No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.
NetApp AltaVault Logo

NetApp AltaVault pros and cons

Vendor: NetApp
4.0 out of 5

Pros & Cons summary

Buyer's Guide

Get pricing advice, tips, use cases and valuable features from real users of this product.
Get the report

Prominent pros & cons

PROS

NetApp AltaVault enables seamless data movement from on-premise to cloud storage locations like Azure.
NetApp AltaVault provides flexibility, allowing virtualization and unrestricted testing of backups and disaster recovery capabilities.
NetApp AltaVault offers a deduplication engine that achieves over 10 times deduplication ratio for backup data.
NetApp AltaVault allows storage of large archived data on low-cost on-premise and complemented by even cheaper cloud storage.
NetApp AltaVault supports easy integration with various operating systems, facilitating seamless migration.

CONS

NetApp AltaVault needs more capacity in the basic model, which could prove beneficial.
Integration with Veeam or similar would be better optimized with tighter integration.
NetApp AltaVault only supports up to 500 volumes for SnapMirror, which is insufficient for users needing more, such as 750 volumes.
There's a need for different user base authentication to allow customers to only access their own backups.
It's becoming outdated and competes with NetApp's other primary architecture.
 

NetApp AltaVault Pros review quotes

it_user748329 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer at ActioNet Inc.
Oct 4, 2017
Being able to move data seamlessly from one-premise to the cloud (Azure). It works great. The backup solution is perfect for us.
JH
Senior Storage Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
AltaVault is very economical; you don't need big expertise to manage this product.
it_user750549 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Advisor Infrastructure Planner at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
Leverage the SE and the technical expertise within NetApp; they offer really great services, and they'll provide you with an honest approach to how to address your business problems.
Learn what your peers think about NetApp AltaVault. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2026.
885,880 professionals have used our research since 2012.
it_user750567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Group IT Manager at Vital Energi
Oct 8, 2017
Most importantly is having that island into that datacenter, and being able to address things in the same console. Thus, it is irrelevant where it's stored.
it_user750642 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
The jobs we have baseline into the AltaVault, it seems to be able to recover faster than the previous solution.
it_user750774 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Team Lead at University Of Wollongong
Oct 8, 2017
The flexibility. Being able to virtualize it, port it wherever I like, test my backups, test my DR capabilities whenever I like without impacting anybody.
it_user750780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Core Infrastructure Engineer at Children'S Mercy Hospital
Oct 8, 2017
The deduplication engine. Right now, we're at about 10.5 to 11 times deduplication of our backup data.
it_user750795 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Of It Engineering at a media company
Oct 8, 2017
Able to reduce administrative burden on tape management.
it_user750867 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at Lds Church
Oct 8, 2017
It's pretty simple. Once you set it, it goes; and then the idea of being able to get it to the cloud very quickly. It's kind of a set-it-forget-it.
it_user750870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
You can store backups for a while.
 

NetApp AltaVault Cons review quotes

it_user748329 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer at ActioNet Inc.
Oct 4, 2017
More capacity with the basic model of the AltaVault would probably help out.
JH
Senior Storage Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
To clarify, the catalog feature is lacking, and you need to depend on somebody else.
it_user750549 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Advisor Infrastructure Planner at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
I don't actually use the solution.
Learn what your peers think about NetApp AltaVault. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2026.
885,880 professionals have used our research since 2012.
it_user750567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Group IT Manager at Vital Energi
Oct 8, 2017
There are some bits it could do better. With tighter integration maybe with Veeam, or something like that, it'd be really good.
it_user750642 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
We've had a lot of issues, crashed the service console a lot, service crashes.
it_user750774 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Team Lead at University Of Wollongong
Oct 8, 2017
More than a 500 volume limit. At the moment, it only supports up to 500 volumes for SnapMirror and that's a problem. We've got 750, so a larger limit for volume replicas for SnapMirror.
it_user750780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Core Infrastructure Engineer at Children'S Mercy Hospital
Oct 8, 2017
I really want to partner it with the SnapCenter. We haven't implemented that yet. We're upgrading all of our stuff to the ONTAP 9, which you had to have.
it_user750795 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Of It Engineering at a media company
Oct 8, 2017
Also, we were actually able to discover a bug in the product that they're still working on. It's a bug with the Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol with older Windows operating systems.
it_user750867 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at Lds Church
Oct 8, 2017
What could be helpful is different user base authentication so then maybe we could allow different customers to point to a single appliance and they only see the backups and things that they have.
it_user750870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
We have had issues getting to the right person, but once you get to the right person, they are knowledgeable.