NetApp AFF - All Flash Reviews

It has a high quality of integration that is way beyond the competition. 

Its efficiency and scalability are the most valuable features.

The scaling needs improvement. NetApp is limited for scaling options. 

With other options, you need to buy a couple of different products to achieve the same outcome.

In comparison to other options, NetApp is the most complete. It is the single software choice that can give you every option that you need in the enterprise world.

With the FAS, the most valuable features are the snap capability and remote snap.

We would like to be able to import the share as NFS and CIFS at the same time. I recently came into three different scenarios where I needed to share the same data both to Windows and UNIX. Samba was not a solution that we could use, so it would have to be CIFS and NFS to UNIX.

I’ve been using this for at least 5 years.

We have not had any downtime with the FAS series. It has been very good and stable.

Scalability is good. It's going to meet our needs going forward. We are in the process of adding drawers to it right now.

Technical support is good. The problem right now is that NetApp is in the process of discontinuing old disks and the new disks are not yet available. We were in the process of upgrading, and I had to buy old disks that are going to be end-of-life by the end of the year, but new disks are not available yet.

This is a good solution. I would recommend that they go for it.

The most valuable features for us are the secure multi-tenancy to Data ONTAP and High Availability built into Data ONTAP that provides almost no downtime.

With Data ONTAP clusters, we've been able to unify our servers and have unified management of them. We can also scale freely.

I'd like to see a web-based front end in addition to the CLI.

We've been using it for three months, including the proof of concept.

We haven't had any issues with deployment.

It's been stable for us.

It's scaled just fine.

Customer service is great.

We previously used EMC, but we switched to take advantage of clustered Data ONTAP.

The initial setup was just fine and straightforward.

We implemented it in-house.

SnapMirror is definitely the most valuable feature for us. It allows us to have a snapshot in minutes and we can use it to restore quickly from a backup.

Also, the speed of AFF is great.

We use it for automating cloud deployments of SAP applications and products.

They have issues with deleting big data.

We've been using it since September.

We encountered no deployment issues.

It's generally stable.

It scales to our needs.

Technical support were helpful, but it took time to find the right person to help me. It started with a service rep in India, and was passed to three people until we found the right person with the correct knowledge. I give them a 7 out of 10.

It's our first flash storage solution.

I wasn't involved, but those who were told me it was easy.

Don’t implement if it's not needed because it’s quite expensive. We need it because of the demanding features.

• Clustered Data ONTAP for our VMs
• Search efficiency
• Unified storage multi-protocol 
• We went from fiber channel to NFS and we had to buy a new controller.

We were able to migrate from a flash pool to AFF very effectively and efficiently.

They need to decrease the latency and to improve the transmission in PNE STE using compression. We need to add a non-AFF note to do this at the moment.

We've used it for six months for our Oracle databases.

We've had no issues with deploying it.

It's very stable.

It scales to our needs.

10/10. I ask for Jeffrey who works at NetApp.

We used a flash pool, and switched to improve performance.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We implemented it through the NetApp team, who were good.

No other options were evaluated.

Before buying, look at the migration plans. Try it and buy it.

ADP (advanced drive partitioning), which eases capacity management on smaller capacity platforms. Great performance for OLTP systems.

The Oracle workload, which was previously deployed on physical servers with direct-attached storage, has greatly improved mostly with transaction processing speed. Latency has been almost eliminated on protocol and physical disk layer.

Mostly security-related bugs on various DATA ONTAP for c-DOT versions. No comments on the physical platform itself.

Since October 2015 (10 months).

Configuring ADP seemed a bit more difficult than traditional aggregate setup.

Most of our current solutions are based on spinning media and hybrid solutions. Due to the greater performance improvement on flash systems, the higher number of IOPS and less latency on the storage back end, I would recommend deploying performance-dependent workloads on SSD platforms.

The initial setup was straight-forward with the exception of the ADP aggregate setup and spare drive management.

Implemented in-house.

Carefully estimate the IOPS profile of the workload that is going to be deployed on AFF as it is optimized for random I/O.