NetApp ASA is somewhat expensive, and I believe they should work on the pricing aspect. I understand that pricing can be negotiated by reaching out to the pricing department.
The areas of NetApp ASA that could be improved include features such as the active sync feature that allows a customer to write on either data center A or data center B. I believe that the resilience to network delays or network problems could be improved since I encountered some network delays which resulted in delays in providing service.
From a partner perspective, the presales tools could use improvement. I'm handling pre-sales and post-sales. From a partner's point of view, the tools that I'm using to create the quote or do the sizing are very slow. The tools, such as hardware universe, fusion.netapp.com, and partnerhub.netapp.com, operate very slowly. These tools should be more efficient as they enter a hung state repeatedly. From a customer's perspective, it's expensive. Its price should be reduced.
Senior Client Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Sep 27, 2024
I would like to see more in terms of replication between storage classes. They provide different lines of storage. They have a lower class. They have a capacity class. They have their enterprise class. Currently, we have interoperability at the same plane with ONTAP, but we would like to see some more mix-and-match features. That would allow us to right-size our cost structure outside of the data center and maybe in places like a remote office or another colocation facility. Better interoperability between classes of storage or models of storage at NetApp would be beneficial to us because we can then continue to use NetApp across the board. We would also have some feature parity because we are bought into the ecosystem.
NetApp ASA is recognized for its SAN-centric architecture and robust SAN storage, providing consistent low latency and reliable solutions for mission-critical applications, virtualization, and block storage.Focused on enhancing data availability and management, NetApp ASA utilizes ONTAP 9 and NVMe disks for efficient storage solutions. Its functionality extends to supporting mission-critical applications, VMware infrastructures, Microsoft Hyper-V, disaster recovery, and business continuity....
NetApp ASA is somewhat expensive, and I believe they should work on the pricing aspect. I understand that pricing can be negotiated by reaching out to the pricing department.
The areas of NetApp ASA that could be improved include features such as the active sync feature that allows a customer to write on either data center A or data center B. I believe that the resilience to network delays or network problems could be improved since I encountered some network delays which resulted in delays in providing service.
From a partner perspective, the presales tools could use improvement. I'm handling pre-sales and post-sales. From a partner's point of view, the tools that I'm using to create the quote or do the sizing are very slow. The tools, such as hardware universe, fusion.netapp.com, and partnerhub.netapp.com, operate very slowly. These tools should be more efficient as they enter a hung state repeatedly. From a customer's perspective, it's expensive. Its price should be reduced.
I would like to see more in terms of replication between storage classes. They provide different lines of storage. They have a lower class. They have a capacity class. They have their enterprise class. Currently, we have interoperability at the same plane with ONTAP, but we would like to see some more mix-and-match features. That would allow us to right-size our cost structure outside of the data center and maybe in places like a remote office or another colocation facility. Better interoperability between classes of storage or models of storage at NetApp would be beneficial to us because we can then continue to use NetApp across the board. We would also have some feature parity because we are bought into the ecosystem.