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NetApp FAS is being used in our environment as our SAN and CIFS file system. This system replaced an old (and undersized) storage array. This system is now used for a number of things including a complete disaster recovery plan and backup system. One important part of this was to speed up backup recovery times. NetApp software makes this possible.
- Backups are a piece of cake with Snapshot technology.
- Disaster recovery plans are made much easier with SnapMirroring to remote locations.
- The support is incredible. Auto Support makes it incredibly easy. The Auto Support website also gives you a great view of your NetApp deployment.
- Redundant paths make updating and maintenance much easier with no downtime.
- System Manager is missing some commands and therefore you have to rely on CLI. This is not a problem for most admins but it has room for improvement.
- Cabling diagrams for redundant path can be confusing.
- When we had one of the older models in place our drives would spontaneously pop out of place due to old plastic clips. We have not had the same issue again with a newer NetApp model.
July 29, 2019
NetApp FAS series acting as a CIFS business server
Two NetApp FAS series are being used as CIFS servers. They serve all the department's folders for the whole organization. So, we replaced our typical Windows servers with a NetApp solution. Why? Basically, for two main reasons. First, for security purposes. We make volumes snapshots every hour. In the case of a ransomware infection, we resolve the incident by managing snapshots. The second reason we switched was so fileservers don't have a typical NetBIOS name. We use NetApp for our CIFS servers in conjunction with Active Directory DFS so folders and files have no dependencies of a fileserver name. This is great.
- Volume snapshots
- CIFS server
- Snapmirror between both NetApp storage instances
- Hardware snapshots with backup software
- Software Management
- Bundle software is hard to implement and use
- Tecnical support is lacking, at least here in Spain
August 09, 2019
NetApp Reliability and Support is Not Quite There
We use a NetApp FAS3210 in our main office and a FAS2240 offsite in our colo. The FAS3210 is our primary storage for all of our VMWare environment, which includes 9 VMWare hosts and over 220 virtual servers. The FAS2240 in the colo is used for a handful of production VMWare machines, as well as the storage of some offsite backup from our executive office.
- It was fairly easy to implement with guided assistance from NetApp.
- We haven't had many drive failures.
- The pricing was right.
- We have had too many troubles with the controllers, had one die completely, and are now fighting an issue where the two don't communicate.
- They try to nickel and dime you with extra costs for additional features.
- Software upgrades are too difficult.
March 14, 2019
NetApp -- an excellent platform for virtual environments
We have one NetApp FAS2200 device that houses the entire backend of our virtual server network behind two Dell PowerEdge R front end servers. This device houses all of the virtual server files for all of the organization's virtual server infrastructure. This one device -- containing an array of hard drives -- pumps out enough speed and bandwidth to run about 12+ servers at the same time.
- Support. Support. Support. It's been a welcomed surprise to have a hard drive land on my desk, and a better surprise to have a NetApp tech arrive soon after to install the drive. I didn't even know the drive failed-- now that's support.
- AS stated, the ability of these devices to host multiple virtual servers, entire infrastructures, and work well and fast, is a definite strength.
- The ability to stack these devices and have failover.
- The upgrade program is great.
- The unit did go through a lot of hard drives early on. It took them a while to figure out it was a firmware issue. Once that was fixed, it got better.
- Firmware should have a "live" update process.
- The price point could be better.
It is being used for the IT department or across the whole organization. It solves our IT Infrastructure growth issue. We are a small NetApp customer that uses mostly features such as Snapmirror and SnapStore primary of NetApp product portfolio. We have approximately 2 NetApp FAS in use today ranging from DR configurations all the way to small corporate data center installations. We are a long term customer with over 5 years of experience with NetApp in production and development at our company.
- Replication
- Recovery
- Storage Provisioning
- Documentation
- User Interface
April 26, 2016
NetApp FAS... a universal storage problem solver!
We are a large NetApp customer that uses the full NetApp product portfolio. We have approximately 20PB of NetApp FAS in use today ranging from very small remote office configurations all the way to large corporate data center installations. We are a long term customer with over 8 years of experience with NetApp in production at our company.
- 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.
- Netapp needs to modernize and unify their management tools, and off tap integration products.
- Netapp lost focus on solving customer business problems. They were too focused on their transformation to Clustered data ontap.
- NetApp needs to move from a controller pair architecture (Tier2) to a multi-controller active-active architecture (Tier1).
NetApp FAS series Scorecard Summary
About NetApp FAS series
NetApp's FAS series systems offers a storage array system for enterprises.
NetApp FAS series Technical Details
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