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NetApp SnapCenter pros and cons

Vendor: NetApp

4.0 out of 5

28 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

NetApp SnapCenter offers centralized management for storage and backup, integrating smoothly with VMware for efficient data protection and fast recovery. It provides cloning capabilities for development environments and features RBAC for enhanced security. While technical support is responsive, users need engineering-level assistance for complex setups. There is room for improvement in Oracle and Hyper-V replication compatibility, and users desire granular reporting, better non-NetApp storage support, and improved integration with solutions like Veeam.

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PROS

NetApp SnapCenter manages both storage and backup, integrating automation and improving processes.

The centralized system of SnapCenter allows management of all systems and agents remotely.

SnapCenter offers fast backup and recovery, handling large data volumes efficiently.

NetApp SnapCenter's cloning capabilities accelerate development and enable efficient resource management.

SnapCenter integrates smoothly with VMware, enhancing backup and restore operations.

CONS

NetApp SnapCenter lacks features for managing solutions more effectively.

Support issues exist, requiring engagement at the engineering level for technical problems.

Reporting capabilities need expansion for more granular and extensive reporting.

Replication features require improvements for better efficiency and integration between systems.

Installation is complex, and better training documents should be available publicly.

NetApp SnapCenter Pros review quotes

Storage Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 31, 2018

It's all together managing both storage and backup, which makes it easier for troubleshooting issues and the automation part of it

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Storage Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 31, 2018

It has greatly improved our DR activity.

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IT Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Nov 25, 2018

It allows us to easily take a Snapshot and use it with any backup tools. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. If we want to restore an SAP or an Oracle machine, a normal Snapshot won't do it, but we can do so with SnapCenter.

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Christian Gruetzner

Service Architecture at All for One Group AG

Nov 25, 2018

The most valuable feature is that it's centralized. In the old SnapManager days, we had software for each server. Now, with a centralized system, we're able to manage all systems remotely, and all agents remotely, and update them remotely. That's a huge benefit for us.

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Nikolay Gorbunov

Lead Engineer at a integrator with 201-500 employees

Nov 26, 2018

It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery.

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Sr. Unix Systems and Storage Administrator at a retailer with 51-200 employees

Dec 10, 2018

It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development.

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Storage Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Dec 13, 2018

The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter.

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Storage Administrator at a government with 10,001+ employees

Dec 19, 2018

The way that it interconnects with VMware is really handy, because you can go right into your vSphere client, where you spend a lot of the day anyway, right-click on one of the VMs where you have backups running for however long, and you can restore either some files or restore the entire thing.

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Support Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Dec 19, 2018

What is very handy for our clients is the consolidated view. They have a dashboard with everything, through a single pane of glass. This is what they really need because, within seconds, they can have a good overview and see if there are any errors or any issues.

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Storage Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 19, 2018

I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems.

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NetApp SnapCenter Cons review quotes

Storage Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 31, 2018

I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better.

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Storage Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 31, 2018

We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical.

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IT Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Nov 25, 2018

The replication feature needs improvement in future releases.

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Christian Gruetzner

Service Architecture at All for One Group AG

Nov 25, 2018

We have hundreds of servers and systems and hundreds of customers and they're separated in a multi-tenancy way in NetApp SVM. Right now, the problem is that it always scan all SVMs. If I backup Customer A, it scans all SVMs, or tries to scan all SVMs, if there is a backup relationship on the storage. But it doesn't have the permissions, so we run into timeouts or the backup just takes too long. They're fixing that in the upcoming release...

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Nikolay Gorbunov

Lead Engineer at a integrator with 201-500 employees

Nov 26, 2018

Groups might be helpful for each site or data center so that we know a given data center has these resources while another data center has those resources. It's not always easy to group hosts by type.

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Sr. Unix Systems and Storage Administrator at a retailer with 51-200 employees

Dec 10, 2018

The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version).

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Storage Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Dec 13, 2018

Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster.

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Storage Administrator at a government with 10,001+ employees

Dec 19, 2018

There is one area that needs improvement and that's in the alerting. When you set up your SMTP alerts, it only has - and I don't understand why - the ability to send an anonymous SMTP. It doesn't do basic authentication, which frustrated me for a while until I figured out that I'm not missing something. It's just not there.

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Support Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Dec 19, 2018

What I did witness lately are issues with some Microsoft KBs, the updates. But it happened only once, and not on a major platform, it was on a small one.

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Storage Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 19, 2018

I would like to see replication support between systems. Right now, it's kind of limited. We manage them separately from the storage system interface, not from SnapCenter. It would be nice if it was integrated into SnapCenter.

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