If ten is the highest rating, then it's a ten. The customer use case is the only thing that depends on the configuration, that might impact the solution. Else, it is a ten on ten.
Owner - Sales Manager / IT Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
MSP
Top 5
2024-06-05T22:00:00Z
Jun 5, 2024
The integration requires having a specific layout, and this layout depends on how the data is moved. If you don’t have a good setup from the beginning, you may need to rearrange the data to ensure correct usage, especially if you have a huge database. I recommend the solution because it protect with no impact and recover easily. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
We use LDR and NetApp within our enterprise architecture. It exceeds both FPO and LPO standards due to the built-in technologies. Additionally, accessing a snapshot needs an LPO objective when restoring data from snapshots. We have a global presence in over 100 countries around the world. We have an on-premises presence with infrastructure as a service in more than 65 factories worldwide. These factories span continents from China to South America, Europe, and the Middle East. Each factory hosts at least one storage array that facilitates hosting our server functions and projects. We integrate with the cloud to achieve backup and disaster recovery. If a factory or an entire region experiences downtime, we have the data replicated in Azure Cloud via NetApp. Hence, all files from factories worldwide are daily replicated in the cloud. NetApp Snapshot is for data recovery, including disaster scenarios. You don't need any other solution to take your data and pull it somewhere else instead of that single NetApp storage array. You have the storage array and cloud volume objects from NetApp, connect them between themselves, and then create a task and a snapshot of these volumes that are locally in these factories. After this snapshot is completed, replicate the data into this cloud object. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
My company has a partnership with NetApp. Customers purchase NetApp for its features and everything it provides. NetApp has a very long history. It's a little difficult to compare it with other products. I do not know every product. NetApp is good, mature, stable, and delivers many useful things for its customers. Sometimes, customers purchase servers from Cisco and storage from NetApp. We configure them together. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
With NetApp Snapshot, customers would not need another backup solution for the business. It could save money since you only need to work with NetApp Snapshot without needing alternate backup solutions, like Veeam or Veritas. I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.
I rate the solution a nine out of ten. The key is good, but the next release can include developments in the step centre for bandwidth purposes. I advise users considering the solution to seek out professional integrators.
Manager - Data Center Services at TTi Power Equipment
Real User
Top 10
2020-12-20T08:03:32Z
Dec 20, 2020
We're just customers. We don't have a business relationship with the company. A lot of our data protection strategy is still centered around NetApp. We will be, over the next three years, migrating to a more cloud-enabled strategy that will still be centered around Netapp technology. We looked at all on-prem, cloud as much as possible, and a couple of points in between, but the problem with migrating from on-prem to cloud is that we were going to have to lift and shift a serious amount of data from the data center to the cloud. If you account for ingress fees and all those sorts of things, that's just part of the cost of doing that kind of business, but data availability would have been grossly impacted, and we don't have enough of a downtime window anywhere in our scheduling to effectively do that. What we elected to do was go all on-prem, one more round. Then we can figure out how to break the data transition to the cloud into smaller chunks. I bought five years of support for all my SSD-related hardware. I only bought three years for all my spinning disks. The plan is in the next three years to eliminate the need for spinning disks, but this buys me three years to move stuff to the cloud in a piecemeal fashion rather than trying to do it in a 'big bang'. I'm a big fan of NetApp. I'm not saying that they're the only storage vendor I would ever do business with. The days of the data center having one of anything are kind of passing us by. In the modern data center, we're going to end up with tiered everything. You'll have multiple public clouds. You'll have a private cloud. You'll have multiple providers for storage, multiple providers for compute. And essentially what we all end up with eventually is a data center where if somebody wants to spin up a server, they pick items à la carte off a menu with a price at the bottom of the screen and say, "Okay, I can live with that." The challenge will be to provide that level of service without incurring tremendous administrative overhead. The Snapshot technology rides along with the management interface on the controllers. I'm using 9.3, and the latest is 9.6. When we bring the new hardware in January, we will immediately follow it with an upgrade project. There are some new features that they've enabled that we can take advantage of. I'm not currently in a position to talk about what all of those are. I've done some reading and pretty much said, "Huh, that'll be cool one day," and then discarded it from my mind. We have implementation partners who will help with "Here's what makes sense for you." I'm looking forward to getting there, however, we're a couple of versions behind. They're pretty good at knowing what their marketplace is looking for. They are probably the most technologically proficient in the storage arena. There are other niche players that do one thing very well, and they might do it better than NetApp, however, when you look at storage as a whole, Netapp really stands out. It is the center of my IT universe. Everything else is helped out from it. I've got hosts that boot to it. I've got most of our VMs in NetApp volumes. If it is not in HCI, it's in the NetApp and that's probably 85% of our storage. It's significant. Between data and backup, I've got about a petabyte and a half. I'd rate it at a nine out of ten because of the searchability issue, and as I've said, NetApp may have a solution for that in a software package that I do not own. In the course of doing my job, I never have to sit there and worry about whether the storage technology is working right or not. It just does what it needs to do, and gives me the ability to focus on other things.
