NetApp ONTAP Stability
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Gregg Norton
Manager - Data Center Services at TTi Power Equipment
Rock solid and bulletproof.
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reviewer1801533
Storage Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
In terms of performance and reliability, NetApp ONTAP is fantastic. If you look at it, and if you go with NetApp now, everything you will get as compared to other storage, NetApp is extremely stable and reliable storage.
In comparison to IBM and Dell EMC. As a result, NetApp is a fantastic tool in my opinion. If you have to do anything, it will be simple, and you will not have to worry about your NetApp data. If you think about it, there are disasters over there, and my data will be lost or something like that, but there is nothing to worry about.
View full review »I'd rate it a 10 out of 10 in terms of stability.
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NetApp ONTAP
April 2024
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Kevin Holbrook
Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We've had just one failed disk in the last five years since I deployed the solution.
I rate NetApp ONTAP a nine out of ten for stability.
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David Boone
Operations and Server Manager at Denver Health
Stability is very strong. We had an issue and after FlexPod looked at the solution, FlexPod was running well. What is important is the partnership that we have with NetApp. While we were trying to identify a problem, even though the problem had nothing to do with NetApp storage, NetApp came in and helped us resolve that solution. They had a team come in, evaluate, identify where the problem actually was and gave us a fix for it. That was very critical given the situation of the outage that were occurring at the time.
View full review »I rate the solution's stability a six out of ten. Though NetApp should run 24x7, 365 days a year, we have had five downtimes in a year.
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Pratap Guduru
Chief Administrative Officer at a government with 10,001+ employees
It's stable. It has good monitoring tools to help monitor activity and take action if necessary.
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SeniorSte931
Senior Storage Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc.
Stability is very good.
View full review »It is stable and reliable.
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Oliver Fuckner
Systems Administrator at STRATO AG
Stability is really great. It's awesome. Of course, we have hardware failures, but they really work great. The failover mechanisms do what they should do and, we are very satisfied with that.
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StorageM26ed
Storage Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It's a stable product. So far, we have not seen any issues. It has worked as expected, meeting our expectations.
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reviewer2147409
Server and Storage consultant at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
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Brad Schlicht
Infrastructure engineer at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
Some of their products have been really good for us, on certain versions. We've run into a bunch of verts, though. That's NetApp's word for their bugs. Stability has been the main complaint that I've had with the product. Because it's so feature-rich and has so much software related to it, it does come with a decent amount of bugs so we do a lot of upgrades to patch bugs.
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reviewer950775
Storage Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It works. It is great and reliable. We haven't had any issues. Hardware failure is rare. We have no performance issues with our AFF.
When a disk failed, it was automatically detected. They sent me a disk and I wasn't even aware of it. It happened on Sunday and they sent me a disk on Monday morning.
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Nana Esigyan
Storage and Backup Manager at Vodafone
Stability and performance have been great.
Sometimes it takes a while for us to upgrade. We need to ensure the applications running are compatible with the upgrades that we will be running. So, it takes us a little time to upgrade. However, all the upgrades, including the latest one (ONTAP 9.4), have been awesome.
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ErezShachaf
Storage Manager at mEKOROT
My impression of the stability of the solution is very high. We don't have any problems.
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Manager1516
Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Stability has been good so far. We haven't had any major issues, which is what we want.
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Sal Rodriguez
Systems Architect at University of San Diego
It is very reliable. We have not lost one byte of data. There was even an occasion about three months ago where one of my nodes went down. It was recovered and nobody even noticed.
I don't worry about stability. Even when a disc goes bad, I know it will replace itself. NetApp will send me an email, “We'll send you this tomorrow.”
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Architec68b9
Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It has been very stable. We haven't had a significant outage. We do take time and test as if we were going to go down, but we haven't gone down yet.
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Dinakar Puzhikunnathu
Storage Lead at Tata Consultancy Services
We had initial hiccups. Initially, we thought it was because of the way the knowledge was transitioned from the earlier support team to the new support team. We even doubted why we migrated. Later on, we learned it had to do with configuring it in the right way. Once you have everything set up properly, you should see the performance and stability that you hoped for. We are on the right track.
View full review »I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten. We do not face any glitches or downtime.
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StorageE3d80
Storage Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has been very stable. Otherwise, we wouldn't have put our mission-critical applications on it.
We can do upgrades without taking it down. We have had nodes fail and people just kept working.
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IT6da6
System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I've never had an issue with it. Same with the upgrades, we have had no issues from 8.2 to 8.3 to 8.4. The stability has been great for four years.
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reviewer1223520
Principal Systems Engineer - Datacenter Services at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
The standard allowance for HA (High Availability) is really good. We do not have many usage problems with that. For the MetroClusters, we have had some problems with latency related to some calls on the backend. But besides that, it usually is a very stable environment in the MetroClusters.
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Manikanta Vemula
SAN Engineer at American Express
I have never had an outage.
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LeadSysEb1b2
Lead Systems Engineer at CACI International Inc.
Stability is great. We have a six-node cluster. We've done head swaps. We've had failures and the cluster has always stayed up and the data has always been available. We haven't lost any data either.
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SystemsA29d1
Systems Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability is very good.
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Peggy Balaberda
Storage Tech at General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada
Stability is great. It's very stable. A couple of times we've had to reset some of the settings. We just go look on the web and it tells us that we just have to turn certain settings on or off and everything's back up for the web. That's the only time we've only not had the web interface come up, but all the other times it's there. If it's not there, the NAS is having problems, we have bigger problems than just ONTAP. Otherwise, ONTAP is very stable, it's always there. It's great.
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SystemsA85df
Systems Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is stable. We usually don't have any issues with it. Our updates have been solid.
