NetApp HCI [EOL] Scalability

EH
Senior SAN / Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We've grown both compute and storage and do it all online. There are no concerns around scaling. Only in the factor of how large do you scale before hitting limits within VMware and Element OS/Solidfire re: performance and bandwidth (# of channels for IO).

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MB
Chief Information Officer at Lucart S.p.A.

Its scalability is very good. When we discovered that there was not enough available space, NetApp was able to install additional hardware. We can auto-configure it to get more space. So, we can easily and quickly scale if we need.

We are using it extensively. It is being used in the main data center for our group. Currently, 800 people from all departments use this solution. We do have plans to increase its usage.

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SH
Storage Engineer at University of California, Irvine

We're in the process of adding a couple of nodes now, we haven't completed that yet.

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KP
Pre-sales Solution Architect at SHI international corp

It is scalable. You could add more nodes. You have to start out with the minimum number of storage nodes. But then you could scale up as much as you want on just storage or just compute.

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SL
Vice President at Harwood International Corporation

The scalability is very good. This is a very common-sense approach to a platform that didn't exist in the marketplace. NetApp has been able to make it work where you can scale storage and compute independently of each other, and right now they continually push the upper limit of the number of nodes, but the system seems to be sized against most workloads that we see, adequately. So, they're ahead of the curve, and as they continue to push that forward and more people come to the platform, it should continue to be very successful. 

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BA
Storage Operations Manager at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's highly scalable and we love the fact that we can add storage independently or compute and we don't have to buy an entire storage solution when we have to increase capacity. That's the good thing about HCI. You can pick and choose if you want to compute or storage. It's great.

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AJ
Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We can just push a button and increase, asking to scale whenever we need it. So, it is scalable to a good extent.

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SV
IT Specialist at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Looking at the future, it will be one of our favorite tools. We will keep growing, and it's something that we want to take along with us for the long-term.

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MM
SAN Engineer at American Express

These days, most products provide a scalable solution, so scalability is generally not a problem.

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SH
Senior MIS Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability was another thing I was looking at. The solution, by its very nature, is designed to be expandable and flexible, so you don't have to buy performance you don't need today, but you're also not stuck with something you can't expand.

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SH
Senior MIS Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's scalable by design. We put in a compute unit, we've got leftover chassis, we need another one, we stick it in another compute unit. We need a bigger one, we pull the old one out, put a new one in.

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

This solution is very scalable. We can expand storage nodes or compute nodes.

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JP
Senior IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

According to what is advertised for HCI on scalability, we will be able to add additional systems on the fly. That should be a very good feature for us.

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BH
Engineering Team at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Thirty-six nodes are as big as we go right now and we have scaled them up to 36 nodes. It was not challenging at all. Just add them in and they connect right up.

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RA
Senior Network & System Administrator at UOWD

It is highly scalable. We have about 600 end-users from different departments. On the administration side, there are only four people. We plan to increase its usage.

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RD
Storage Administrator at a tech vendor
PN
Storage Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

From the looks of it, technically speaking, it looks like it can be scalable. But it's always easier said than done, until I actually bring more workloads and add more capacity to the system.

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SS
Senior Project Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Our customer can add extra nodes and keep going. I think their plan is to build it out. They have a core in Las Vegas and then they're planning on adding other nodes elsewhere.

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PR
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is very scalable.

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PC
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution's ability to scale on-demand affects provisioning in our organization. It is automated provisioning. In the old days, they would need to send an email and request the machine and it would be done manually. But using those catalogs, we can provision automatically.

The solution's ability to scale compute and storage independently does not affect capacity performance and upgrade planning in our organization because of what we do.

In all, the scalability of the solution seems better than Nutanix.

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CW
System Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We did not need to scale up and out yet, but I think when we will have the need to have additional web load, it will be quite easy because of the reset button. You just add a log.

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CF
System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability of this product is good.

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PH
Network Professional at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

I expect that the solution's ability to scale on-demand makes it pretty scalable, but I don't think we've gotten to that point yet. We are not pushing for performance so much, and probably ease of management is a bigger goal for us. That was one of the reasons we went with HCI. We were not stuck with doing compute and storage at the same time, so we can increase or decrease whichever resource makes the most sense to us.

Hopefully what the product is as advertised. We currently have four storage to computes. We're looking at putting a second HCI in another site to move toward replication.

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DS
Storage Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I am looking at trying to scale it up by adding more blades and storage in the near future.

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NS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is great because it can scale independently. It's the best in its class when it comes to scalability. Our usages vary between 300 and a few thousand users.

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Director at Citrus Consulting

The solution is incredible. We've been able to scale. We're in New Zealand, so it's difficult to say, but the progress we've seen here so far is easily scalable. I wouldn't know what it would be like in the US because we just don't compare to that scale.

Although we use it in our own company, it's mostly for our customers. We've got thousands of customers attached to it.

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JB
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scaling this solution is pretty easily done. It's a new chassis or a new node that you plug in and add to the system. There is no downtime.

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AB
IT Deputy at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

NetApp HCI is scalable. it is possible to increase the storage, nodes, CPU, and ram.

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VL
Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It is scalable. There are hundreds of users. We have quite a lot of customers using NetApp.

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SS
System Engineer with 201-500 employees

It is scalable. You can scale it with compute nodes or storage nodes, you can choose.

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