NetApp Snapshot is a product that we depend on and I recommend. It has helped us in the case of installations and other issues. Our main complaints are about the dashboard and configuration options. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
My advice to people who are considering NetApp as a solution is that rather than just looking at the solution and what it does, they should look at it in relation to their business requirements. I believe that the sophistication of Snapshot is not necessary for every company because of what you have to pay for it. Any company that needs to make backups can use the products from any vendor who sells a product in this category because the product is going to make the backups. The advantage you have with Snapshot, in addition, is to have the availability to make very quick backups. So even if you do not want to use the resources to backup data by uploading it to separate storage, your backup is still available for you intact within NetApp, and you can then do the uploading. So that is a very good feature. No doubt about that. But this idea of evaluating need applies to all companies with respect to what they are doing. They need to consider which product fits them. On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this NetApp Snapshot product as a ten-out-of-ten. In the case of Snapshot, you can quickly grasp how to use something within a minute by reading the documentation. Instantly, after you start using it, the process always becomes ingrained in your brain. The software is so well developed and mature that the processes are not changing often. To the best of my knowledge as someone who is using NetApp for 14 years, it is an important thing to have the processes in the application as well-thought-out and stable. Although there have been improvements over time, NetApp is a very stable application that is easy to stay familiar with. In fact, it may not be the application that needs to change so much as the clients using it. They may need to get some storage devices replaced because of the Snapshot features are so robust. That is also how NetApp gained ground in the market with that particular app: by being the leader.
We use a hybrid deployment model. If you do have a storage device, I would strongly recommend that you implement it, especially with the ransomware that's going around. It offers quick recoveries for users, especially on file servers. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
System Administrator at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-10-27T06:19:00Z
Oct 27, 2019
Our license is coming to an end shortly, at the end of the year, and we will lose the warranty so we're planning on implementing a replacement. We need to get proposals for the new NetApp or new Dell and see who is the winner. Dell has come up with other features, so there's a lot going on now. I would rate this product 10 out of 10.
If I have to rate this solution out of ten, I will give it a ten. It is a very good product and in the next version the developers can perhaps work on more automation.
System Administrator - Infrastructure Area Coordinator at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2019-09-22T06:41:00Z
Sep 22, 2019
I'm quite happy with the solution and the integration it has with other products. I would recommend it to someone considering it. I would rate it with a nine out of ten. Not a perfect ten because there is one point off to give it room for improvement.
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2019-09-15T16:43:00Z
Sep 15, 2019
On a scale from one to ten, with one being the worst and ten being the best, I would rate NetApp's Snapshot as a six or seven. The problem with offering advice about this product is that it is just a component of a system. It is almost like somebody is asking you about how skilled you are with computers. If you think that skill with computers means you can push a button and something happens, you may be very skilled pushing that one button, but the skill is just pushing a button. You can press it or not. But if you have a whole keyboard, you won't press only one button. You buy the keyboard and use the whole keyboard. Some buttons will be pressed more frequently than other buttons. But you can not have a keyboard with half of the buttons or can't use a keyboard that is missing the one button you know how to use. On a keyboard, you can not say one button is more useful than another one. A keyboard is a whole thing. The NetApp solution is not just the Snapshot solution. This is a small part of the storage system. It is very useful — just excellent — but you can not use it without storage and other parts. You need the whole solution. It would be like buying a wheel without the car. You should not pay for something you can't use or have no need for in the first place. I can answer generally about the NetApp system, and I think it is a seven.
