Qumulo Reviews

Qumulo is a distributor system that represents names based on similar tools. We had a few petabytes of data, and certain application teams were working with it during the rollout to understand what we wanted to use it for. It is basically set up for some of the database and application teams.

Qumulo has improved the way my organization functions in several ways. One of the biggest improvements was authentication, which is a security feature for SMB and FTP. We set up the clusters for Qumulo, and the main spaces are accessed seamlessly for Windows and Linux, which we were using it for. That layer of authentication was great. Depending on who you are working with, we were using either standard LDAP or another directory. I work with a number of different compute end users in connecting the data files. For example, with it being a NAS, we were able to move beyond traditional NAS limitations. Different groups could access these files and authenticate through Active Directory, Windows, Mac, or Linux, and the security feature really helped a lot as far as authentication.

The most valuable feature in Qumulo is the scaling feature, as Qumulo file data platform is optimized for scale, so we could support petabytes of data, billions of files, millions of operations, and thousands of users.

The creators of Qumulo were the ones who created Isilon, and I had a conversation with them, so any of the features within Isilon may need tweaking, but I think they resolved it here. In the year that I worked with it, I did not see anything that I had an issue with. The security is great, and it works with cloud technologies, being a hands-based tool, so you can use it with AWS or Microsoft Azure. It programs very easily. There are REST APIs, and there is a cloud connection. The management and program layer is made up of three capabilities: API, the command line, and a visual interface. In the year that I worked with it and brought it in, I think it has been effective.

The only thing I would like to see added to Qumulo is for the interface to improve visually, more in line with vCenter, but that is just my thought. Overall, I appreciate it.

I have been using Qumulo for about a year. Qumulo is an application that is now owned by HP, and I was working with HP for a contract for a year, so I was involved with the implementation of it and also managing it.

I would rate the stability of Qumulo as a nine. It did not have any issues off the top.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate the scalability of Qumulo as a nine. I really would. I remember the version we used was 2.1 for Windows. I would give it a nine. I was really impressed with it as soon as I saw it, and it immediately made me think of Isilon. It is really scalable and easy to use for our end users. You can lock down files for a particular individual to use.

I would rate their technical support as a ten, as they are very quick to respond. They respond via email or phone calls, working with the individuals who are implementing it and how it would work with our regular users who will call. They respond rather quickly. For me, it is a ten, and I do not believe any of the application team owners had too many problems.

The initial deployment of Qumulo is actually pretty straightforward. We worked with the Qumulo team, and this was an individual company that HP purchased, so they brought it in, set everything up, and walked us through it. They explained that it takes some effort, and of course, we had to set up the security on our end for them to be able to access the setup things on the servers. After that, they walked us through what they were doing and how to use it, so it is pretty straightforward.

I have seen a return on investment with Qumulo. With a particular database and application team users, they were happy with it, the access they had, and how they can lock down files. There is a main manager of Qumulo within the groups, and you can set it up. Qumulo is a revenue competitor with Isilon, NetApp, Ampere Stewart, and PowerScale, so this is HP's purchase to compete with those particular companies. They are pretty happy with it rolling out in-house, and they intend to expand it to other groups. I appreciate what I am seeing; it is a great tool.

I have plans to increase the usage of Qumulo in the future. We have brought it in to work with specific teams or test groups and test users, seeing how they enjoy it and how they feel about it. We have not had any complaints when we rolled it out. In certain instances, with AWS users, we have had to bring in a few kinks, maybe connectivity issues, that were resolved. It is a new rollout, but we intend to expand it in-house.

I was not involved on the pricing side of Qumulo, but with HP bringing it in, my thought is they see a great deal of potential for it as it is competing with Dell EMC and NetApp in this area. So they felt that purchasing this company would make them quite competitive.

My advice for someone who would use Qumulo is to probably go to their site, do some research, and communicate with some of the individuals or online salespeople to give you an idea. There are probably some guides you can obtain. I think a lot of admins would appreciate this tool, as it has the API and tools to work with the cloud, and the support team is pretty solid. You can create SMB shares and NFS shares, and it works with AD and LDAP identity services. I would say to reach out to human level support, go to their website, and do a little research on it. I think they would appreciate it.

Overall, I would rate Qumulo a nine. I appreciate that it does snapshots, and you could use replication. It works with Qumulo shift and works with Amazon S3. The object store replication enables any of Qumulo file data platforms to treat a cloud object storage service as Amazon S3 as a suitable replication target, so users can copy from Qumulo namespace to a cloud store. That is great for storage, and it has quotas to enable users to control the growth of any of the subsets. I think it is something that anyone in AWS and the cloud technologies would appreciate. The file system is expandable, grows quickly, and has failure recovery. So it is a great application. I would advise anyone who is interested in it to contact the support team, and they can set up a meeting, such as a Zoom session, and walk them through it by sharing screens to give them an idea of it. HP purchased Qumulo to compete with EMC's Isilon and NetApp. So it is a solid tool. I work with both of those solutions, and what I am seeing immediately reminded me of Isilon as soon as I saw it, so I knew what was going on there. My overall rating for Qumulo is nine out of ten.

