NetApp ONTAP Reviews

NetApp allows a lot more ease to conduct business, especially with the customer. In our organization, a lot of solutions may seem simple, but we have to get through the hoops. For government security reasons, it is very hard to find solutions, and NetApp has done a very good job at being IL6 compliant. They have made it easier for us to be compliant with our customers.

It allows us to speed up processes that normally would take days. That is the way we currently use it. We are still looking into other ways we could use it, but right now, it allows us to transfer and move data extremely faster than what we were doing before. It is at least 60% to 70% faster.

Right now, we are only using ONTAP. It does everything we need, so I would rate it a ten out of ten. The whole point of our project and the team I lead is that we wanted to be able to move data from a ship back to shore. With ONTAP, we are able to do that extremely fast, especially based on the way we were doing it before.

We are a manufacturing company with a mixture of physical systems located at manufacturing plants worldwide. We primarily have a presence in AWS for cloud regions where we utilize and integrate NetApp ONTAP.

The key reason for implementing NetApp ONTAP was full integration globally and cloud connectivity. Prior to moving to NetApp ONTAP, we were all on-prem. With NetApp ONTAP, we have seamless integration with the cloud regions globally.

We were previously struggling internally for DR purposes. We used to replicate data between internal physical locations. With cloud connectivity and seamless connection from on-prem to the cloud utilizing NetApp ONTAP, DR is certainly one of the big challenges that we closed.

We use this storage device for databases, storing databases, and VMware. When it comes to databases ,we have Oracle, SQL, and mission-critical applications. Therefore, we need very good response times, and we get very good response times from NetApp All Flash systems.

Queries are being completed in less time. For example, we have seen a three times improvement when it comes to running a query. If query used to take an hour, now it takes 10 to 20 minutes.

Like NetApp Private Storage, I use the solution for file storage and data source. We use it daily when managing our storage and NetApp's operating system. We log in to it to check the status of the storage. We use it to store all our assets, like the web app, web applications, database applications, Oracle and SQL databases, and VMD.

SnapMirror is good for disaster recovery. We use that currently. Their SAN storage is great. We manage our storage via SAN. We do not currently use NAS because we still use Windows File Servers.

It had been a successful solution for the end-users. They were very happy with the solution that was implemented as it resolved all their issues.

It helped to speed up the delivery. Earlier, if it took around 30 minutes to do a task such as copying some data or doing any content editing, post-implementation of NetApp, and improvement in our network infrastructure, overall activity time was reduced to 10 minutes.

A key challenge for our organization was to speed up the process for media files. It took a longer time to transfer or do any kind of activity on media files. Post-implementation, we were able to speed up our processes on the media files. Although the media file sizes were quite large, NetApp was able to speed up accessibility to those files.

At the time we finalized NetApp, there were a couple of things that were impacting. The size of the data was increasing very quickly, so we wanted a device that was easily expandable without much modification. NetApp fulfilled that requirement, wherein we were able to double the size of the solution without any major impact on the network.

Security played a major role in finalizing the product. The ONTAP technology was quite stringent while creating partitions and in other such scenarios so that the data is fully secured and not accessible without permission. It is also quite difficult to crack the solution. From a security point of view, NetApp was a good solution as it had an OS that was quite unique.

The stability and performance of the solution have provided optimized results as expected. 

We use it for everything, like the NAS and SAN functionality. It's a back-end for the host VMs and the Microsoft SQL Database, which is directly attached to them. We also use all-in-one file servers.

We got rid of about 25 Windows file servers, which is great. We don't have to patch them every month anymore. We now have an all in one solution, which are virtual storage machines (SVMs). For example, previously, executives would try to use presentation material on the file server and the screen would not come up for a long time. Now it come up instantly.

We use it for our mission-critical applications, such as SQL Databases and NetApp AFF.

I have about 500 volumes that I manage, and I love it.

It's a good thing to have a reliable storage. Our whole business relies on it. Our two main mission-critical systems, which are EBS system (Oracle Financials) and Banner, which is our database for student services, are stored on NetApp. We need it to be reliable, efficient, and quick, which it is. 

They run on AIX and are stored on ONTAP.

ONTAP is the OS for NetApp storage controllers. We use it to provision storage or line volumes for our internal customers requesting storage either for databases, the storing of flat files, etc.

ONTAP 7-mode is a bit archaic, but with the clustered mode, it is straightforward. Also, if you add OnCommand Unified Manager, it is awesome.

We have a lot of mission critical systems, so we normally use ONTAP for all of them along with our databases and applications, e.g., Oracle Databases, like the BI and the CRM. We also have a VMS, which takes care of our virtual management systems.

It's easy to use. So, we don't have much stress.