User Reviews of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays & SolidFire

The EF Series has the web services outside the box, not inside. It doesn’t have the full OS, like Data ONTAP. You have to have a proxy web service that interfaces with all of the EF Series and you develop your application through that. I would like to have that interface inside the EF Series, so we don't have any dependence on the proxy...

The initial setup requires the involvement of at least one engineer or technical expert, which indicates that it falls somewhere between being straightforward and complex. One should follow the commands provided for the installation process. In that case, it is not a very hard process since the person doing the initial setup needs to be...