NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays Stability

VP
CTO at acdc LED Ltd.

In our fifty years of use, we haven't encountered any issues. We haven't needed to change drives; we installed the system, and it operates smoothly. Our only action is to add new drives when our storage capacity decreases.

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Enric Cuixeres - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Technology at Leng-d'Or

It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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it_user351147 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer IT Enterprise Infrastructure at PAREXEL

It's very stable, and we've never had any problems with stability.

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Synergy Computers

It's a highly stable product. I'd rate it a nine out of ten.

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SA
Information Technology Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is stable.

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PR
Senior Systems Engineer at Indra

Until now we have not had issues on the four databases, the four storage units we are using.

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it_user527229 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Internet Services Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

As you know, NetApp is very famous for HA and failover, so stability is not a problem with FAS in the past and then now the EF Series as well. They always have hot dual controllers that we can rely on if there are some issues with the hardware; it can still fail over to get the business going. We don't have any problems with that. However, we also have another layer where we rely on technologies such as Oracle. Oracle has multiple technologies to keep the business going and rely less on the hardware redundancy. For example, Oracle has GoldenGate technology, Data Guard and so on, so that’s another layer that we're using.

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SS
System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees

It is very stable.

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it_user527328 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Unix Storage Group at Stony Brook Medicine

We've had it up and running for two years and have had no problems with it; stable for us.

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RS
Senior Server Network Enginner at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not had any stability issues with it. We actually have two shelves for over a year now. It does not give us any problems. We're not even really pushing it either. That's kind of the other good side of it. It's got a lot of capacity, a lot of IO availability, and bandwidth. It just works.

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AO
Manager, Cloud workload Migration & Onboarding Lead at Globe Telecom

In my experience I found the solution to be stable. 

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it_user527178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Storage Engineer at Columbia HCA Healthcare

We have not had an outage with it yet. Other vendors, we have. We've had an actual high-end frame completely go down on us.

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OC
Assistant Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

The solution is pretty stable. We haven't had many issues with it.

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EK
Senior Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We found it very stable.

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it_user750591 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It seems very stable. We've only had it a couple of months.

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it_user750729 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at Marq Solutions

So far, it looks good in terms of stability. It is easy to manage driven by new technology driven, Raytech. Having a singular thing to manage everything and hopefully optimizing the user experience altogether without the need to uplift and remove the expand.

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it_user527274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Operations at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've really had no issues. It's been a very stable product for us.

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YA
IT Engineer at Agiba Petroleum Co.

This is a stable solution.

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MC
Engineer at ALC Vitalyur

It's very stable.

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it_user527079 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Systems Admin at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

It’s a stable solution. We have not had an outage in a year and a half.

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SS
Technical Advisor at Synnex Metrodata Indonesia

The stability so far has been very good. It's a reliable solution. For AFF, I still have not noticed any bugs, for example.

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it_user550305 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at Pennwell Corp

We have not had any down time with it at all. We had one controller failure in the two-and-a-half years, and was able to have that replaced with zero down time.

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it_user527082 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Reliability has been really good.

No problems with stability; every upgrade we've ever done went off without a problem. We were able to do it live to the failover.

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it_user352236 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Infrastructure Manager with 501-1,000 employees

9/10 - The problem is about the failover of the interfaces for some problems. We had some issues last week because of the interface of a cluster physically remained up, but we had a report noting issues with traffic management on it.

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it_user351156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Ahd Hellweg Data GmbH & Co. KG

We've had no problems with stability. It runs consistently.

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it_user750573 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a hospitality company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It hasn't gone down. We have no issues. I'm not their storage admin, so he'd probably know a little bit more about it, but we haven't experienced any major issues that I'm aware of.

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it_user527343 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Storage Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I think stability is really good. We just started using them now. We're just getting into it. We're getting more and more systems as we go along. So far, everything has been stable; we have not had any problems. It's all new.

We never used flash arrays or anything like that before. This is all SSD and this stuff is all new to us.

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Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is stable. All-Flash has drives that are very stable. If dropped it's not broken. It's not the same as a hard drive and the old-style hard drive. It won't be damaged by a power surge.

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it_user1013601 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at ICTeam

We've used the NetApp EF-Series for ten years and it has been extremely stable. 

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it_user750588 - PeerSpot reviewer
It Team Lead at a tech services company

It's been very stable so far. Once it was set up, it's was extremely stable.

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MC
Engineer at ALC Vitalyur

The solution is very stable.

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MY
IT Systems Engineer at Adaptive Solutions

This solution is very stable. We use it for our critical workloads and it is used on a daily basis.

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it_user712191 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Head For Hpc And Big Data at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Stability is excellent.

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VM
IT Storage Specialist - Solutions Architect at Sorint.Lab

The stability of the solution is quite good. We do not have problems with the stability.

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CS
Associate Executive - Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The All Flash Array is stable and highly available.

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All-Flash Storage
March 2024
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