We use Qumulo for end-user storage and some application storage as well.

Qumulo has helped our organization concerning computer storage and speed. The performance and reliability have gone up as well. There is not nearly as much outage because we can easily set every update onto the second cluster. We experience just a split second of downtime, and our end users don't experience downtime, which is a lot better than what we used to have.

The most valuable features of Qumulo are its rolling updates and all-day availability. No failover is available in Qumulo by default, but we discussed it with our Qumulo contact and enabled a failover. If we have a disaster with our file server, nothing is recoverable. However, with Kumolo, we have a failover and a second cluster standing dormant.

Initially, the failover was supposed to be implemented in Qumulo itself. This failed to happen mid-case, so we had to devise a middleman solution. It was not the cleanest of solutions, but we did get something that worked. Some anti-theft permissions do not transfer well to Qumulo.

I have been using Qumulo for a year and a half.

Qumulo is a stable solution.

We have a development cluster running, and we tested adding a third cluster or a few external nodes just in case. It turned out to be quite easy. The new nodes automatically present themselves to the existing cluster. It was just a matter of picking them up and helping them in.

At the moment, about 150 users are using Qumulo. Once we are fully finished, we'll be up in the 1,000 to 2,000 range. We have quite a large user base.

So far, Qumulo's technical support has been very responsive and extremely helpful.

Before Qumulo, we were using Windows Server. We switched to Qumulo because Windows Server got a little bit old and provided no high availability for a company of our size.

We took a month to deploy Qumulo. We chose a vendor, and then it's a matter of flashing the Qumulo flow commands. After they deliver the Qumulo quite node version, it's just syncing up all the nodes into a cluster, and the rest is handled quite easily and automatically.

We had to wait about eight to nine months for the hardware to be delivered. Before we could even start thinking about deployment, everything from networks, which are the nodes themselves, took quite a while, and this wasn't Qumulo's fault. This was more of a supply issue.

Qumulo requires some maintenance, mainly the updates and upkeep of scripts.

We are working with the latest version of Qumulo. Planning is key. We took multiple months to plan everything, which was barely enough.

Overall, I rate Qumulo an eight out of ten.

We are using Qumulo to store live organization materials. For example, from Disney, Warner Bros, etcetera. Additionally, for online storage. I checked the quality of the media and would send it to the vendor.

Since using Qumulo our work at our company has been quicker and more effective.

The most valuable features of Qumulo are the ease of management and special permissions that are quick to enable. The overall performance of the solution is good.

The support for iMac and protocols should be improved, not all features are available.

I have been using Qumulo for approximately two and a half years.

Qumulo is stable.

The solution is scalable. You only have to add new nodes and clusters for space.

We have 15,000 using the solution.

We have petabytes of data in our environment.

The support is easy to get a hold of them. They have 24-hour-a-day support.

I was using Dell EMC Isilon, but it was outdated, so we switched to Qumulo.

The initial setup of Qumulo was easy with the expert we had hired.

We have to install the clusters and switches for the full installation of Qumulo.

The full process can take two to three hours.

We used an expert engineer to help us with the implementation of the solution.

We have received a return on investment using Qumulo.

We evaluated cloud storage and other services. However, our main partner suggested we use Qumulo.

The solution requires general monthly maintenance.

I would suggest to others to consider this solution if they need quick assess memory. It might be too quick for regular users.

I rate Qumulo a nine out of ten.

Our primary purpose for utilizing Qumulo was to provide a file-sharing platform for our marketing department, which also served as an archive for their videos, pictures, and other assets related to past events and marketing campaigns. They had accumulated a significant amount of older data, which they accessed through this platform, while also utilizing it as their current working file-sharing system.

Qumulo served as a file-sharing tool that stored our data across two clusters, one located at our production site and the other at our DR site. We implemented replication to ensure the protection of our data. All of our users, including those in the marketing department who primarily used Macs, were able to access the shared files. In essence, Qumulo functioned solely as a means of file storage.

The most valuable feature of Qumulo is the ability to share files and reliability.

One aspect of Qumulo that I hoped to see improved was its software upgrade process, which did see significant progress during my usage. Initially, upgrading the software resulted in several minutes of system downtime. However, by the time I departed last summer, the downtime had reduced to mere ten seconds. Although I am unsure if Qumulo has yet achieved a completely outage-free upgrade, I simply performed the upgrades early in the morning before the marketing department began its workday, so any downtime was inconsequential.

I have been using Qumulo for approximately three years.

I rate the stability of Qumulo a nine out of ten.

It has been easy to grow and add new clusters.

I rate the scalability of Qumulo an eight out of ten.

The support I received was excellent.

I rate the support of Qumulo an eight out of ten.

