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What is NetApp AFF A-Series?
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.
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Very Easy and Secure Company Data Storage and the Best on Data Analytics Production.
The Best and Secure Data Storage Environment Platform with Flexible Features.
Insane Performance Required
Netapp AFF in a HealthCare environment
If you're looking for an array that supports all protocols, look no further!
Popular Features
- Flash Array Performance (7)9.999%
- Flash Array Integration (6)9.999%
- Data Compression (6)9.999%
- Simplicity (7)8.282%
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Features
Enterprise Flash Array Storage
All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.
- 9.9Flash Array Performance(7) Ratings
Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives
- 9.9Flash Array Integration(6) Ratings
Integration with hypervisors and applications
- 9.9Data Compression(6) Ratings
Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements
- 9.9Non-Intrusive Upgrades(6) Ratings
Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required
- 8.2Simplicity(7) Ratings
Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training
- 8.2Power Savings(6) Ratings
Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives
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What is NetApp AFF A-Series?
- Simplify operations with data management on the premises and in the cloud.
- Speed up existing and emerging applications.
- Keep business-critical data available, protected, and secure.
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Users have found that the NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays offer a great experience in data management and provide a reliable and secure data storage platform. The software has effective capabilities for storage capacity planning and configuration management, making it convenient for users to access project data and perform data analytics. With easy report creation, users appreciate the capabilities provided by the software.
Customers have experienced drastic performance increases after switching to NetApp AFF, achieving write and read times in milliseconds compared to minutes. The visualization of different data offered by the arrays is incredible, providing accurate and productive results in real-time. The NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays support various protocols like NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, and FC, making them suitable for a broad range of applications including cache databases, Oracle databases, SQL Server, AIX Boot from SAN, VMWare guests, and NFS storage. Additionally, the software is used for redundancy and recoverability with production systems snap-mirrored between two systems. It is also flexible, supporting NFS, iSCSI, and CIFS protocols for small mid-range projects and database servers. Overall, NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays offer a reliable and secure data storage solution with impressive performance capabilities for a variety of use cases.
Reviews
(1-8 of 8)- Amazing degrees of storage efficiency, constantly improving with each version
- Exceptional performance that also keeps improving with each release
- Ease of management with System Manager and other tools
- Several new security features like multi-admin verify need improvements to be truly useful
- The System Manager GUI needs to be enhanced to include more functionality
- The upgrade process could be streamlined and simplified
Easy to set the security and provide the access to others data projects. Easy User interface to set all feature to perform effectively and generate great quality service.
- Solution for data storage and data migration
- Provide the useful and quality data reports
- data integration are very effective
- User training take lots of time to complete
- User must be experienced to operate this storage
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Array is most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data, capacity plaining tools and others configuration options are best and easy to use.
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Array Review
- NetApp support the NFS, CIFS ISCSI and FC Protocol
- AIX and Linux servers are booted with SAN Disk
- Oracle and My SQL data base
- High Performance
- GUI Interface needs to improve
- User must have experience to use this system
Very Easy and Secure Company Data Storage and the Best on Data Analytics Production.
- Secure data storage for the business
- Easy to access various data across other tools
- Data integration is very effective
- The user training takes a lot of time to complete
- Some tool capability settings are not easy
- To manage multiple different information
- Protective multiple project and business data is excellent.
- Solutions for data storage and data migration.
- Providing useful and quality data reports is effective.
- Full training process is necessary.
- Advanced functions manipulation and setting.
- Large amount of data transporting process is not that easy.
Insane Performance Required
- Backend database processing.
- Fast data processing for reporting.
- Almost instantaneous snapshots using NetApp SnapManager.
- Cost is still prohibitive for performance.
- Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect level.
- Automation and scripting improvements in the PowerShell module.
Netapp AFF in a HealthCare environment
- It is fast. We have multiple large and vastly different types of workloads and our response time is always sub-milisecond
- NetApp has done a phenomenal job with developing Ontap. It continues to improve in large leaps on a short development cycle
- The snapshot technology at the heart of Ontap is incredibly powerful and versatile. It is at the heart of most of their most useful technologies.
- Non-disruptive moves of volumes between nodes, aggregates and even different media types makes management vert simple
- Volume level data encryption. We have this enabled for all volumes and have seen zero performance impact.
- The GUI of Ontap is in constant flux. Every time there is an upgrade it appears to be completely redesigned. Some stability in its design would be nice
- As new or improved technologies addressing compression, compaction and deduplication occur within upgrades it would be nice if preexisting data could benefit from it by background processes looking for opportunities to apply savings to data in place.
- It is not simple to see when data from the AFF is being access inefficiently through the cluster interconnect. Because data moves sometimes access to the data remains with the nodes that originally owned them. I would like to be able to easily identify these instances so that I can take corrective action.
- Supports CIFS, NFS, ISCSI and FC protocols. Not all flash products out in the market today support all protocols and this makes it harder for small - mid scale organizations who cannot afford multiple million dollar storage platforms.
- Handles workloads really well. We have VDI, SQL DB, Production workloads running on it all at the same time and the array doesn't choke on latency or IOPS.
- CDOT has come a long way and with the newer versions of CDOT, the data reduction and compression makes way for a lot more usable storage than what you pay for in RAW.
- As always, Netapp upgrades are really painful. I wish there was an easy way of upgrading Netapp.
- GUI is hard to use and CLI is even worse. GUI is confusing and you click all over the place before you get over the learning curve. CLI has changed from the 7-mode days and is very confusing to use. I have had scenarios where the support themselves use documentation to put in the proper commands.
- Like any array, Netapp's CDOT has it's own bugs in the software. We learnt the hard way when one of our nodes went down and a bug prevented take over of SCSI services which resulted in an APD situation on all our ESXI hosts. Was a nightmare rebooting all the VM's and ESXI's to relieve them of the APD's. People don't pay millions towards a storage platform to go through nightmares.