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NetApp AltaVault pros and cons

Vendor: NetApp
4.0 out of 5

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PROS

NetApp AltaVault enables seamless data movement from on-premise to cloud storage locations like Azure.
NetApp AltaVault provides flexibility, allowing virtualization and unrestricted testing of backups and disaster recovery capabilities.
NetApp AltaVault offers a deduplication engine that achieves over 10 times deduplication ratio for backup data.
NetApp AltaVault allows storage of large archived data on low-cost on-premise and complemented by even cheaper cloud storage.
NetApp AltaVault supports easy integration with various operating systems, facilitating seamless migration.

CONS

NetApp AltaVault needs more capacity in the basic model, which could prove beneficial.
Integration with Veeam or similar would be better optimized with tighter integration.
NetApp AltaVault only supports up to 500 volumes for SnapMirror, which is insufficient for users needing more, such as 750 volumes.
There's a need for different user base authentication to allow customers to only access their own backups.
It's becoming outdated and competes with NetApp's other primary architecture.
 

NetApp AltaVault Pros review quotes

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Consultant at Tata Consultancy
Jul 31, 2025
Considering the disaster recovery scenarios, I want to assess NetApp AltaVault's ability to minimize the recovery time objective (RTO) and what positive impact I have seen from the product so far.
Naveen Radhwani - PeerSpot reviewer
Head IT at TO THE NEW Digital
May 31, 2024
The dashboard is useful for managing data backups.
PM
EUT Analyst at Absa Group Ltd
Sep 27, 2023
The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is easy to use and integrate with whichever operating systems you use, providing you with a complete view, especially when you plan to migrate to some other operating system.
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Joseph Galvan - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-founder & Chief Architect at Prescriptive Data Solutions
Jan 17, 2023
Its initial setup is easy.
reviewer1302873 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-sales Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Jan 5, 2022
It's so easy to work with.
Joseph Galvan - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-founder & Chief Architect at Prescriptive Data Solutions
Dec 10, 2021
The most valuable feature is the portability of large archived data. You're able to put things on large on-prem, low-cost storage and then augment that with even lower cost storage in the cloud.
reviewer1302873 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-sales Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Mar 16, 2020
The solution can be used for all Office 365 applications.
HeadOfPu42f3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Purchasing at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Jul 2, 2019
The solution is very easy to use and it offers great support.
it_user750780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Core Infrastructure Engineer at Children'S Mercy Hospital
Oct 8, 2017
The deduplication engine. Right now, we're at about 10.5 to 11 times deduplication of our backup data.
it_user750642 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
The jobs we have baseline into the AltaVault, it seems to be able to recover faster than the previous solution.
 

NetApp AltaVault Cons review quotes

ST
Consultant at Tata Consultancy
Jul 31, 2025
The initial installation is difficult for my clients who have it on both on-premises and on cloud.
Naveen Radhwani - PeerSpot reviewer
Head IT at TO THE NEW Digital
May 31, 2024
The product must provide multi-gate connectivity.
PM
EUT Analyst at Absa Group Ltd
Sep 27, 2023
The initial setup phase of the tool was difficult.
Learn what your peers think about NetApp AltaVault. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.
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Joseph Galvan - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-founder & Chief Architect at Prescriptive Data Solutions
Jan 17, 2023
NetApp's own competing products complicate things.
reviewer1302873 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-sales Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Jan 5, 2022
The solution needs faster indexing.
Joseph Galvan - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-founder & Chief Architect at Prescriptive Data Solutions
Dec 10, 2021
It's a good product, but it's becoming outdated and moving to their other primary architecture.
reviewer1302873 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-sales Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Mar 16, 2020
It would be nice if the solution was more complete. Many customers are looking for a single solution or silo that they can manage everything from. It would be nice, instead of having different products, if everything a client needed was in one solution.
HeadOfPu42f3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Purchasing at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Jul 2, 2019
I would like to see more web support.
it_user750780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Core Infrastructure Engineer at Children'S Mercy Hospital
Oct 8, 2017
I really want to partner it with the SnapCenter. We haven't implemented that yet. We're upgrading all of our stuff to the ONTAP 9, which you had to have.
it_user750642 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2017
We've had a lot of issues, crashed the service console a lot, service crashes.