# Azure NetApp Files Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Cloud File Storage Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-file-storage) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About Azure NetApp Files Azure NetApp Files is a Microsoft Azure file storage service built on NetApp technology, giving you the file capabilities in Azure even your core business applications require. Get enterprise-grade data management and storage to Azure so you can manage your workloads and applications with ease, and move all of your file-based applications to the cloud. Azure NetApp Files solves availability and performance challenges for enterprises that want to move mission-critical applications to the cloud, including workloads like: - HPC: High-performance computing at higher speeds than on-premises environments - SAP: Certified for SAP as well as HIPAA - Linux: NFS and SMB file shares need zero code modifications to move to the cloud - WVD: Window Virtual Desktop delivers a highly available, seamless user experience across any device - Oracle and SQL Server workloads: Accessibility without latency ## Azure NetApp Files Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **easy configuration** of Azure NetApp Files, enhanced by excellent support during the setup process. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **excellent customer support** of Azure NetApp Files, especially during the easy configuration process. (1 reviews) - Users find Azure NetApp Files to have **easy configuration** , with supportive assistance enhancing their experience significantly. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users express concerns about **potential service removal** , which could complicate data migration to other Microsoft products. (1 reviews) - Users express concerns about the **risk of Microsoft removing the service** , potentially causing data migration issues. (1 reviews) ## Azure NetApp Files Reviews ### 1. Good service for a Storage as a Service product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** The easy way to configure, some cloud solutions that tries to replace a physical Storage device are difficult to configure, but Azure Netapp Files is not difficult and also their support helps a lot at the moment of the configuration. **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** Because it´s a SaaS it has the risk that in some time Microsoft remove the service from the cloud and you have to move all your data to another Microsoft Product. **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** The migration to cloud from an onpremise device, it helps you when you have to migrate an old device that doesn´t have support and you don´t have to care about purchase another extended support policy with the vendor or take care of the hardware failure. ### 2. NetApp Azure Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** TAUSHIF R. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** The Netapp Azures application we are using to track the details of pending items or the new items which need to be developed or changed. we are also used for tracking the bugs details in it **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** The dislike part is not much we can say on it that it should be more faster so that the user can handle in more fast which is present in it some time it has a lagging issues which should be resolved **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping us to track the progress of how much we have done so that the user can also be aware of it or any one who is using Azure in netapp can be aware of it ### 3. Technical Consultant **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Murali R. | Lead Technical Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** Easy to deploy and the performance is high with low maintenance **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** Cost of the azure NetApp file compared with CVO **Recommendations to others considering Azure NetApp Files:** Support NFS shares for DB and othe high iops requirements **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** NFS and cifs share requirements which support high latency application like SAP hana and AVD solutions ### 4. Azure NetApp Files - Enhanced Storage performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit D. | Associate Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** Best thing about Azure NetApp Files is that it enable you to quickly import your data on your on-premises storage. Azure NetApp Files provides high availability which gives a fault tolerant environment. Provides seamless experience in migration of on-premises storage to Azure. Simple setup and can be used as other Azure resources. **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** Backup and recovery functions could be improved. **Recommendations to others considering Azure NetApp Files:** Azure NetApp Files is a premium solution. It provides great features for storage solutions. If you have a right use case and money, go for it. **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** With fault tolerance, there is no loss of data. We have been using Azure NetApp Files for our Windows virtual desktop environment to provide seamless experience to the end users. ### 5. best experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shadi Y. | System & Network Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** flexibility in use and حrovide everything required **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** Nothing mentioned everything is fine and easy **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** load balancing and fault tolerance is very efficacy ### 6. Azure Netapp Files **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naman G. | Presales-Senior System Engineer | Sales Engineer-BFSI, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** Flexibility, fungiblity and ease of use. **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** Not so easy configuration and smallest block to start **Recommendations to others considering Azure NetApp Files:** Easy to use migration **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving workloads from on prem to cloud ### 7. Azure Netapp Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** Azure netapp is the best solution for the net backup and also the futuristic solution for the storage problem **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** Requires more functions in Gui. CLI is bit confusing **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used for storage backup and store data in disks. We usually used to retrieve backup whenever needed ### 8. Great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** Support for multiple protocols Multiple performance tiers Deep integration with Azure Leading certifications, including SAP HANA, GDPR, and HIPPA **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** There is nothing so far that I dont like about it. **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** SMB3.1.x is helping us with most of what we needed from it. ### 9. Azure netapp files are simple to use and better performance like we can use them on the go **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** We can access them remotely and use whenever we want **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** Nothing as such yet all seems to be good **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using azure netapp files for backup purpose and we restore few of them. Benefits are we can restore files easily and we can access them remotely. ### 10. Easy to use . **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** Security features and ssd performance... **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** Nothing as of now. ,not applicable...... **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure net app files is good for heavy workloads and database engines. ### 11. Great product which can meet your performance requirement **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** The reason we chose NetApp is because all the services of Azure storage account cannot meet our demand in terms of speed. And the Azure NetApp Files is the only one solution we found can solve it by providing much higher read and write speed **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** It's more expensive then using Storage account or other type of storages; At the beginning, there are few bugs when using terraform to deploy ANF **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** The reason we chose NetApp is because all the services of Azure storage account cannot meet our demand in terms of speed. And the Azure NetApp Files is the only one solution we found can solve it by providing much higher read and write speed ### 12. High Performance and easy to manage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** Easy to manage, faster allocation of high performance shared filesystem. Very usefull for HANA systems **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** Need to get ANF implementation support for Microsoft HLI systems for data migration. **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implementation of ANF in a new environment of HANA Sap systems. Easy task deploy in fly. ### 13. Netapp is great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure NetApp Files?** Performance and estabilites very well test users **What do you dislike about Azure NetApp Files?** no problem encontred for users repair in files and folders **Recommendations to others considering Azure NetApp Files:** yes **What problems is Azure NetApp Files solving and how is that benefiting you?** no problem ## Azure NetApp Files Discussions - [What are NetApp Files?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-netapp-files) - [What is NetApp Azure Files?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-netapp-azure-files) - [What is the difference between Azure Files and azure NetApp Files?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-azure-files-and-azure-netapp-files) - [What operating system and file system is on ANF](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-operating-system-and-file-system-is-on-anf) - 1 upvote - [Can I migrate non NetApp storage as well?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/50135-can-i-migrate-non-netapp-storage-as-well) - 1 upvote - [View Azure NetApp Files pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-netapp-files/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+09%3A46%3A40+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=03629c0d-b344-40db-93ac-e7de25722951&secure%5Btoken%5D=5e0839b08eec32ce6200d91e24dccf9ed18d68569253bc7630263a3568b07b59&format=llm_user) ## Azure NetApp Files Features **Functionality** - Data Migration - Data Variety - Alerts and Logging - Data Replication **Functionality** - Storage Scaling - Backup Support - File Security - File Organization **Management** - Backup and Recovery - Integration Variety - Access and Security - Real time Monitoring **Cloud Support** - Service Support - Cloud Transparency - Cloud Migration Support **Security** - Data Protection **Automation** - Intelligent Data Management - Workflow Automation **Agentic AI - Cloud Migration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Decision Making ## Top Azure NetApp Files Alternatives - [LucidLink](https://www.g2.com/products/lucidlink/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (639 reviews) - [SuiteDash](https://www.g2.com/products/suitedash/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (605 reviews) - [Agentforce 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)](https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-360-platform-formerly-salesforce-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,774 reviews)