Compare Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series vs. NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS)
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"This solution is good for virtualization and meets the need for CPU and RAM requirements." "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." "Fewer features is not necessarily a negative as it leads to simpler operation and lower price." | "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." "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." "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." "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." "The most valuable features of this solution are snapshotting and cloning." |
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"In the next release, I would like to see support for Hyper-converged infrastructure." "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." "The features are limited." | "The scaling needs improvement. NetApp is limited for scaling options." "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." "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." "The total cost of ownership has increased a little." "We would like to have NVMe on FabricPool working because it broke our backups. We enabled FabricPool to do the tiering from our AFFs to our Webscale but it sort of broke our Cobalt backups." "Something I've talked to NetApp about in the past is going more to a node-based architecture, like the hyper-converged solutions that we are doing nowadays. Because the days of having to buy massive quantities of storage all at one time, have changed to being able to grow in smaller increments from a budgetary standpoint. This change would be great for our business. This is what my leadership would like to see in a lot of things that they purchase now. I would like to see that architecture continue to evolve in that clustered environment." "It would be very useful if we could do the NFS to CIFS file transfer, but it is not supported at this time." "The cost of this solution should be reduced." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"The pricing for this solution is good compared to HP or Dell EMC." "The pricing is fair and low compared to other products in this category." | "With other options, you need to buy a couple of different products to achieve the same outcome." "The pricing is good." "It consolidates a lot of our storage into one or two chassis, which makes money savings in our data center." "We have used the solution’s thin provisioning to add new applications without having to purchase additional storage. We use thin provisioning on all of our flash arrays at this point. It gives us the choice to be able to overprovision and take advantage of compression, compaction, and thin provisioning all at the same time. We can get more out of the purchases that we make." "I would like it to be a lot less expensive, but it's been a very good solution for us." "The price of the upgrading of the solution is high. I could buy a whole unit of All Flash FAS 300 with a shelf for around $285,000. Yet if I want to add one additional shelf, it'll cost me $275,000. So they want you to upgrade by replacing it. It's cheaper to buy a whole new unit than to just scale out. The upside is they last. AFF lasts us three or four years. So that's a good investment." "It definitely reduces costs because it simply takes less power to run these systems. While the SSDs don't take power, they are in general very big right now. So, the running cost has decreased for a lot of our customers." "We benefited from implementing all-flash by reducing our data center footprint. We took it from 30 racks to just over five. This is one of the biggest savings for us." |
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Also Known As | |
| ThinkSystem DE Series | NetApp All Flash FAS, NetApp AFF, NetApp Flash FAS |
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| Lenovo | NetApp |
Overview | |
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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Sample Customers | |
Information Not Available | Acibadem Healthcare Group, AmTrust Financial Services, Citrix Systems, DWD, Mantra Group |
Top Industries | |
Comms Service Provider38% Computer Software Company23% Manufacturing Company7% Legal Firm7% | Healthcare Company16% Financial Services Firm12% Energy/Utilities Company9% Retailer8% Computer Software Company31% Comms Service Provider22% Manufacturing Company12% Financial Services Firm5% |
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No Data Available | Small Business12% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise76% Small Business17% Midsize Enterprise10% Large Enterprise73% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series vs. NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
455,962 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 3 reviews while NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 44 reviews. Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is rated 8.4, while NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series writes "Mostly typical of production storage for virtual machines but with fewer features and a lower price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) writes "Good price to performance ratio, no latency, and simple to use". Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is most compared with Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, Dell EMC Unity XT, Dell EMC SC Series and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is most compared with Dell EMC Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, HPE Nimble Storage and HPE 3PAR StoreServ. See our Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series vs. NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) report.
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