Qumulo success story
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Qumulo is currently used as a central network storage solution for our audio design team, graphic designers, video editors, and 3D modelers. About 30 people have access to it and use it to store files and work together on them. We also have a second cluster in our second theatre which acts as a backup. The Qumulo has solved a challenge we had with the cost and complexity of our old fiber SAN.
Pros
- Support, they offer a slack based support which is fast and incredibly helpful.
- Fast releases, they release new features every 2 weeks and actively seek out improvement ideas from end-users.
- NFS and SMB co-existent support through mapping permissions allows mixed end users to connect through there native protocol.
Cons
- Admin users are not able to be tied to SSO or LDAP accounts.
- At the start there was no RBAC but this has since been addressed.
- While there is incredible analytics, there is no native way to get historical trends by volume or user.
Likelihood to Recommend
Qumulo is great for media and entertainment companies, that need simple and easy management of a NAS. The product can also scale and be sized to larger shops too. The support that comes with it also can act as an extension of internal IT. Their support is always watching the box when it phones home with hardware errors or if it would go offline. Qumulo is not initially set up well-running virtual workloads, while Vmware supports NFS, some settings need to be adjusted on Qumulo to allow for upgrades to happen while virtual machines are running
