NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Valuable Features
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Arash Etesami
Lead Storage Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
The number one feature is the solution's space saving, which is great.
They are on AWS and Azure. Because we use both cloud options, we have access through them from everywhere. It is a big colo facility, where we can have access to our data wherever we want.
We use NetApp technology for deduplication and compression as well as the cloning technology and Snapshot. This usually helps us to restore everything. It is really helpful.
It is a unified solution for storing data across the board. This data fabric lets us have data across the board.
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OliverJuliano
Senior Systems Engineer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
We mainly use Cloud Volumes for two features: SnapMirror and SnapVault. Those are the two that our use case requires. Data deduplication and capacity tiering are the main primary reasons we adopted the solution. The data is deduped and encrypted, and we use capacity tiering to cut down on our S3 storage costs.
View full review »The cluster needs to use a common file share, so NetApp just does that.
They provide extra security, backups, and many other features with it.
One of the most important aspects is the flexibility to expand it. It's very scalable.
We can easily file share with AWS.
ONTAP is great for helping you migrate on-premise workflows to cloud environments. I would rate it a solid eight out of ten. It does what it's supposed to do. It was just expensive.
My impression of ONTAP against native AWS integrations is that FSx is much cheaper. That said, NetApp has more flexibility. Therefore, it is competitive against AWS. NetApp has an advantage in its class, and FSx has an advantage in terms of its low cost. FSx just lacks features.
In terms of ONTAP integrations with AWS native services like AWS Backup, NetApp uses AWS, so in a way, it's already backed up. If you want to provision one terabyte being backed up, they would provision ahead of time, so that way you protect your data.
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reviewer2304738
Systems Administration at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
The ease of use in terms of how the product works is valuable. We are able to work with it and deploy the storage that we need.
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reviewer2304630
Senior Storage Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
A lot of our customers have their own cases. We create new volumes for each of those cases. One thing I have noticed is that it is very simple to move the data where we need to move it, delete it, or archive it if we need to archive it to StorageGRID.
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reviewer1808058
Technology Advisor Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
One of the features our customers like is that it can be used from one cloud provider to another. They can use it from Azure to AWS or vice versa. That way, they don't need to use the same provider for backups. If something goes wrong on the primary site, having the same data in another cloud service provider is important.
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reviewer2042514
Infrastructure Architect at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees
The ability to do a straight SnapMirror from our on-prem to the cloud with no other data transitions is excellent.
The simplicity of cloud.netapp.com has been helpful. The fact that you're managing your on-prem and cloud and Snapshots all through one UI makes it very easy.
We currently run ONTAP across multiple physical data centers, and our file services are critical for our firm. The ability to migrate and keep the status quo of protection of data and ease of management are the biggest benefits.
This meets our hybrid or multi-cloud business needs since it fits right in. We decided to go with hybrid cloud and multi-cloud. We wanted to continue working with the same vendors that we did in our physical data center. We've invested time, energy, and staff training to build those relationships. Carrying them to the cloud with little friction is critical.
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reviewer1096170
Enterprise Architect - Office of the CTO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I don't have a preference for any feature. It's meant to optimize storage and usage within the public cloud.
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reviewer2304636
Systems Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees
The primary reason for our continued loyalty to NetApp is their Snap technology, which is widely recognized as the main factor. It offers ease of use and a comprehensive suite of applications, including features like SnapMirror, SnapVault, and unified snapshot management, all bundled into a single product. With just three individuals, we're able to efficiently manage petabytes of data, which significantly reduces our operational costs.
The ability to see things going back and forth has been quite useful.
Its migration capabilities are very good.
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reviewer2304645
Systems Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency. This efficiency translates to significant cost savings for us.
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reviewer2147409
Server and Storage consultant at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very easy to set up, and within 40 minutes, you can apply storage notes in Azure.
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP uses native replication, SnapMirror, for replication between two CVOs or from on-premises to the cloud.
The SnapLock feature helps with compliance, and even a rogue admin will not be able to delete anything.
The beauty of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is that it's very easy to use.
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Randy Johnson
SysAdmin at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Snapshots are one valuable feature within ONTAP, but CVO's appeal is that it acts just like the on-prem solution. It's the same OS, but in the cloud. We can continue to use ONTAP as we did on-premise.
So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.
So one of the clients had an on-premise 100 terabytes. When that same data went to CVO, he was able to reduce it to somewhere around 20/25 dB. So he was able to reduce using DTO compression, the consumption of this underlying cloud storage. And, obviously, with the licenses, now you need only 25 terabytes instead of 100 terabytes.
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reviewer2170812
Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The auto-extension feature is good as it requires no manual intervention and once that is enabled, the auto-action option is receivable.
View full review »The volume is an amazing feature.
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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
March 2024
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