We use BlueXP to manage the data in our two data centers and on the cloud.
NetApp Intelligent Services
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It simplifies management and helps us deal with our customers' classification issues
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
The primary benefit is that it simplifies data management. We face a lot of classification issues with our customers. They need to classify data, but they don't know how to do it. We can help them do it using BlueXP Datasense.
What is most valuable?
The data migration tools are excellent. Once you have clusters in Blue XP, everything is easy. It's perfect for the guys in our office who don't understand storage as much because they don't need to go into system manager. They can use BlueXP to drag and drop things instead of configuring things the old way. It's a great graphical difference. BlueXP offers a unified control panel that does just about everything we need right now. Everything is integrated so well.
What needs improvement?
The VMware capabilities can be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have used BlueXP since it came out a year ago, but we previously used it when it was called Cloud Manager.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is acceptable. I've never had an issue with it. The performance depends on where you install it. We primarily install it locally. Most people use on-prem NetApp, so the performance comes down to their box.
How are customer service and support?
We provide level one and two support for NetApp to our clients in New Zealand. We only deal with the vendor when it gets to level three.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used Cloud Insights when it was a standalone tool before it was integrated into BlueXP. The integration with BlueXP makes it even better.
How was the initial setup?
In the cloud, I can just provision it, so it's simple. On-site, I can spin up a Linux VM and install Linux in half an hour.
What was our ROI?
We see a return from having the ability to do things very quickly. We can work faster by dragging and dropping things around instead of using the command line or the standard system manager GUI. We had a customer who didn't know that it could migrate from the ONTAP solution we had in New Zealand to San Francisco. He's now doing that.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
BlueXP itself is free. For other things, it comes down to how much you're willing to spend on things like Cloud DataSense. If somebody sees the value in it, they'll buy it. We struggle in New Zealand trying to sell these features to people.
What other advice do I have?
I rate BlueXP 10 out of 10.
sr system admin
What do you like best about the product?
Ontap is easy to use. Customer support is active.
What do you dislike about the product?
Just now started using ONTAP and found useful, not yet any issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provide Block Storage
Netapp ontap review
What do you like best about the product?
User friendly interface , powerfull cli , performance , availability and solution oriented nas storage
What do you dislike about the product?
Gui is changing so often . At the the end, cli is enough.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nas area solution.
Review of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
What do you like best about the product?
Seamless Cloud Integration: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP seamlessly integrates with leading cloud platforms, allowing for easy and efficient data management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This flexibility ensures a smooth transition to the cloud while leveraging the benefits of on-premises infrastructure.
Advanced Data Management Capabilities: The platform offers a wide range of robust data management features, including deduplication, compression, thin provisioning, and data tiering. These capabilities help optimize storage efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance overall performance.
High Availability and Data Protection: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP prioritizes data availability and protection. Its built-in data replication and snapshot capabilities provide reliable disaster recovery options and ensure business continuity. The platform's robust backup and restore functionalities offer peace of mind, knowing that data is secure and recoverable.
Advanced Data Management Capabilities: The platform offers a wide range of robust data management features, including deduplication, compression, thin provisioning, and data tiering. These capabilities help optimize storage efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance overall performance.
High Availability and Data Protection: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP prioritizes data availability and protection. Its built-in data replication and snapshot capabilities provide reliable disaster recovery options and ensure business continuity. The platform's robust backup and restore functionalities offer peace of mind, knowing that data is secure and recoverable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity of Initial Setup: Setting up NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP may require a certain level of technical expertise. Configuring the platform and integrating it with existing infrastructure can be complex, especially for users who are less familiar with storage systems or cloud technologies. It may require dedicated time and resources for initial deployment.
Learning Curve for New Users: For individuals who are new to NetApp or cloud-based storage solutions, there may be a learning curve associated with understanding the platform's features and functionality. While the user interface is generally intuitive, it may take some time for users to become proficient in utilizing all the advanced capabilities and maximizing their benefits.
Learning Curve for New Users: For individuals who are new to NetApp or cloud-based storage solutions, there may be a learning curve associated with understanding the platform's features and functionality. While the user interface is generally intuitive, it may take some time for users to become proficient in utilizing all the advanced capabilities and maximizing their benefits.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Data Management: Many organizations operate in hybrid or multi-cloud environments, where data is spread across on-premises infrastructure and various cloud platforms. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP simplifies data management in such complex setups by providing a unified storage solution. It enables seamless movement of data between on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring data accessibility, consistency, and control. This unified approach saves time, reduces complexity, and improves overall operational efficiency.
