NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) Review

It has SnapManager, something Pure Storage lacks, allowing us to copy production DBs.

Valuable Features

The speed is really the most important feature for us. The SnapManager feature is also very important.

Improvements to My Organization

It will reduced query time because we have a lot of them that take a long time to execute. We created the database because we need to know which product I have available in the warehouse, and this is most important thing for me. Because we have the flash array, the queries to find this out will be much faster.

Room for Improvement

The product is great for us now.

Use of Solution

We bought it recently and use it for BI and partially for SAP. We are planning on implementing ONTAP.

Scalability Issues

It will scale to our needs.

Customer Service and Technical Support

Customer Service:

It's very high.

Technical Support:

It's been perfect so far.

Other Solutions Considered

I looked at Pure Storage and we decided to get NetApp because they have SnapManager, which Pure Storage doesn't. I need to create a copy of the production DB and without SnapManager, I cannot do this.

Other Advice

Buy it if you need the speed and SnapManager.

Which version of this solution are you currently using?

8040
**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Tech support has been absolutely amazing. I think on the technical aspects as well, my staff is able to get great support from the NetApp technical support resources that we have. What I love about NetApp is they have a health care division. At times, it's such an amazing thing because if we have a healthcare-related issue, there's no one better than having prior CIOs from health care organizations that NetApp has hired, and that are part of the health care team, to help out with any of those initiatives and support problems. Support has been absolutely phenomenal.
The valuable features are the fabric pool. We are taking our cold data and pumping it straight into an estuary bucket. Also, efficiency. We're getting about two and a half times upwards of data efficiency through compaction, compression, deduplication, and it's size. When we refreshed from two or three racks of spinning discs down into 5U of rack space, it not only saved us a whole heap of costs in our data center environment but also it's nice to be green. The power savings alone equated to be about 50 tons of CO2 a year that we no longer emit. It's a big game changer.
Its efficiency and scalability are the most valuable features.
The features that I found most valuable are SnapMirror and SnapVault; these provide DR and backup for data redundancy.
This solution has reduced our data center costs because when we went from the 8000 and 3200 series that took us from 20 racks of storage down to two.
The solution’s thin provisioning has allowed us to add new applications without having to purchase additional storage. We use thin provisioning for everything. We use the deduplication compression functionality for all of our NetApps. If we weren't using thin provisioning, we'd probably have two to times more storage on our floor right now than we do today.
The most valuable features of this solution are the deduplication and the ability to move data to different clouds.
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