NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays Valuable Features

VP
CTO at acdc LED Ltd.

The simplicity of the project and the storage opportunities are valuable. Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market. We've implemented more than ten systems similar to this, and they all function seamlessly. We've even tested them with an end-to-end fiber channel over Ethernet on the six hundred series, and everything operated smoothly.     

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

The most valuable features of the solution are that it has NetApp Snapshot capacity and it offers resilience in recovering files. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is the best solution for storage purposes in the market if you currently face any storage problems.

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

The most valuable feature for us is its low latency, which is the main reason we bought it. We had performance issues before, and this was a great solution to those problems.

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Synergy Computers

Its cost-effectiveness is a major selling point. Compared to other storage vendors, the EF-Series offers excellent value for its price. It's truly a leading product in the industry.

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

The hardware and software of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy for us to use.

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PR
Senior Systems Engineer at Indra

In terms of which features I've found most valuable, this includes rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas - their cloning tools.

Also, the deployment is very quick and very simple.

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

I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance. That's why we're using NetApp to run our business. For example, with databases. We run a lot of Oracle databases that rely on performance because we want to have the business application respond within a certain amount of time for business transactions.

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SS
System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees

Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features.

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

The most valuable feature is just the speed. Our databases perform much better since we moved over to it. That's really our value. We use it for SQL and Oracle. The DBAs are happy.

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

The most valuable feature is its speed. We had a bake off with another product in our data center, and it blew it away, without any question. It was about 100% faster than the XtremIO. It was just pure speed.

We use it for our VDI environment, and have not had any complaints with it.

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

Some of the valuable features include MetroCluster switchover, in terms of disaster recovery, it is easy to use, and flexible.

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it_user527178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Storage Engineer at Columbia HCA Healthcare

The ease of use is the most valuable feature; something that we can use for a flash and all-flash type of environment that we can really put a heavy workload on. It gives us an environment to where we can really push a lot harder. We have multiple vendors in our establishment. We have NetApp, EMC, IBM, HP; we have pretty much all of them.

We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications.

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

Being able to partition different virtual volumes of storage is really valuable for us. It is pretty simple to manage.

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VP
CTO at acdc LED Ltd.

The main advantage of this solution is performance. 

This solution does not have any compression or deduplication, but instead gains better performance through concurrency.

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EK
Senior Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
it_user750591 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The ease and the simplicity of setting it up. The managing and the administration's quite easy. It's easy to provision the storage.

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it_user750729 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at Marq Solutions

I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse.

Having low latency is always key, so if I had to rate it, I would rate it a 10 out of 10 of getting the best out of what we can - the best performance and low latency.

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

It's a way to get relatively low-cost, very high-performance, low-latency block storage as a point solution. We've been using it to target database applications where there are particular files that really need more performance than we're able to give with our other products right now.

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MC
Engineer at ALC Vitalyur

The most valuable feature of this solution is its speed. 

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

Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable. When a request comes in a for an application that requires something on flash, I have the EF to go. I know that whatever the application is, it can't beat it.

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it_user550305 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at Pennwell Corp

For us, the most valuable feature is the performance. We have a very strong SQL workload that was struggling on several other providers, and it solved that problem for us.

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

One of the most valuable features is the overall performance it provides. You're able to throw a pile of IOPS at it and it will handle that without much issue.

We had a beefy SQL server that was trying to pull a large number of transactions all the time and it was causing problems on our production SAN environment. They wound up deciding they wanted to go with EF specifically for that and haven't had any problems ever since.

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

The most valuable feature for us is the ability to move the workload between peers. It also has a huge advantage of helping us cut down on power consumption.

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

It's fast! It can perform one million IOPS.

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

It's pretty easy. If you ever have to add another target, it's pretty easy to go through, you just add a new one, map the drives out to our ESXi host, and then we're all set and good.

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

The speed is the most valuable feature. It's a really good system. It's really fast; the speed's the best thing. It's one thing we love. Everybody wants to have everything faster and faster and faster. Knowing the speed's there, that's the best thing, along with the size and storage. I'm interested in the new stuff that's coming out, with the 32 terabytes. It will be interesting.

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

The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance of the database access.

It's simple in operating and for maintenance. Also, they provide a warranty for the I/O output.

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it_user1013601 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at ICTeam

What I really like about this solution is that it is easy to use and the implementation was straightforward. The availability is another feature that stands out for me, as it offers a variety of ways to connect to our customers. 

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it_user750588 - PeerSpot reviewer
It Team Lead at a tech services company
  • The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature.
  • It's been very reliable so far.
  • Its high performance for the VMware volumes that we host. It has multiple applications dedicated to it because of the different guest host that are on it.
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SS
Technical Advisor at Synnex Metrodata Indonesia

The solution is very good. It offers very good performance, and very good data services to customers. 

The ONTAP is excellent. 

SnapMirror is very useful. It allows the customer to be able to see the entire relationship. It's one of the best features of the product.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

For the most part, the solution is stable.

The technical support has been pretty good for the most part.

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MC
Engineer at ALC Vitalyur

The stability, speed, and reliability are the solution's best features. The information is also very secure.

The user interface is very intuitive.

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MY
IT Systems Engineer at Adaptive Solutions

The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload. This feature is unique to this vendor and the competitors do not have it.

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it_user712191 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Head For Hpc And Big Data at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • It provides multi-protocol, which is what gives the edge when it comes to big lineage PC workloads.
  • It also gives you a very good throughput using the controllers.
  • It is a pretty stable product; it never fails.
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VM
IT Storage Specialist - Solutions Architect at Sorint.Lab

The most valuable features are those that involve the replication process and mirroring. These are very valuable for safeguarding data.

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

The capacity is very good and better than in past models.

The management software is very good. It supports reporting and different policies that are useful.

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All-Flash Storage
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