Positive

The initial deployment was straightforward.

The price of Qumulo is reasonable. 

When we evaluated other options the reasonable price of Qumulo was one of the factors of why we choose it.

My advice to others would be for them to try the solution out.

I rate Qumulo an eight out of ten.

We used it as a sort of centralized media storage on-prem. We only use the hardware on-premises at the moment.

Mainly cost savings on the network level, as we no longer have to scan different file systems since it's all on one Qumulo cluster now.

The valuable features include ease of use, the ability to update without downtime and speed, particularly IO speed in the storage and file systems.

In the next release, I would like to see maybe the ability to have more control at a terminal level of the file system using more standard UNIX commands.

I have been using Qumulo for the last seven months. 

It is a very stable product. I never faced any issues. It's been very reliable.

It is a highly scalable solution. There are around 200 users in my company. Moreover, it is very easy to maintain. 

The customer service and support team is very good. It is really easy to reach out to them.

Positive

We used Dell EMC solutions and also IBM Quantum. We haven't switched to Qumulo; we just added it in parallel. We like Qumulo's support and maintenance, and everything works smoothly.

The initial setup was really good. It took about a day to deploy the solution. It is deployed in one location in one environment. 

I deployed it myself. I deployed the hardware on-site with remote assistance for the configuration, and it went very well. There were a couple of people to help rack up equipment and lift stuff, but apart from that, I did it myself.

We have seen a return on investment from working with Qumulo. We have saved a lot of time and resources on staff coverage issues, which has resulted in cost savings for us.

The pricing is very good, and the licensing model is easy to understand. It's just the standard licensing.

It's a good option to go with because it's easy to use and it saves time.

Overall, I would rate the product an eight out of ten. 

We use Qumulo to backup archives and for surveillance.

The data protection algorithm to protect the data between the nodes has been the most valuable feature. The integration with backup platforms such as Veeam and Veritas has also been valuable.

The solution could improve availability and improve data protection or data services such as compression of deduplication. In a future release, we'd like to have more cloud API integrations.

We have used this solution for three years.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten. 

We use Qumulo to promote object-based storage for our users.

The ratio of total operational cost to complexity versus feature set is very good.

Qumulo should continue to expand automation and orchestration capabilities.

I have been using Qumulo for 18 months.

The stability of the solution is good. It has been functioning well.

It takes us approximately a week to deploy Qumulo in the data centers.

The price of the solution is in the middle range compared to others. We look at the price per terabyte.

I would advise others to make sure they do a proof of concept or a trial. If they are using Qumulo for object-based storage, ensure that they fully test and validate both the use case as well as their operational requirements before.

I rate Qumulo a seven out of ten.

We are a reseller and Qumulo is one of the storage solutions that we are dealing with. It is used for software-defined file storage.

I am currently researching more use cases so that we can better sell it in the market.

The most valuable feature is real-time analytics. The data that you receive from the storage, such as the IOPS, is an essential feature. This is the main competitive advantage against the other products on the market.

Qumulo can be integrated with AWS or Google Cloud.

This product is not available in the Azure marketplace, which is not a good thing.

The price of the software is a bit expensive, so a reduction in cost would make it more competitive.

We have been reselling Qumulo for approximately one year.

Qumulo is a stable product. We only have a couple of customers using it, but we plan on continuing to sell it in the future.

This solution is very scalable.

I have not had any experience with technical support.

I have not installed it myself, 100%, but I recently went through the training to install the latest version. It seems to me that it should be quite easy. This is the feedback that we have been getting.

I expect that it takes a couple of hours or less to deploy.

Overall, this is a good product and I recommend it. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We are a solution provider and Qumulo is one of the storage products that we implement for our customers. Our customers have many use cases including storing office data, audio-video, graphics, and more. Our customer base is primarily in the media and entertainment business

The feature that I like most is the analytics part of the file system. It offers good insight into the process including what and where things are happening, including which users and what files are involved.

They have implemented the most important features and they're steadily enhancing it. The update schedule and roadmap are such that every two weeks, there are new features being released.

There is plenty of room for improvement.

In the future, I would like to see non-disruptive updates.

Switching our or replacing nodes should be easier to do.

We have been working with Qumulo for about two years.

Our customers for this product are small to mid-sized companies.

We have been in touch with technical support and I think that they're very good. They are very responsive and very knowledgeable.

We work with a variety of different products and vendors for storage solutions. We're selling Dell EMC storage, Unity, Isilon, Qumulo, Pure Storage, and more recently, Cloudian.

Compared to Isilon, they have only a subset of the features.

The initial setup is easy. The setup of the cluster itself, without the hardware installation, can be done within an hour. As long as somebody has the proper networking skills then it will be easy for them to set it up.

We have our own team of five people who handle the maintenance for our customers.

The mastery of the market in this space comes down to scale and from my perspective, Qumulo and Isilon are the only two products in the market. My preference is Qumulo and I recommend it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.