Owner - Sales Manager / IT Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
MSP
Top 5
2024-05-16T14:32:00Z
May 16, 2024
Multiple tasks in the solution are made by the command line and the GUI can be improved to perform complex tasks. The existing GUI in the solution is able to handle common cases but most of the time the CLI needs to be used along with it. In the future version of the tool, a window or interface can be integrated that shows progress in real-time, independent of the management. For example, if you have a dedicated place where you monitor all your systems, I would like to view the SnapMirror status to check how much data is replicating in real time and receive a bunch of graphs around it. I would expect the next release of NetApp SnapMirror to have better monitoring features.
Module Lead - NetApp Admin, CMA at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
2023-08-03T18:06:24Z
Aug 3, 2023
We are working based on the environment. If the client wants to move to a higher version or a more capable on-premise product, we must be able to integrate Flash Pool with SnapMirror.
The NetApp storage is entry-level storage. I'd like to see compression and deduplication and encryption improved, and I'd like to have real-time replication so I have a zero RPO. Snapshotting always creates a delay so if they could come out with a block-by-block replication, that would be great.
System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Real User
2019-10-21T17:16:00Z
Oct 21, 2019
The price needs to be improved. It is not that it is too high, but it would be good to be reduced. There is new technology available that is using storage called NVMe with the drives. We are now using a scanning device called a Standard SATA Drive.
This solution is stable but needs improvements with the network. In the next release, I would like to see data reduction included and WAN optimization.
Senior Application Engineer Presales Support at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
Reseller
2019-10-02T11:08:00Z
Oct 2, 2019
We have different families of storage, such as the E-Series and Flash systems, but NetApp cannot be set up between them. Currently, there is only a command-line interface, but some users would benefit from the inclusion of a graphical user interface.
Senior Infrastructure Architect at Proact It Norge As
Real User
2019-09-15T16:43:00Z
Sep 15, 2019
The product itself doesn't have any big issues. What is lacking and what we need to use other products for, is to have active data centers. You need to implement another solution for it, but that is also available from NetApp. So I don't think there is an option to put that into SnapMirror either. It's lacking that functionality but it's available with other solutions from the same vendor.
System Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2019-09-15T16:43:00Z
Sep 15, 2019
The user interface could be simplified. They might want to have fewer options on it, to make it less complicated. There are a lot of options we never use ourselves. They're often very specialized and don't apply to us.
At the moment, we are not using the synchronous mirror, but we can implement the synchronous mirror. The only thing is that it needs another license. This is the same issue we have with business continuity. It needs another license to be implemented. You need too many separate licenses for the features. They should add some of the aspects of the premium bundle into the basic bundle. Sometimes our customers choose other replication services because of the initial cost of the licenses.
Sr. Manager - System Analyst (Datacenter Infrastructure) at Bank Sohar
Real User
2019-09-11T10:13:00Z
Sep 11, 2019
It is not as efficient as it needs to be. It doesn't compress the data really well when it is forwarded to a secondary site. The download performance could be better. Our company is Oman, and there is a ticketing problem here. If there are issues, we have to go to the partner who did the implementation. We need to contact the partner, then the partner has to get the log, and then they will raise the ticket on our behalf. After that, the tech support team contacts the partner and then it gets to us. We would like to get support ourselves or the ability to directly log the ticket or even call without having to go through the partner. We want to report the problem to tech support directly and then take it from there. In terms of improvements for the solution, I think they already have a different product, AFF, where you can get much better performance and more combination as well as data security and data savings, if they have a different protocol already, which they are lacking now.
NetApp SnapMirror technology provides fast, efficient data replication and disaster recovery (DR) for your critical data. Use a single solution across all NetApp storage arrays and protocols. SnapMirror technology works with any application, in both virtual and traditional environments, and in multiple configurations, including hybrid cloud.
They could make continued enhancements in integration with diverse platforms for the product.
Multiple tasks in the solution are made by the command line and the GUI can be improved to perform complex tasks. The existing GUI in the solution is able to handle common cases but most of the time the CLI needs to be used along with it. In the future version of the tool, a window or interface can be integrated that shows progress in real-time, independent of the management. For example, if you have a dedicated place where you monitor all your systems, I would like to view the SnapMirror status to check how much data is replicating in real time and receive a bunch of graphs around it. I would expect the next release of NetApp SnapMirror to have better monitoring features.
The price could be cheaper.
We are working based on the environment. If the client wants to move to a higher version or a more capable on-premise product, we must be able to integrate Flash Pool with SnapMirror.
The solution's dashboard and reporting could be improved.
The NetApp storage is entry-level storage. I'd like to see compression and deduplication and encryption improved, and I'd like to have real-time replication so I have a zero RPO. Snapshotting always creates a delay so if they could come out with a block-by-block replication, that would be great.
The price needs to be improved. It is not that it is too high, but it would be good to be reduced. There is new technology available that is using storage called NVMe with the drives. We are now using a scanning device called a Standard SATA Drive.
This solution is stable but needs improvements with the network. In the next release, I would like to see data reduction included and WAN optimization.
We have different families of storage, such as the E-Series and Flash systems, but NetApp cannot be set up between them. Currently, there is only a command-line interface, but some users would benefit from the inclusion of a graphical user interface.
The new coursework models need to be improved. The bandwidth monitoring could also be better.
In the next release, I would like to get an active IP number solution.
The product itself doesn't have any big issues. What is lacking and what we need to use other products for, is to have active data centers. You need to implement another solution for it, but that is also available from NetApp. So I don't think there is an option to put that into SnapMirror either. It's lacking that functionality but it's available with other solutions from the same vendor.
The user interface could be simplified. They might want to have fewer options on it, to make it less complicated. There are a lot of options we never use ourselves. They're often very specialized and don't apply to us.
At the moment, we are not using the synchronous mirror, but we can implement the synchronous mirror. The only thing is that it needs another license. This is the same issue we have with business continuity. It needs another license to be implemented. You need too many separate licenses for the features. They should add some of the aspects of the premium bundle into the basic bundle. Sometimes our customers choose other replication services because of the initial cost of the licenses.
It is not as efficient as it needs to be. It doesn't compress the data really well when it is forwarded to a secondary site. The download performance could be better. Our company is Oman, and there is a ticketing problem here. If there are issues, we have to go to the partner who did the implementation. We need to contact the partner, then the partner has to get the log, and then they will raise the ticket on our behalf. After that, the tech support team contacts the partner and then it gets to us. We would like to get support ourselves or the ability to directly log the ticket or even call without having to go through the partner. We want to report the problem to tech support directly and then take it from there. In terms of improvements for the solution, I think they already have a different product, AFF, where you can get much better performance and more combination as well as data security and data savings, if they have a different protocol already, which they are lacking now.