetApp® SANtricity software to give extensive configuration flexibility and custom performance tuning, this was definitely good choice. NetApp here offers
ONTAP9 SW and on client environment we use FlexArray Virtualisation as well,
becasue ONTAP can integrate with almost any third-party hardware. So, generally, solution for my customer touches
virtualization of the environment in 4 regions with most demanded DBs. Globally, likewise for these devices, NetApp
come from a larger non-hyperconverged storage family.
- 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
- maximum of 2TB for FAS250 models
- Schedule a downtime maintenance window for SAS expansion cards
- Its price is competitive to other NetApp devices, but generally very high with additional licensing
60%
6.0
- MCC solution
- SSD drives with installed SSD-optimized ONTAP OS AFF resulting with great performance and almost no latency
- Easy to manage and use for admins
- very good support from Netapp generally
- easy setup
Recently upgraded system doesn't need to update so frequently like different storage devices. EF series were selected directly bu customer due to experience for shared customer infra where they are used. Performance and almost non-latency was huge trigger to get them into production for bronze application within VM environment for the most demanded DBs. Comparing to already evaluated products e.g IBM Flash systems or Dell EMC VMAX, I see NetApp EF series as trending solution for critical environment including critical system backup data. specially with this integrity with third party devices. Because of mandatory expertise and knowledge of NetApp family, the solution isn't suited for non-trained experienced users.
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- Prior Experience with the Product
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February 03, 2022
Most data transformative platform with positive performance.
This product has been giving us multiple services that have developed effective infrastructure for better development. It has a cloud-based data storage platform that helps us to save data in a secure environment. It is simple to work with the entire system optimizing operations. Data networking has been achieved enhancing the provision of reliable insights that lead to faster growth.
- Provision of secure storage disks.
- Data analysis enhancing better planning.
- I have not experienced downtime performance since we deployed this tool.
- All the features works effectively.
93.33333333333334%
9.3
- There have been positive ROI.
- Most operational objectives on data management have been achieved.
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.
November 11, 2021
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays Review
Good performance,
Very High dedupe ratio for NFS share and Very easy to manage
- Good to use for Hyper-V Shared volume
- Good to use for passthrough DISK
- Very Good for NFS share
- Reporting future /management future need to improve and need to consolidate to single solution
85%
8.5
- High dedupe ratio