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    Ananthakrishna T.

The best out there

  • August 29, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is super easy with the kind of the volume management provided. The main feature is you can mount a volume to any of the device irrespective of the OS, brand and any other thing given you have proper bandwidth is really commendable.
The license is the main thing which I thought awesome in this product, where it has been so secure and having so many properties like snap-mirror, snap-vault, NFS, CIFS, etc. really makes this one special.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price maybe a bit more than what I would have given for such a product. But since the security is really good, this have been like an ignore-able dislike.
Other thing is as I look at it, the snapshots for 7 mode systems were really slow when the reclaiming was happening, This is the one which bothered me a lot. When I was checking for any of my volumes size, it would be really high even if the snapshots are deleted and volume has enough space.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Since this is connected to cloud which is really helpful for my case who travel a lot and having this kind of storage anywhere I go really helps me and this has been one of the fastest volume mounts I have seen which can satisfy user easily.


    Christy H.

Who needs on-premise SMB

  • July 12, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The ability to quickly create high performance CIFS shares.
What do you dislike about the product?
Multiple management consoles depending on what you need to achieve
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have deferred the purchase of a further on-prem storage array


    Ian H.

All the goodness of OnTap - In the Cloud and On-premise

  • July 08, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Your investment in NetApp On-Tap is protected, and will allow you to seamlessly manage your on-premise CIFS/NFS volumes plus your adoption of new hyperscaler-hosted storage capacity.
What do you dislike about the product?
Multiple management consoles are confusing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A phased migration of legacy NFS volumes to Azure storage, and aggressive HSM requirements.


    Rajesh R.

Next Generation Storage

  • July 08, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
CVO provides the feasibility of moving (snapmirror) the data from on-prem to cloud with an option maintaining the ONTAP familiarity and efficiency features. Not required to switch to new technology/platform to maintain the data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Transit Gateway supports only 1500 MTU. In fact, the limitation is provided by AWS. Cross account access may be on network bottleneck.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My data is in the cloud now along with utilizing the storage efficiency features, which is huge profit to the organization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try using CVO and get to know the benefits of CVO, such as ONTAP efficiency features and save the cost.
Move data to the cloud and still remain a storage engineer.


    Emerson N.

Excellent solution for handling volumes on AWS

  • May 22, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
This solution can be easily managed through a web-based portal, which makes it easy to manage and monitor my volumes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some advanced features can be implemented only with CLI (command-line interface) which can be a challenge for non-advanced users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently, we are in the process of implementing this solution, but it is already possible to see benefits in terms of managing volumes from the Netapp ONTAP portal.


    Computer & Network Security

Easy for deploy and management

  • May 15, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy deploy and well integration with on prem.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have much experience to tell what I am disliking.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving data to the Cloud, and having clear cost for that - easy management and integration.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very well for tiering and cloud oriented workloads.


    Information Technology and Services

Cloud Volumes ONTAP has the rich data services NetApp customers need

  • May 14, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Support for SnapMirror, dedupe, and Flexclone
What do you dislike about the product?
The performance of CVO leaves a lot to be desired, as does the lack of scale-out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DR/Backup to and within AWS is the primary use case. For customers who rely on SnapMirror and are reaping the benefits of NetApp snapshots and flexclones, CVO is unparalleled in its efficiency both operationally and financially.


    Oil & Energy

Uniper SE CVO Trial / POC

  • May 14, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of the platform and low (ish) cost base
What do you dislike about the product?
incompatibilities between CVO and ON-premise NetApp Filers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving to a transition platform for moving files services into Onedrive and Sharepoint online
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Compare CVO to Azure Netapp Files as this may be a more performant service for your application needd


    Igor N.

Great product

  • April 29, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
No more hardware! No more maintenance pain.
What do you dislike about the product?
AWS version doesn't have Service Processor
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data Centre cost gone, don't need to deal with Support for hardware issues
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Taking all cloud advantages


    Computer Software

cvo has provided a vaiable soluion for DR offerings.

  • April 28, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The most beneficial aspect of CVO is the ability to easily scale and tailor instances to the needs of the environment. Adding disks, changing aggregates and balancing the cluster is all available with just a few clicks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Trying to manage a large environment from cloud manager is difficult. The footprint for cloud manager has to be dramatically increased in order to recognize any benefit from trying to manage on prem clusters through cloud manager.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our instance of CVO was constructed to serve as a DR storage solution for our C2 and C3 applications. The ability to quickly scale and adjust aggregates is beneficial both in terms of time and cost.