Overview
What is SolidFire (discontinued)?
NetApp acquired the scale-out flash storage startup SolidFire in late 2015. The product line was discontinued in October of 2023, and is no longer available from NetApp.
Net App Solid Fire offers a competitive product at an attractive price point
SolidFire is a great product
The Best All Flash Storage
Solidfire is a fast, solid, multi-purpose block array - great at what it is, but know what it isn't
Product Demos
Deploy and configure NetApp SolidFire Demo VM v12
SolidFire QOS Demo: Performance Management
Product Details
- About
- Tech Details
What is SolidFire (discontinued)?
SolidFire (discontinued) Technical Details
Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews and Ratings
(9)Community Insights
- Business Problems Solved
NetApp SolidFire is a software solution that offers seamless deployment and easy accessibility of virtual infrastructures, leading to increased productivity and business performance. According to users, it solves infrastructure problems by providing straightforward deployment and significantly less time-consuming benefits of virtualization that make the most efficient use of physical hardware storage. This solution also allows users to focus on their skills and manage storage efficiently, reducing costs and workload while minimizing manpower usage.
Another significant problem solved by NetApp SolidFire is the ability to easily create and delete VM servers. Users note that this results in cost savings and better use of data center space. Additionally, it enables development and testing, scalability, flexibility, security, load balancing, backup, and recovery. Users appreciate the central management of virtual infrastructures which ensures security, access control, and variable management.
However, users have noted some downsides such as fuzziness on network and segment load which can affect security and access control. Furthermore, when loaded with many VMs, there can be a slowdown in performance. Nevertheless, users view NetApp SolidFire as an effective solution that provides a single software solution to manage virtual infrastructure centrally while improving hardware management by eliminating the need to manage it physically. Overall it helps businesses run more efficiently without sacrificing performance or security.
Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-3 of 3)- Speed is incredible.
- Ongoing maintenance is great.
- Price point was quite good.
- There seems to be an overarching view (with drill downs) of the entire infrastructure.
- You need a solid partner to implement this product initially.
- As this product is still integrating with Net Apps mature support systems, I still think that there is room for a better end to end experience.
- Flash Array Performance
- 100%10.0
- Flash Array Integration
- 80%8.0
- Data Compression
- 90%9.0
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades
- 90%9.0
- Simplicity
- 70%7.0
- Power Savings
- 70%7.0
- The ROI was quick - under 1 year
- Nutanix AOS and HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube)
SolidFire is a great product
- Manages all flash storage
- Easy to understand GUI
- API documentation could use some help
- GUI can be slow
- Flash Array Performance
- N/AN/A
- Flash Array Integration
- N/AN/A
- Data Compression
- 80%8.0
- Simplicity
- 40%4.0
- Power Savings
- 40%4.0
- Helps take the burden off storage team for provisioning of new or expansion of existing storage.
- Reduced licensing cost.
The Best All Flash Storage
- Flash
- Storage
- On-perm
- Cloud integration
- Pricing
- Support
- Interoperability
- Flash Array Performance
- 90%9.0
- Flash Array Integration
- 90%9.0
- Data Compression
- 90%9.0
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades
- 80%8.0
- Simplicity
- 80%8.0
- Power Savings
- 80%8.0
- Effectiveness
- Ease of use
- Cost savings by tiering