NetApp Snapshot is a data replication software that works through snapshot copies, crucial for the recovery of data. These copies are used as safe points for rollback before upgrades or patches. NetApp Snapshot provides prompt data replication which is also highly space-efficient, and provides users with the full management and control of their data and its copies. Through the various solutions the Snapshot technology has introduced, companies receive enhanced stability, functionality, and...
If ten is the highest rating, then it's a ten. The customer use case is the only thing that depends on the configuration, that might impact the solution. Else, it is a ten on ten.
The integration requires having a specific layout, and this layout depends on how the data is moved. If you don’t have a good setup from the beginning, you may need to rearrange the data to ensure correct usage, especially if you have a huge database. I recommend the solution because it protect with no impact and recover easily. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
We use LDR and NetApp within our enterprise architecture. It exceeds both FPO and LPO standards due to the built-in technologies. Additionally, accessing a snapshot needs an LPO objective when restoring data from snapshots. We have a global presence in over 100 countries around the world. We have an on-premises presence with infrastructure as a service in more than 65 factories worldwide. These factories span continents from China to South America, Europe, and the Middle East. Each factory hosts at least one storage array that facilitates hosting our server functions and projects. We integrate with the cloud to achieve backup and disaster recovery. If a factory or an entire region experiences downtime, we have the data replicated in Azure Cloud via NetApp. Hence, all files from factories worldwide are daily replicated in the cloud. NetApp Snapshot is for data recovery, including disaster scenarios. You don't need any other solution to take your data and pull it somewhere else instead of that single NetApp storage array. You have the storage array and cloud volume objects from NetApp, connect them between themselves, and then create a task and a snapshot of these volumes that are locally in these factories. After this snapshot is completed, replicate the data into this cloud object. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
I would recommend using this solution. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
My company has a partnership with NetApp. Customers purchase NetApp for its features and everything it provides. NetApp has a very long history. It's a little difficult to compare it with other products. I do not know every product. NetApp is good, mature, stable, and delivers many useful things for its customers. Sometimes, customers purchase servers from Cisco and storage from NetApp. We configure them together. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
With NetApp Snapshot, customers would not need another backup solution for the business. It could save money since you only need to work with NetApp Snapshot without needing alternate backup solutions, like Veeam or Veritas. I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.
I rate the solution a nine out of ten. The key is good, but the next release can include developments in the step centre for bandwidth purposes. I advise users considering the solution to seek out professional integrators.
I rate NetApp Snapshot a nine out of ten.
I rate NetApp Snapshot an eight out of ten.
We're just customers. We don't have a business relationship with the company. A lot of our data protection strategy is still centered around NetApp. We will be, over the next three years, migrating to a more cloud-enabled strategy that will still be centered around Netapp technology. We looked at all on-prem, cloud as much as possible, and a couple of points in between, but the problem with migrating from on-prem to cloud is that we were going to have to lift and shift a serious amount of data from the data center to the cloud. If you account for ingress fees and all those sorts of things, that's just part of the cost of doing that kind of business, but data availability would have been grossly impacted, and we don't have enough of a downtime window anywhere in our scheduling to effectively do that. What we elected to do was go all on-prem, one more round. Then we can figure out how to break the data transition to the cloud into smaller chunks. I bought five years of support for all my SSD-related hardware. I only bought three years for all my spinning disks. The plan is in the next three years to eliminate the need for spinning disks, but this buys me three years to move stuff to the cloud in a piecemeal fashion rather than trying to do it in a 'big bang'. I'm a big fan of NetApp. I'm not saying that they're the only storage vendor I would ever do business with. The days of the data center having one of anything are kind of passing us by. In the modern data center, we're going to end up with tiered everything. You'll have multiple public clouds. You'll have a private cloud. You'll have multiple providers for storage, multiple providers for compute. And essentially what we all end up with eventually is a data center where if somebody wants to spin up a server, they pick items à la carte off a menu with a price at the bottom of the screen and say, "Okay, I can live with that." The challenge will be to provide that level of service without incurring tremendous administrative overhead. The Snapshot technology rides along with the management interface on the controllers. I'm using 9.3, and the latest is 9.6. When we bring the new hardware in January, we will immediately follow it with an upgrade project. There are some new features that they've enabled that we can take advantage of. I'm not currently in a position to talk about what all of those are. I've done some reading and pretty much said, "Huh, that'll be cool one day," and then discarded it from my mind. We have implementation partners who will help with "Here's what makes sense for you." I'm looking forward to getting there, however, we're a couple of versions behind. They're pretty good at knowing what their marketplace is looking for. They are probably the most technologically proficient in the storage arena. There are other niche players that do one thing very well, and they might do it better than NetApp, however, when you look at storage as a whole, Netapp really stands out. It is the center of my IT universe. Everything else is helped out from it. I've got hosts that boot to it. I've got most of our VMs in NetApp volumes. If it is not in HCI, it's in the NetApp and that's probably 85% of our storage. It's significant. Between data and backup, I've got about a petabyte and a half. I'd rate it at a nine out of ten because of the searchability issue, and as I've said, NetApp may have a solution for that in a software package that I do not own. In the course of doing my job, I never have to sit there and worry about whether the storage technology is working right or not. It just does what it needs to do, and gives me the ability to focus on other things.
