Our use case for NetApp FAS Series involves a coastal IT company where we used it as common storage for the SQL cluster between HP servers for document management. We initially used 10k RPM SAS drives as primary for common server storage. In 2016, we needed a huge amount of data, and at that time, the hard drives were only 2 TB and 4 TB. Today, we have reached 16 TB, but that 2 TB was in a volume concept of RAID 10 because the data is highly needed. We have two NetApp FAS Series systems syncing as data deduplication between the storages. The main capabilities we utilize with the product are data management, data protection, and taking snapshots. We use deduplication between the storages and utilize SAN for the servers and NAS for the CTM.
Technological Consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Consultant
Top 20
Mar 19, 2025
We sold a very big solution this month. We sold two AFF 1K, A1K, and R2 with high availability with ONTAP on-premises to a large financial company. We are now working on an upgrade for another company. We are working on an upgrade to NetApp FAS Series 9150. They have a fiber channel MetroCluster, so they cannot move to an IP MetroCluster.
Pre-Sales Director France, Belgium and Luxembourg at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Feb 11, 2025
There are many different use cases, but the main use case for NetApp, as I know it, is NAS. It is among the top contenders when it comes to providing a robust solution for establishing a connection between applications and storage. NetApp is probably first or second in this field.
Lead Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Sep 24, 2024
We are a big unstructured file data storage company. We use NetApp solutions like AFF for our unstructured data. NetApp is primarily for provisioning storage and maintaining unstructured data.
Storage Administrator at Softcell Technologies Limited
Real User
Jan 3, 2024
I've been involved in daily operations like ratio to volume and aggregate monitoring. I've also worked on the ONTAP 9 manager, as well as an ONTAP upgrade of the operating system. I've also done a small implementation along with my colleague. The use cases depend on the customer's specific needs. Factors like workload, legal requirements, and desired protocols would determine if FAS is a good fit. For example, if the customer has a large database workload, we might suggest AFF instead. But for most other cases, we can recommend FAS because it's more economical compared to AWS.
We use the solution as a home directory for our HPC cluster. The users store important and reliable data on it. We are not using it for IO-intensive operations but as a reliable storage.
My customers use the solution for production servers, databases, and Oracle applications. I did not deploy Oracle. I deal with only the storage and server side of the product.
Primarily, we use them as backup targets. Additionally, we utilize them as archives or for slower-performing tasks, serving as masters for our customers.
My use case for the NetApp FAS Series is that it's a repository for the VM (virtual machine) and CIFS (common internet file system) share, or network share.
We are using NetApp FAS Series on all of your sites. We use it in four major systems for productions in broadcast TV channels. I can say that we use it in Production and Archive environments according to the model and disk structure.
I use NetApp FAS Series for storage consolidation, database management, performance, and data protection. We also use it for unified environments where you run multiple protocols. You can run it through a FAS or an AFF system. Our core applications are running on it, so it's always up.
System Administrator at Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc.
Real User
Top 20
Jul 27, 2020
We primarily use the solution for keeping our information reliable. In our case specifically, here at the operations location, we've got a MetroCluster for redundancy.
Principal Architect Infrastructure Solutions at a recruiting/HR firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Jul 23, 2020
We are a solution provider and NetApp FAS is one of the infrastructure-related products that we implement for our clients. Our customers' use cases vary, where some of them use it as a backup target and others use it for the general workload. The primary use case is probably for general workload.
Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jul 8, 2018
The product has been pretty stable. Though we have had a few issues, not on the ones that we are going to replace, but on a couple of other ones. On the ones that we are going to replace, we usually use them for file storage and Exchange. The others are mainly used for interface and iSCSI.
Storage and System Engineer at Thales Services SAS
Real User
Jun 23, 2018
We recently upgraded our NetApp environment from 7-Mode to Clustered ONTAP v9.3. Primary use cases are NFS and CIFS. NFSs are used for VMware data store while the CIFSs are for corporate file sharing.
NetApp FAS series is an enterprise-level storage system that provides a wide variety of data management services, including data protection, block and file storage, and data management.
NetApp FAS is designed to be highly scalable, allowing your organization to grow storage capacity on demand. NetApp FAS also supports multiple protocols, including NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel, as well as various storage architectures, including SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network-Attached...
Our use case for NetApp FAS Series involves a coastal IT company where we used it as common storage for the SQL cluster between HP servers for document management. We initially used 10k RPM SAS drives as primary for common server storage. In 2016, we needed a huge amount of data, and at that time, the hard drives were only 2 TB and 4 TB. Today, we have reached 16 TB, but that 2 TB was in a volume concept of RAID 10 because the data is highly needed. We have two NetApp FAS Series systems syncing as data deduplication between the storages. The main capabilities we utilize with the product are data management, data protection, and taking snapshots. We use deduplication between the storages and utilize SAN for the servers and NAS for the CTM.
