NetApp FAS Series Stability

Arnaud Salmon - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at SFR

I am satisfied with the performance.

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TW
Senior Storage Administrator at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

There are rarely any issues related to lagging, crashing, or downtime. Most of the time, there might be performance issues, but more often than not, these are related to factors external to our systems, such as network issues. 

From a pure reliability standpoint, these systems can remain operational for extended periods. I recall instances where they've been up for about a year and a half without requiring a reboot.

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DC
Principal Architect Infrastructure Solutions at a recruiting/HR firm with 501-1,000 employees

The FAS series is very stable.

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Buyer's Guide
NetApp FAS Series
March 2024
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EA
Manager, System at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten.

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Martin Sandell - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer at Basefarm

It's very stable. I use it on a daily basis. I would rate it a ten. It's extremely stable.

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CA
NetApp Pre Sales Specialist at Altron

NetApp FAS Series is exceptionally stable and performs well. We have been running a metro cluster and we have not had any data downtime in 10 years.

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AdrianoSimao - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project and Infrastructure Service Manager at CEDSIF - Ministry of Finance

The stability is fine. There have been no problems to date. Since 2010 until today, we have replaced no more than seven disks, but it all depends on the facilities that you are using. I can say that based on this factor, it has been very affordable to use this solution.

In general, it's a resilient solution with good performance.

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MD
Storage Administrator at Softcell Technologies Limited

It's a stable product. No issues there.

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it_user527190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a marketing services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is very unstable. We have a lot of issues with antivirus programs interrupting us from providing services to our customer. As soon as something happens with McAfee, the customer had problems with our services.

With the 7 mode, we were okay. There was a real pass-through working correctly, so if something happened with the NT file server, the files were still being served to the customer. With cDOT, it's completely the opposite. It's completely out of service. We have a lot of service impact.

We have been delaying the CIFS transition a lot because of this.

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Synergy Computers

The solution is stable and highly available.

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Maciej-Kieliszek - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at EXnIT

The product is stable. 

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Temitope Oladeji - PeerSpot reviewer
NetApp Product Manager at Hiperdist Ltd

The product is very stable.

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Ozair Amin - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager - Infrastructure at Synergy Computers

I rate the tool’s stability an eight or nine out of ten.

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Luca Raimondi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at NUM AG

The NetApp FAS Series has good stability. I never had any issues with it, so I chose it for the second time.

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PS
Service manager at VST ECS

I would rate the stability of the product an eight out of ten.

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MuhammadAli5 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Unit Head at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution is stable. We've had no issues with it.

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CP
Sr. Infra. Support Egineer / Tech .Consultant at CANAR OFFICE SYSTEMS

The tool is stable. The only problem we normally face is hard disk failure. However, since the product alerts the spare and redundancy, it is easy to manage. We also get support.

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LS
Computer System Administrator at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is very stable. It's quite reliable. We have it going 24/7. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches, at least not that I have experienced. It's good.

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Sarthak Panchal - PeerSpot reviewer
Module Lead - NetApp Admin, CMA at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

I rate the product’s stability a ten out of ten.

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RS
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.

In my nineteen years of being a storage administrator, I have never seen NetApp storage cause significant downtime that was connected to hardware failure.

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it_user332655 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

Some issues where some of my stuff is not failing over. I’m the eighth person handling the system, and my impression is that it wasn’t configured correctly. However, I very rarely have a problem. It’s been stable.

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SR
Information Technology IT Manager Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is pretty stable. I would probably give it a six out of ten in terms of stability.

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MohamedAmr - PeerSpot reviewer
Infra Business Development Manager at GBM

The solution is stable and has good performance.

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Temitope Oladeji - PeerSpot reviewer
NetApp Product Manager at Hiperdist Ltd

It's a stable solution. The trouble we have with stability is the trouble we created ourselves. Once the system is installed and configured, it's stable. Except sometimes, we want to check out things, and they create some trouble for us. If it weren't stable, we wouldn't be investing in it for the past ten years.

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it_user3396 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at Tata Consultancy Services
AC
Broadcast Technology Director at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

I can say that it is a stable product.

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it_user332607 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Administrator at University of Central Florida

It’s been good. We haven’t had a complete outage (other than when our network the went down). We’ve had some challenges with hardware, but this was done non-disruptively with failover.

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GA
CEO at BDPR Technologies Limited

This solution is very, very, very, very stable. Notice how I mentioned "very" a few times. You can rely on this solution because of its stability.

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Sourabh Madan - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

NetApp FAS Series is stable. 

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Ramy Adly - PeerSpot reviewer
HPC & Cloud systems administrator at Brightskies

The product is stable.

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WC
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It is very stable. We use it for more than 100 petabytes. We do not have any issues. We have never lost data.

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it_user332598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer at Sirius Computer Solutions

Fairly solid 5-9 array. FAS is a solid architecture in 90% of the environments.

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FK
Assistant Director, IT at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

This is a stable solution. 