NetApp Snapshot is a product that we depend on and I recommend. It has helped us in the case of installations and other issues. Our main complaints are about the dashboard and configuration options. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
My advice to people who are considering NetApp as a solution is that rather than just looking at the solution and what it does, they should look at it in relation to their business requirements. I believe that the sophistication of Snapshot is not necessary for every company because of what you have to pay for it. Any company that needs to make backups can use the products from any vendor who sells a product in this category because the product is going to make the backups. The advantage you have with Snapshot, in addition, is to have the availability to make very quick backups. So even if you do not want to use the resources to backup data by uploading it to separate storage, your backup is still available for you intact within NetApp, and you can then do the uploading. So that is a very good feature. No doubt about that. But this idea of evaluating need applies to all companies with respect to what they are doing. They need to consider which product fits them. On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this NetApp Snapshot product as a ten-out-of-ten. In the case of Snapshot, you can quickly grasp how to use something within a minute by reading the documentation. Instantly, after you start using it, the process always becomes ingrained in your brain. The software is so well developed and mature that the processes are not changing often. To the best of my knowledge as someone who is using NetApp for 14 years, it is an important thing to have the processes in the application as well-thought-out and stable. Although there have been improvements over time, NetApp is a very stable application that is easy to stay familiar with. In fact, it may not be the application that needs to change so much as the clients using it. They may need to get some storage devices replaced because of the Snapshot features are so robust. That is also how NetApp gained ground in the market with that particular app: by being the leader.
We use a hybrid deployment model. If you do have a storage device, I would strongly recommend that you implement it, especially with the ransomware that's going around. It offers quick recoveries for users, especially on file servers. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Our license is coming to an end shortly, at the end of the year, and we will lose the warranty so we're planning on implementing a replacement. We need to get proposals for the new NetApp or new Dell and see who is the winner. Dell has come up with other features, so there's a lot going on now. I would rate this product 10 out of 10.
We're using the on-premises deployment model. I would recommend the solution. I'd rate it nine out of ten.
If I have to rate this solution out of ten, I will give it a ten. It is a very good product and in the next version the developers can perhaps work on more automation.
We are using the private cloud deployment model. We just upgraded to the latest version of the solution. I would rate the solution eight out of ten.
I'm quite happy with the solution and the integration it has with other products. I would recommend it to someone considering it. I would rate it with a nine out of ten. Not a perfect ten because there is one point off to give it room for improvement.
This is a very good storage solution, but it is not extraordinary. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
On a scale from one to ten, with one being the worst and ten being the best, I would rate NetApp's Snapshot as a six or seven. The problem with offering advice about this product is that it is just a component of a system. It is almost like somebody is asking you about how skilled you are with computers. If you think that skill with computers means you can push a button and something happens, you may be very skilled pushing that one button, but the skill is just pushing a button. You can press it or not. But if you have a whole keyboard, you won't press only one button. You buy the keyboard and use the whole keyboard. Some buttons will be pressed more frequently than other buttons. But you can not have a keyboard with half of the buttons or can't use a keyboard that is missing the one button you know how to use. On a keyboard, you can not say one button is more useful than another one. A keyboard is a whole thing. The NetApp solution is not just the Snapshot solution. This is a small part of the storage system. It is very useful — just excellent — but you can not use it without storage and other parts. You need the whole solution. It would be like buying a wheel without the car. You should not pay for something you can't use or have no need for in the first place. I can answer generally about the NetApp system, and I think it is a seven.