Compare Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series vs. NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS)
Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is ranked 21st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 2 reviews while NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 70 reviews. Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is rated 8.6, while NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series writes "Meets requirements for hosting our Virtual Machines in three data centers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) writes "Supported our overall business initiatives, they've done a great job with cybersecurity ". Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is most compared with Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series and NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), whereas NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is most compared with Dell EMC Unity, Pure Storage FlashArray and HPE 3PAR Flash Storage.
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The solution is very easy to troubleshoot. It's one of the most valuable features. It also doesn't take long to deploy and normally it comes with a three-year warranty. This solution is good for virtualization and meets the need for CPU and RAM requirements. | 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. The features that I found most valuable are SnapMirror and SnapVault; these provide DR and backup for data redundancy. Its efficiency and scalability are the most valuable features. The most valuable features for AFF are the speed, durability, back up, the time, the workloads that we are using currently are much faster than what they used to be. We're getting a lot of different things out of All Flash. Previously we had migrated from Dell EMC and we had a lot of difficulties moving data around. Now, if we need to move it to any slower storage, we can move it with just a vault move within the cluster. Even moving data between clusters is extremely simple using SnapMirror. The mobility options for data in All Flash FAS have been awesome. NetApp tech support is so good. Their tech support has always been so stable and the people are so good in case of any failure or any good feature that needs to be updated or features that supposedly can help with performance to improve some performance. NetApp support is one of the best that I deal with. Scalability is excellent. If we need more space, it's a no downtime solution. It's harder to get the funding than it is to get the solution itself. |
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Usually, when a part fails, we have to replace it and it takes a while. It would be better if the part could be available locally here in Kenya so we don't have to wait so long to repair the solution. In the next release, I would like to see support for Hyper-converged infrastructure. | The total cost of ownership has increased a little. I would like for them to develop the ability to detach the fabric pool. Once you've added it to an aggregate it's there for life and it would be nice to disconnect it if we ever had to. I would like to see an improvement in the high availability of the NFS and CIFS sharing during upgrade and patching; this would help to avoid downtime. The scaling needs improvement. NetApp is limited for scaling options. The bad part about having scalability is the expense. It is currently extremely expensive, to be able to scale so fast on flash. As for AFF itself, I don't have any suggestions of what I would be excited about seeing. I think that adding the support for the rest of APIs to AFF would be super handy. I think it's something that we've been waiting for for a while which would be fantastic. I would like to see the ability to include more applications from applications to managed storage. If we can have more applications or more interface in more applications, that would be great. I come tech support with difficulty because I installed NetApp for many years I know what to expect when I call. When I don't get their support tech that I'm expecting and I'm trying to get to the right one, it can get very frustrating for me personally, trying to all-flash push my way into the right person. NetApp has the right people, it's just a matter of getting to them. |
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The pricing for this solution is good compared to HP or Dell EMC. | With other options, you need to buy a couple of different products to achieve the same outcome. Our TCO has increased by 15 to 18 percent. Using NetApp, our total cost of ownership decreased by 17%. Our TCO decreased significantly because we were paying maintenance on nine different arrays throughout the country. We've condensed those down to three arrays, and our maintenance fees from the IBM product dropped by over a half million dollars a year, saving us $500,000 USD. The total cost, the pricing of it, has gone up quite a bit. Disk level encryption is already in the solution, but it is very costly. Its pricing should come down. From an application standpoint, we have seen a lot of return investment on the speeds and responsiveness of the actual storage. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) has decreased by 40 percent. |
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| ThinkSystem DE Series | NetApp All Flash FAS, NetApp AFF, NetApp Flash FAS |
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The DE All-Flash Series delivers the performance of more than 2,000 15k rpm HDDs, yet requires only 2% of the rack space, power, and cooling. Because it consumes 98% less space and power, DE Series can significantly improve the overall efficiency of your IT operations while continuing to meet your performance requirements. | NetApp AFF8000 All Flash FAS systems combine all-flash performance with unified data management from flash to disk to cloud. Leverage the Data Fabric to move data securely across your choice of clouds—enabled by Cloud ONTAP™ and NetApp Private Storage for Cloud. Plus, you get the industry’s most efficient and comprehensive integrated data protection suite, on premises or in the cloud. |
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Information Not Available | Acibadem Healthcare Group, AmTrust Financial Services, Citrix Systems, DWD, Mantra Group |
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No Data Available | Healthcare Company16% Financial Services Firm11% Retailer9% Energy/Utilities Company8% Software R&D Company19% Manufacturing Company15% Financial Services Firm14% Healthcare Company9% |
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No Data Available | Small Business11% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise77% Small Business23% Midsize Enterprise11% Large Enterprise66% |
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