NetApp A900 usage and review
January 22, 2025
NetApp A900 usage and review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- AFF A900
Overall Satisfaction with NetApp AFF A-Series
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
- 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
Yes A900 stack up well against these products and have provided more flexibility in terms of management and expansion.
Adding new nodes or additional storage shelves is easy and can be quick to get the additional stoarge requirements within our Org.
So definitely a better experience than the previous storage arrays we used.
Adding new nodes or additional storage shelves is easy and can be quick to get the additional stoarge requirements within our Org.
So definitely a better experience than the previous storage arrays we used.
Do you think NetApp AFF A-Series delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with NetApp AFF A-Series's feature set?
Yes
Did NetApp AFF A-Series live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of NetApp AFF A-Series go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy NetApp AFF A-Series again?
Yes
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