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Great Performance and Reliability While Being Stable and Convenient To Manage
February 07, 2022

Great Performance and Reliability While Being Stable and Convenient To Manage

Adam Paradis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with NetApp FAS series

The FAS8300 is snappy and very powerful. This NetApp FAS8300 implementation supports NFS-connected storage for over 25 VMware hosts which house over 900 VMs along with direct-Linux connections for hundreds of guest operating systems. Connected disk tiers range from an SSD flash pool to achieve faster access and to 900 GB to 8 TB in size.
  • Administration through web GUI and CLI.
  • Reliability.
  • Performance.
  • Web GUI. It is fairly fast and concise, however, it is missing many fundamental settings that can only be done via CLI.
  • Updates; while these have progressively become easier this functionality is still lacking on the GUI side.
  • Performance reporting is decent but doesn't provide detailed data. High-level graphs help, but are not very concise when troubleshooting.
  • Reliability.
  • Performance.
  • Security.
  • Performance has never been subpar even with over 1000 NFS connections.
  • Reliability.
  • Expensive. Like a lot of enterprise-grade storage platforms, it's fairly expensive.
NetApp FAS is very agile compared to other similar products. It especially caters to NFS and does it expertly. Compellent, Clariion, and EqualLogic all boast similar overall functionality but lag behind in innovation such as a full HTML5 web UI without the installation of additional components. Full PowerShell integration is also very helpful for automation.

Do you think NetApp FAS Storage Arrays delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with NetApp FAS Storage Arrays's feature set?

Yes

Did NetApp FAS Storage Arrays live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of NetApp FAS Storage Arrays go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy NetApp FAS Storage Arrays again?

Yes

vSphere, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cisco UCS Manager
It is very easy to use with NFS. Creating new volumes and mounting to servers such as ESXi or Linux is a breeze. It does also support CIFS but it is far less intuitive and requires much more effort. Replicated data is also very simple and robust in the form of SnapVaults or SnapMirrors. This data is either immediately or periodically replicated to a peer FAS in the cluster for retention.