We performed a comparison between NetApp AFF and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"It simplifies storage."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The most valuable features are the low latency and high-performance."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature, primarily, would be speed. That's why we got it. Storage is costly but it's very, very fast. Very efficient, very fast."
"Even though the complete workload will fill out the AFF storage box, it will give us sustained stability."
"The speed is great. That's probably number one in terms of features we appreciate."
"Easier to manage with the clustered system and everything with the newest ONTAP 9."
"The technical support is fantastic. No one else is like their team. We're happy with them."
"Snapshots, snap clones, backups, flexibility, and agility are valuable features. I like that NetApp AFF is easy to use. We can automate everything for our backups and use cases. It's fast and simple, and provides storage to all of our VMware ESX hosts. It expands easily as well."
"From my point of view, the configuration that I can sell is restricted to the EMC best practices. It is hard to make a mistake in a solution. It means the configuration has good performance and scalability options."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"Integration with VMware"
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"Good performance for VM environments"
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The admin tools and the integration with other products and clouds can be improved. It should also be easier to identify and troubleshoot problems in this solution. It takes a long time, and it should be improved."
"I think adding more features to make it more cloud enabled will help us with cloud tiering and simplify the whole cloud operations when it's integrating with our on-prem AFF products. That is one area where we would like to see more improvements from NetApp."
"Technical support is a little lackluster. Some of the issues that we've had were opening up tickets. They seem to be routed in the wrong direction or it takes one or two days to get a call back for simple tasks."
"The support documentation has room for improvement."
"One of the features that I am looking for, which is already in the works, is to be able to take my code and automatically move it to the cloud."
"This is an expensive solution that could be cheaper."
"It can get a little expensive if you need to add more disks. The cost is a pain point for us, especially in terms of expansion."
"It has not reduced our data center costs. NetApp charges a pretty penny for their stuff."
"There is an easy replication process between distinct data centers via VPLEX and/or RPA. But I hope in the future that EMC/Dell could replicate this with other types of storage."
"Poor connection to FC."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"VNX can improve by offering flexible upgrade options. It's not possible to add a single HDD to a current array and there are fixed rules to make upgrades."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
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NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. NetApp AFF is rated 9.0, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, VMware vSAN and NetApp FAS Series, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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