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it_user281973 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user331866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief General Manager at SVC Bank

Stability has been very good. As far as we’re concerned, we update our systems (firmware, OS) consistently, so we don’t face any problems in that regard.

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it_user331830 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at PTSO

Good overall. We’ve hit some bugs in the ONTAP code that’s caused it to crash. We’re just coming off of seven-mode, and I'm looking forward to the capabilities of CDOT.

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it_user331812 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Systems Integrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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AO
IT Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution is highly stable.

NetApp FAS Series is stable in production storage and for the high-density volume services.

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it_user332616 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I sleep well at night because of its redundancy. I hardly even know when it has a bad drive. The Call Home capability sends a message automatically if there's a bad drive to NetApp who then sends a new drive.

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it_user350622 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator - Backup & Storage Specialist at METRO SYSTEMS Romania

The most recent issue we had involves a LAN card that couldn't be set on the correct bandwidth setting. In consequence, the vendor had to replace one of the node's motherboard.

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it_user332652 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Adminstrator at SRPNet

Snap Manager v3.3.1 is a little buggy and NetApp doesn’t offer training course on it. So it could be what I’ve been taught by other people, or it’s in fact buggy, but likely a little of both. Hopefully they made improvements on 3.4.

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it_user330081 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Computer Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Pretty solid in terms of stability.

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it_user527118 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In the 20-some years I've been working with NetApp stuff, the system has caused one outage. Other than that, for any of the failure that it's had, the redundancy that is built into it, has handled the failure and left the systems up and the data available.

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it_user354033 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner Storage at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The stability is excellent.

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VF
IT Manager at a maritime company with 51-200 employees

It's very stable.

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it_user614595 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Network Administrator at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees

None whatsoever.

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it_user515505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes, we encountered stability issues with the LDAP integration and with user logins on the web front-end.

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it_user332793 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales - Regional Southern California at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

My primary selling point is stability of the solution. It provides ongoing performance, which is proven to have no degradation.

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it_user405642 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

There's an issue when you have a mix of a low-spinning disk (SATA 3TB ) and multi-protocol access (NFS, CIFS and FCP, and iSCSI). Data ONTAP performance with WAFL goes down on mid-range solutions with multi-protocol access.

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it_user332619 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer III at Providence Health & Services

It's highly reliable, but has had the occasional bug. We install patches or shut off features.

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it_user330882 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Tech-Architect, Storage at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's solid, with occasional issues that surface, but are quickly resolved. No one’s software is perfect.

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SV
Software & Services Advisor at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Caesar Malenga - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Analyst - Infrastructure at Workers' Comp

The solution is stable.

I would rate the stability of the NetApp FAS Series an eight out of ten.

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it_user527277 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a local government with 501-1,000 employees

We do not have any stability problems, whatsoever.

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it_user310452 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Not at all as the HA features are great.

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PS
Service manager at VST ECS

The product is stable. 

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it_user793935 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No stability issues yet.

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it_user332664 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Manager at Wilson Trailer

Rock solid. I’ve been at Wilson for three years and have also used it before at another company. We have a disk go out every once in a while, but no issue with FAS.

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it_user332643 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Data Storage Engineer III at University of Kentucky

It's extraordinarily stable. We had one outage one-and-a-half years ago when batteries were bad, but that was a known defect on that particular model. However, that was our fault for knowing this was an issue. We've had two outages in 10 years due to something other than operator’s error.

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it_user351141 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

It's very stable and we've had no problems in the year we have used it.

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it_user346119 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

It's very stable and I’ve never experienced any problems in 10 years.

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it_user332604 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It's pretty stable. We've only needed NetApp engineers to help with an issue once since we started using it.

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it_user332232 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's very stable.

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it_user3396 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at Tata Consultancy Services
it_user351177 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Technical Architect IT at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability is very good.

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it_user332670 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Storage Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's pretty stable, even if it runs into something freaky, it keeps going. For example, mysterious a reboot, and nobody notices. It keeps working.

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EH
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The stability is solid. You can go over 3,000 days without a reboot or any downtime. It's so stable.

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it_user829644 - PeerSpot reviewer
Berater with 11-50 employees

The stability is good.

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it_user332259 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's not on Cisco’s stability level, but it’s a 96/100.

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it_user331854 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administor at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

It's rock solid.

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MC
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I have found NetApp FAS Series to be stable.

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EE
Co-founder at Forest Technology

It is very stable. We have a lot of customers in Turkey, and we haven't got any major issues or complaints from our customers.

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SR
Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has been pretty stable. It has been pretty good, and when we have issues, the support has been great as well. 

I am pretty happy with the system, and the performance issues that we are experiencing have nothing to do with the NetApp system. It's simply because it has more load than it can handle.

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it_user352242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Technician at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's very stable.

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it_user332244 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

It just works, and when some drives go into failure status, it’s just a prediction of drive failure, letting us know when to get the drives replaced.

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it_user330924 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's been great, and there's been no issues.

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it_user627942 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Stability is very good.

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it_user520506 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues. The system is rather stable.

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Buyer's Guide
NetApp FAS Series
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about NetApp FAS Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.