NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Room for Improvement

AE
Lead Storage Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

NetApp has a big problem with the HA pair model on this solution. If you want to use it with CVO, you need to run lots of tests. The problem with HA pair and CVO is that it has a huge impact on performance. We also can't use HA pairs with CVO because the cost is higher. It is really more expensive than a single node since you have to pay for the data twice, using their single-node solution with an AWS or Azure data center and causing redundant data. We have had many meetings and discussions with our NetApp account manager and their engineers about this issue since we can't have redundant data. 

Since it is too expensive, we haven't implemented the HA pair solution. Since we don't have an HA pair solution, we make the trade off of data loss. This happened once. We were lucky that we didn't lose data because we were able to recover it.

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OJ
Senior Systems Engineer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

The encryption and deduplication features still have a lot of room for improvement. 

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Junaid Maumdar - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Devops engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The cost needs improvement. Cost should go down. If you have a company with many servers, then the cost is down. However, if you're in a situation where you only need it for one function, then the cost can be overwhelming.

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BB
Systems Administration at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

The dashboard is a little bit clunky. I like to see it a little bit more on the simplistic side. I would like to be able to create my own widgets and customize what I want to see a little bit more versus what is currently there. That would be helpful so that when I log in, I go straight to my widget or my board without going to multiple places to get to what I need to find or build.

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TP
Senior Storage Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a lot of challenges with ONTAP. We are an eDiscovery company. With ONTAP, sometimes we have issues where we are over the capacity of how many volumes we can have on a cluster. That is one of our biggest issues. The other bigger issue right now is keys. We do not have enough. NetApp itself does not give out as many volumes as keys. I do not understand that, so we have to shift and drive and do things like that to get our new data and make sure it is encrypted.

Their support and development teams can collaborate better to resolve an issue.

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LP
Technology Advisor Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have customers that are still using IBM mainframes and that very old SNA architecture from IBM. There are questions about how you interconnect the data on the mainframe side. Those requirements are just for our big customers. We have one, here in Brazil, that is very big that uses a lot of mainframe storage. But I don't know if it's worth it for NetApp to invest in developing products to include mainframes for a few customers.

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AD
Infrastructure Architect at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

We've been dealing with general pre-requisite infrastructure configuration challenges. Once those are out of the way, it is easy.

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CB
Enterprise Architect - Office of the CTO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database.

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SO
Systems Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees

My main concern with ONTAP is the rapid pace of technological advancements. For instance, NetApp introduced features that I'm still trying to find a solution for, specifically in the realm of cloud file storage services and infrastructure. There is currently no direct cloud integration, and you need to establish connections through Active Directory or access data via SIPs or NFS mounts. It would be fantastic if NetApp could offer a solution that's as user-friendly as Google Drive for seamless cloud storage integration.

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Timothy Benson - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff System Administrator at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution could be better when we're connecting to our S3 side of the house. Right now, it doesn't see it, and I'm not sure why.

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TJ
Systems Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees

There is room for improvement in tier one support, especially with potential language barriers and communication challenges.

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RJ
SysAdmin at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

I would want more visibility and data analytics where we can see anomalies within the shares within the GUI.

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Mohammed Haroon Rashid - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

There's not much scope for improvement. I think the solution is more restricted with the underlying cloud. The performance of the single instances depends on the performance of the underlying cloud resource. 

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VV
Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Some monitoring issues require improvement.

The auto alerting and monitoring should be better in the next release.

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Sergio Simao - PeerSpot reviewer
Analista de Storage at Columbia Storage

I would like to see more information about Cloud Volumes ONTAP using Google Cloud Platform on NetApp's website.

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