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Miguel Gonzalez
Senior Engineer at Alliant Credit Union
We have experience a number of bugs recently. The company has also gone through recent changes which has affected stability.
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SanEngina866
SAN Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is good. They have point in time recovery, and they don't have any single point of failures.
The FAS series is good. In addition, they have around 10Gs for management, which is nice.
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StorageE29df
Storage Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees
We're happy with the stability and performance. They are very powerful machines.
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reviewer1984002
Regional Sales Manager at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is great. I'd rate it ten out of ten. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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StorageMae6d
Storage manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It's very stable. We never had any data corruption or data loss, so, it's been very stable.
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Justin Rister
Director of IT at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
It's very stable. We've had no issues with it in six years of using it now. We have eight different devices and the stability has been awesome. The only failures we've had are drive failures and they normally have those shipped out before we even know there was a problem.
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StorageE77ac
Storage Engineer at a individual & family service with 501-1,000 employees
The data is always available. I haven't had a disaster using NetApp products, at least the NetApp FAS systems. It's very stable and highly protected.
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Vp7dd8
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
On average, the data that lives in the ONTAP hardware is there for four to six years and then it moves on to its end-of-support-life years. When it gets there, it tends to have a greater number of hardware breaks and failures. From a data perspective that's a big risk for us.
As part of tech refresh, we plan the data movement. One year before it gets to the end-of-support-life, we predominantly migrate it into a CDOT, or some other latest all-flash technology that NetApp provides us.
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Harikrishna Kamma
Storage Engineer L3 SME at Dimension Data
It has super stability, it works perfectly.
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John Kinkead
Technical Analyst at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's very stable.
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Adam Sando
Enterprise Solutions Specialist at Lenovo (United States)
ONTAP is now in its ninth version. It's the most robust software on a storage platform on the market at the moment. I don't think anyone else has the same capability with the same level of flexibility.
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ITEnginebc32
IT Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's been running for years and years and we haven't seen any issues.
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Antoine Roseman
CEO at RACTSOL CORP
The stability is great.
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SystemAn957c
Systems Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The stability is great.
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Mark Ramdas
Storage Engineer at Bank of NY
It is very stable. Given you have so many nodes in a cluster, the volumes, connections, and lifts can be moved anywhere within the cluster.
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Rob Cargill
Technical Director at Venn IT Solutions
The stability of our ONTAP system has been awesome over the last four to five years, particularly with the software. The controls have been excellent as well. We recently went through a view of all of our systems and found a number of them had been up, over three years without any sort of reboots or downtime. We have been very happy with the stability of the systems.
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SystemsE2ad9
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The system stability has been good.
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reviewer1437054
Senior Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
NetApp is very stable, this is why we went with this product.
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reviewer1469070
Senior IT-Ingenieur at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I would say it's really stable. We have almost no downtime because of storage outage. Sometimes the network interface fails, but I have almost nothing negative to mention about the storage itself, with the controller.
View full review »It is very stable and never crashes. During maintenance, it's easy to do. If you lose connectivity, it has one-sided redundant connectivity on the back-end for shelves, which is good.
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Sasi Chaseendran
Storage Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It is stable.
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Infrastr6375
Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's 100 percent. We've never had any issues with it.
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ITManage5bab
IT Manager at a non-tech company
It is very stable. You can trust NetApp almost 100% that it will work fine. The disks are stable and our data is safe with NetApp.
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SeniorMa64e6
Senior Manager Computer Storage at a individual & family service with 501-1,000 employees
Stability is good. We haven't had a severe outage in years.
View full review »It's pretty stable. There have been some random crashes we have had though, from a couple weird things.
There always seems to be some random bug in the code. If there is a random bug in the code, it seems like we have so many of these storage arrays that one of them is going to experience a crash from it. We have had a couple like that, zombie deletes, causing the controller to panic. We have had a couple weird things like that.
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SeniorDi6143
Senior Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is generally very stable.
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reviewer948963
Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We have other flash arrays which seem solid, but we trust NetApp to deliver us the best product.
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Amir Khan
Storage Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is excellent.
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Executiv37d6
Executive Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable, and upcoming releases will make it more stable.
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reviewer1467219
Virtual Private Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I've been working with the solution for ten years, and I've rarely had any issues. I consider the product to be extremely stable. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's good.
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James Warthen
Unix Admin at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability's perfect because I have two nodes, I'm not overloading the nodes because it's just R&D and it's very specific lines, so it's a lot of terabytes but we're not in petabytes. For what I do it's very stable.
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SystemAd65ac
System Administrator at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
The stability is perfect. Even when we are doing upgrades to the ONTAP cluster, such as rolling upgrades where one node will take over the other cluster's volumes, we have zero downtime.
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TechArch8d9f
Technical Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very stable.
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Arman Goudarzi
Data Center Administrator at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The solution is certainly reliable. In the two or three years that we have worked with it we have not encountered any problems.
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SystemsE3b25
Systems Engineer at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
We serve out data from a multitude of different properties through FlexPod environments, as well as a centralized data serving location in the Las Vegas area. We have had minimal downtime over the past five to ten years that we have been using the product.
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SystemEn7a60
System engineer at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
I find it to be very stable. I don't think it has gone down at all since we started using it, two to three years ago.
View full review »Today, the stability is very good.
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Software67e0
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
If you have huge data, you will see stability issues. Since we didn't have that data, our stability has been fine.
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Ernesto Silvera
Pre Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It has almost 100% stability.
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SysEng5d16
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very stable, and definitely become more stable over time. When Clustered Data ONTAP first came out, there were quite a few bugs. However, with the latest releases, we have been pretty happy.
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StorageE1250
Storage engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It's been stable. We've been using NetApp for a long time and we've never really had any major issue with it.
Buyer's Guide
NetApp ONTAP
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about NetApp ONTAP. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.