We performed a comparison between Azure NetApp Files and NetApp ONTAP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Zerto, IBM and others in Cloud Migration."The critical features of this solution are SnapMirror for replication, data protection, and SnapLock."
"The most valuable features of the solution is replication to another region and the performance. The solution is stable. The solution is scalable. The initial setup is straightforward."
"It has saved a lot of time. Because in the older, conventional hardware system, they need to raise a ticket to go to storage engineering, then storage engineering would increased the size. Now, it's dynamic. You don't have to do anything. This improved the time by more than 50 percent."
"One aspect of Azure NetApp Files that I truly appreciate is its remarkable performance capabilities."
"This solution definitely makes us more efficient in being able to provide storage quickly to our customers in the Azure Cloud."
"Azure NetApp Files has been stable."
"Its security and ease of use are most valuable."
"Using NetApp Files got us out of a really difficult situation quickly, effectively, and at a reasonable cost."
"It has multiple uses. It does everything in one box."
"We use a lot of SnapVault and SnapMirror features for disaster recovery and daily backups to meet SLAs."
"ONTAP has really reduced our costs because we learned that we could use our storage with fewer machines and drive down data center costs."
"It's very fast, NetApp is always dependable, so if we have an issue, they're very responsive."
"The initial setup and deployment were straightforward"
"Previously we didn't have DR, but ever since we purchased the NetApp server, we are able to use Snap Mirror and then create DR scenarios, so that's been a huge benefit. This solution has helped reduce the overall cost of storage space in our organization by allowing us to use one data center, instead of two, and then allowing us to replicate the data; so that saves us money to buy more storage. We have been able to save space by using this solution."
"The performance of the hardware is good."
"My experience with NetApp is its very easy to learn and intuitive. I can figure out just about everything."
"The pricing definitely needs to be improved."
"We would like to have backup functionality built-in so that we don't run into the issue where the replication process makes a copy of the corrupted data."
"Reserved Instances for Azure NetApp Files would improve more use cases, making them more valuable in Azure as the cost would be reduced."
"This solution would be improved with more innovation."
"We were looking for a clustered solution that has over-complicated things because we had it in AWS, which is Amazon. There was a solution for clustered NetApp. That meant there would be two NetApps that were not clustered because there was no solution for a cluster. We would like there to be an HA cluster solution."
"Azure NetApp Files could improve by being more diverse to integrate better with other solutions, such as Splunk and the on-premise version. There are some use cases that are not covered natively by Azure. It is not the best solution because it is not external from the cloud which for me is the best type of solution."
"The main hurdle in promoting this solution is the price. Its price definitely requires an improvement. It is more expensive than other options, so customers go for a cheaper option."
"I would like to see multi-zone redundancy so that I don't have to worry about it. I just back up my data to that one SMB share and I know that it's replicated to a different region."
"I would like to see more integration into the cloud, as we are pushing to do more cloud-based compute. It is just easier to get the storage and everything synced up there and move to the cloud. We want NetApp to keep down the cloud integration path. It still needs some improvement. Overall, there needs to be more cloud integration in all NetApp products."
"It takes them a few seconds to do a failover. I hope they can reduce this to milliseconds or at least drive it down to less than two seconds. Some of their competitors are already doing this."
"The GUI of NetApp ONTAP is an area with certain shortcomings that need to be considered for improvement."
"We had a few small issues with setup, but once everything was done it just worked."
"With our current use case, we will need something faster. E.g., if you have a huge scale, having SSD-based backup is better."
"I would like to see more integration of the features with the CIFS and SMB Protocols. We also want integration with iSCSI."
"The initial installation could've been quite easy, but there was a lot of miscommunications with professional services and there are a lot of details that they didn't quite provide which caused a very complicated installation."
"I would like more security against the malwares, spyware, and ransomware. I feel like ONTAP is a bit lacking in this area."
Azure NetApp Files is ranked 3rd in Cloud Migration with 12 reviews while NetApp ONTAP is ranked 1st in Storage Software with 73 reviews. Azure NetApp Files is rated 8.4, while NetApp ONTAP is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure NetApp Files writes "We can expand our storage on-the-fly without the need to reprovision". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp ONTAP writes "The on-ramp for all things Netapp". Azure NetApp Files is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Nasuni, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Dropbox, whereas NetApp ONTAP is most compared with DataCore SANsymphony, Dell PowerPath, StorONE Storage-as-a-Service and Kodjin FHIR Server.
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