#1 most frequent
United States of America
61.7%100 installations of 162
What is NetApp AFF A-Series?
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Flash Array Performance
Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives
Category average: 8.8
Flash Array Integration
Integration with hypervisors and applications
Category average: 9.2
Simplicity
Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training
Category average: 9.2
Areas for Improvement
Non-Intrusive Upgrades
Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required
Category average: 8.9
Power Savings
Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives
Category average: 7.9
Data Compression
Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements
Category average: 7.5
Who Buys & Uses NetApp AFF A-Series
#2 most frequent
France
7.4%12 installations of 162
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4.9%8 installations of 162
NetApp A900 usage and review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
- Volumes created on these nodes are mounted as NFS datastore on compute
- Volumes or LUNs used on these nodes are also mounted as datastore on our compute
- CIFS are used
- Snapmirror replication is used across different data center sites
- Snapshots are used to have protection
- Storage efficiency helps in less storage consumption
Cons
- Configuration of fabric pool can be made simpler
- visiblity of NFS volumes on what clients consume it can be improved
- data analytics can be improved
Return on Investment
- Currently we are in migration phase to A900 nodes
- So not sure of the impact on ROI
- But we are expecting to have a lower bill on our storage usage
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Dell RecoverPoint and Hitachi Command Suite
Other Software Used
Dell RecoverPoint, Hitachi Command Suite
Very Easy and Secure Company Data Storage and the Best on Data Analytics Production.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The best solution offers various companies great experience in data management and a very reliable and secure data storage platform and the capabilities are reliable to all business productions. Easy to set security and access other project data easily through this solution and on data analytics. I also like the capabilities provided, as well as the easy creation of reports via the platform.
Pros
- Secure data storage for the business
- Easy to access various data across other tools
- Data integration is very effective
Cons
- The user training takes a lot of time to complete
- Some tool capability settings are not easy
- To manage multiple different information
Return on Investment
- Easy on clean and straightforward reports building
- Quick data migration
- Project data management and analytics production
Other Software Used
Huawei OceanStor, Dell EMC ECS (formerly Atmos), IBM Cloud Object Storage
The Best and Secure Data Storage Environment Platform with Flexible Features.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Storage capacity planning and the configuration management capability this software offers effective capabilities. Easy interface to set all the features to perform effectively and to generate great quality services through the platform. The ability to manage services and data analytics and even reporting functions provides accurate and productive results in real-time and visualization of different data using NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is incredible.
Pros
- Protective multiple project and business data is excellent.
- Solutions for data storage and data migration.
- Providing useful and quality data reports is effective.
Cons
- Full training process is necessary.
- Advanced functions manipulation and setting.
- Large amount of data transporting process is not that easy.
Return on Investment
- Data protection capability offered is helpful.
- Amazing reports rendering.
- Easy on transferring large amount of information and secure channels.
Other Software Used
Cisco NX-OS, IBM Storage Insights, Huawei AR Series Routers
Insane Performance Required
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We had a project that had a need for a very high I/O for the database backend. We were using NetApp Clustered Arrays with multiple filers, but the wait time was still too high. We switched to a NetApp AFF and immediately noticed drastic performance increases. We were able to achieve write and read times in milliseconds compared to minutes before the swap. At one point, we were actually overloading the IP Stack with the number of connections the database could now handle.
Pros
- Backend database processing.
- Fast data processing for reporting.
- Almost instantaneous snapshots using NetApp SnapManager.
Cons
- Cost is still prohibitive for performance.
- Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect level.
- Automation and scripting improvements in the PowerShell module.
Return on Investment
- The cost was comparably high.
- The performance was necessary for the product infrastructure.
- Integrates well with the rest of the SnapManger infrastructure, so backup strategies didn't change.
Alternatives Considered
IBM FlashSystem
Other Software Used
NetApp SnapCenter Backup Management, NetApp SnapMirror, NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Array Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash arrays support the NFS, CIFS ISCSI, and FC Protocols. We are using this product for our small mid-range projects and database servers.
Pros
- NetApp support the NFS, CIFS ISCSI and FC Protocol
- AIX and Linux servers are booted with SAN Disk
- Oracle and My SQL data base
- High Performance
Cons
- GUI Interface needs to improve
- User must have experience to use this system
Return on Investment
- Quick Data Migration
- High Performance
- Linux and AIX servers are booted with SAN Disk
- Capacity planning tools
Alternatives Considered
IBM FlashSystem