Data Storage Efficiency: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP incorporates advanced data management features like deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning. These capabilities optimize storage efficiency by reducing data duplication, minimizing storage footprint, and maximizing available capacity. This leads to significant cost savings by reducing storage requirements, both on-premises and in the cloud, while ensuring optimal utilization of resources.
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery: Data protection is a critical concern for organizations, and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers robust data protection mechanisms. It includes built-in data replication and snapshot functionalities, allowing for reliable disaster recovery options. By creating snapshots and replicating data to separate locations or cloud regions, businesses can safeguard their critical data and achieve high availability, mitigating the risk of data loss and ensuring business continuity.
Scalability and Performance Optimization: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers exceptional scalability, allowing organizations to seamlessly scale their storage resources up or down based on changing requirements. Its intelligent storage tiering and caching mechanisms optimize performance by automatically moving frequently accessed data to faster storage tiers, ensuring efficient data access and reducing latency. This scalability and performance optimization capability enable businesses to handle increasing workloads and deliver consistent performance to their applications and users.
Simplified Data Management and Administration: With NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, organizations can benefit from simplified data management and administration. The platform provides an intuitive user interface and comprehensive management tools that streamline storage provisioning, monitoring, and resource allocation. IT administrators can easily configure and manage storage resources, gaining valuable insights into storage utilization and performance. This simplification of management tasks frees up time for IT teams to focus on more strategic initiatives.
Data Storage Efficiency: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP incorporates advanced data management features like deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning. These capabilities optimize storage efficiency by reducing data duplication, minimizing storage footprint, and maximizing available capacity. This leads to significant cost savings by reducing storage requirements, both on-premises and in the cloud, while ensuring optimal utilization of resources.
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery: Data protection is a critical concern for organizations, and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers robust data protection mechanisms. It includes built-in data replication and snapshot functionalities, allowing for reliable disaster recovery options. By creating snapshots and replicating data to separate locations or cloud regions, businesses can safeguard their critical data and achieve high availability, mitigating the risk of data loss and ensuring business continuity.
Scalability and Performance Optimization: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers exceptional scalability, allowing organizations to seamlessly scale their storage resources up or down based on changing requirements. Its intelligent storage tiering and caching mechanisms optimize performance by automatically moving frequently accessed data to faster storage tiers, ensuring efficient data access and reducing latency. This scalability and performance optimization capability enable businesses to handle increasing workloads and deliver consistent performance to their applications and users.
Simplified Data Management and Administration: With NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, organizations can benefit from simplified data management and administration. The platform provides an intuitive user interface and comprehensive management tools that streamline storage provisioning, monitoring, and resource allocation. IT administrators can easily configure and manage storage resources, gaining valuable insights into storage utilization and performance. This simplification of management tasks frees up time for IT teams to focus on more strategic initiatives.
Manjurul Review on NetApp
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use cloud storage, data backup, VM storage solutions
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer service sometimes is very painful and complex issue takes forever to solve
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nearly infinity of storage solutions, data protection,
NetApp Storage
What do you like best about the product?
NetApp has been working on various storage technologies. I as a NetApp Administrator admire NetApp storage. As is it highly efficient and stable.
What do you dislike about the product?
CIFS timeouts raised some concerns with upgrading to Cluster mode.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problems are based on CIFS, NFS
Next Generation Storage
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.
Move data to the cloud and still remain a storage engineer.
Cloud Volumes ONTAP has the rich data services NetApp customers need
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.
Great product
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
Legacy app to cloud
What do you like best about the product?
A legacy application was dependent on enterprise class CIFS support. Cloud ONTAP enabled the application to be hosted at AWS w/o compromising CIFS support /w SnapMirror support for DR.
Per instance performance constraints were overcome by logically segregating shares across multiple instances. Enabled us to get the application in the Cloud with minimal changes from a bare metal data center to continue its evolution.
Per instance performance constraints were overcome by logically segregating shares across multiple instances. Enabled us to get the application in the Cloud with minimal changes from a bare metal data center to continue its evolution.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much as of now, would like to see how it does over time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compressions and snapshots
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