FreeNAS Competitors and Alternatives

What do you think of NetApp FAS Series?

Primary Use Case: Enterprise Storage for: Block and file SQL Server LUNs Exchange LUNs VM Storage.  Backup of above via Snap products. • Improvements to My Organization: Rock solid reliability Easy to use Very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS. It has been over seven years with no outages. • Valuable Features: SnapManagers for SQL Exchange and Oracle SnapMirror for DR CIFS management for shares/permissions • Room for Improvement: Add wizards for newer, inexperienced users.  More modern GUI, not that it's bad.  ONTAP upgrades need to be much easier. • Use of Solution: More than five years.