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NetApp HCI [EOL] pros and cons

Vendor: NetApp

4.0 out of 5

32 reviews
88% willing to recommend

NetApp HCI [EOL] Pros review quotes

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Massimiliano Bartolozzi

Chief Information Officer at Lucart S.p.A.

Jul 5, 2023

The ability to size the available space in a way that matches our company's needs is most valuable. For instance, you can decide if you want 80/20, 70/30, or 60/40 space. Redundancy depends on your needs without changing the appliance. You just add space and decide the percentage of space that you need free and the percentage of space that you need for backup. It is all automatic, and you don't have to do anything. You just add space, and the system automatically configures itself with the chosen option.

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Rajith Attupurath

Senior Network & System Administrator at UOWD

Jan 26, 2022

It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good.

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KP

Pre-sales Solution Architect at SHI international corp

Nov 5, 2019

It is a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute.

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SH

Storage Engineer at University of California, Irvine

Nov 5, 2019

The most valuable aspects are that it's an all-in-one solution and it's very self-contained.

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EH

Senior SAN / Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 13, 2019

When you are doing lifecycles for your equipment, you can just swap out pieces of equipment. We used to do one big iron to another big iron, and that's a major migration hassle. Whereas, with this environment, you can go with small nodes, one at a time, and do a refresh.

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reviewer1140927

IT Deputy at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Jan 17, 2022

NetApp HCI is a stable solution.

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reviewer1223604

Senior IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Apr 6, 2020

Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure.

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PR

Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 16, 2019

The solution is very scalable.

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PN

Storage Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 18, 2019

The most valuable feature, currently, is the density of the system as hardware. I'm able to leverage the density of the product and remove bigger hardware which requires more space, cooling, and power costs, obviously. There are cost savings, obviously.

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reviewer1223523

Senior Infrastructure Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Nov 22, 2019

It is easy to administrate the solution, and the company handles its technical support well.

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NetApp HCI [EOL] Cons review quotes

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Massimiliano Bartolozzi

Chief Information Officer at Lucart S.p.A.

Jul 5, 2023

Its stability is very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crash.

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Rajith Attupurath

Senior Network & System Administrator at UOWD

Jan 26, 2022

The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating the infrastructure.

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KP

Pre-sales Solution Architect at SHI international corp

Nov 5, 2019

It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler.

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SH

Storage Engineer at University of California, Irvine

Nov 5, 2019

I would like for them to fall a little closer to like the VMware release model. The new features and new solutions tend to come from the VMware side. I would like for NetApp to follow along closely with VMware's release schedule.

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EH

Senior SAN / Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 13, 2019

There have been some drive type of issues where we have to apply a new code level. Storage nodes kick certain drives until they act as though they have failed when really they haven't. You just have to reinsert them, then they go on about their happy way. It's sort of a bug.

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reviewer1140927

IT Deputy at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Jan 17, 2022

The price of the solution is okay but could improve.

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reviewer1223604

Senior IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Apr 6, 2020

The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment.

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PR

Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 16, 2019

The networking needs improvement.

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PN

Storage Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 18, 2019

My biggest pain point is the installation part. I would like to see the appliance itself remove the entire switch that goes behind it and figure out how to do all the cluster interconnects within the box itself.

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reviewer1223523

Senior Infrastructure Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Nov 22, 2019

The product needs better support for installing the operating system on the machine.

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