I usually use NetApp FAS Series for the shares, CIFS share, replication, SnapMirror, retaining volumes, LUNs, and other things.
We sold a very big solution this month. We sold two AFF 1K, A1K, and R2 with high availability with ONTAP on-premises to a large financial company. We are now working on an upgrade for another company. We are working on an upgrade to NetApp FAS Series 9150. They have a fiber channel MetroCluster, so they cannot move to an IP MetroCluster.
There are many different use cases, but the main use case for NetApp, as I know it, is NAS. It is among the top contenders when it comes to providing a robust solution for establishing a connection between applications and storage. NetApp is probably first or second in this field.
NetApp has allowed us to get all of our storage onto one platform across various facilities, and it's eased the management of that storage.
We are a big unstructured file data storage company. We use NetApp solutions like AFF for our unstructured data. NetApp is primarily for provisioning storage and maintaining unstructured data.
We use the solution for multipurpose VMs.
We use it for VMware ESXi, CEFS for shared user storage, and we use it for backup of all of these.
The tool is used for multiple protocols like NFS and iSCSI.
I've been involved in daily operations like ratio to volume and aggregate monitoring. I've also worked on the ONTAP 9 manager, as well as an ONTAP upgrade of the operating system. I've also done a small implementation along with my colleague. The use cases depend on the customer's specific needs. Factors like workload, legal requirements, and desired protocols would determine if FAS is a good fit. For example, if the customer has a large database workload, we might suggest AFF instead. But for most other cases, we can recommend FAS because it's more economical compared to AWS.
Clients like the fact that FAS systems can boot from SAN and Boot volumes.
We use it for storing our database data and for our virtual machines.
We use the solution as a home directory for our HPC cluster. The users store important and reliable data on it. We are not using it for IO-intensive operations but as a reliable storage.
My customers use the solution for production servers, databases, and Oracle applications. I did not deploy Oracle. I deal with only the storage and server side of the product.
Primarily, we use them as backup targets. Additionally, we utilize them as archives or for slower-performing tasks, serving as masters for our customers.
NetApp FAS Series are used for sharing environments.
My use case for the NetApp FAS Series is that it's a repository for the VM (virtual machine) and CIFS (common internet file system) share, or network share.
I use NetApp FAS Series for servers. I have a lot of virtual servers connected through it using a Brocade switch.
I am using NetApp FAS Series for file backups.
I use NetApp FAS Series to store files and for VSI and VDI.
Our company is based in Myanmar. I'm formerly a system engineer and we are a NetApp service provider company as well.
The NetApp FAS series is unified storage and can be used for the NAS or SAN environments. We had a customer that needed multiple protocols.
We are using NetApp FAS Series on all of your sites. We use it in four major systems for productions in broadcast TV channels. I can say that we use it in Production and Archive environments according to the model and disk structure.
I use NetApp FAS Series for storage consolidation, database management, performance, and data protection. We also use it for unified environments where you run multiple protocols. You can run it through a FAS or an AFF system. Our core applications are running on it, so it's always up.
We are mainly using this solution for file sharing, virtualization, and database storage.
We use the solution for data storage. We are customers of NetApp and I'm the assistant director of our company.
We primarily use the solution for keeping our information reliable. In our case specifically, here at the operations location, we've got a MetroCluster for redundancy.
We are a solution provider and NetApp FAS is one of the infrastructure-related products that we implement for our clients. Our customers' use cases vary, where some of them use it as a backup target and others use it for the general workload. The primary use case is probably for general workload.
We used NetApp FAS for both block and file sharing but we have now switched to another product by HP.
We use this solution as general unified SAN storage for different workloads.
We have deployed a four-node cluster to host multiple services like NFS, CIFS, FCP, and iSCSI with SnapMirror enabled across the cluster.
Used SnapMirror for replication and DR. It's a good case for a storage-based DR. Good results on RPO and RTO.
We use it for storage and it has performed fine, but now we need to upgrade.
The primary use case is for regular databases and file systems. So far it has been good. The performance is solid, it's robust, availability is solid.
The product has been pretty stable. Though we have had a few issues, not on the ones that we are going to replace, but on a couple of other ones. On the ones that we are going to replace, we usually use them for file storage and Exchange. The others are mainly used for interface and iSCSI.
We recently upgraded our NetApp environment from 7-Mode to Clustered ONTAP v9.3. Primary use cases are NFS and CIFS. NFSs are used for VMware data store while the CIFSs are for corporate file sharing.
We use NetApp as our primary storage. Because we are a system integrator, we managed more than 100 data petabytes of data of our customers.