NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Reviews
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Write a ReviewAnanthakrishna T
PHD Scholar
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
The user interface is super easy with the kind of the volume management provided. The main feature is you can mount a volume to any of the device irrespective of the OS, brand and any other thing given you have proper bandwidth is really commendable.
The license is the main thing which I thought awesome in this product, where it has been so secure and having so many properties like snap-mirror, snap-vault, NFS, CIFS, etc. really makes this one special. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The price maybe a bit more than what I would have given for such a product. But since the security is really good, this have been like an ignore-able dislike.
Other thing is as I look at it, the snapshots for 7 mode systems were really slow when the reclaiming was happening, This is the one which bothered me a lot. When I was checking for any of my volumes size, it would be really high even if the snapshots are deleted and volume has enough space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Vadiraja T
Project Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best?
As I have used Netapp volumes to mount all of my cloud devices, this is really useful to me as I have seen ever. Previously I was using Hitachi for my personal documents and all, but after this has been introduced to me after such a short time with so many futuristic features, this has been one of the really cool ones I have used.
The security compliance they use, the hash programming, the commendable features like python integration is really cool which I have never seen before which can be so easily used and coded into the super complex systems too.
The ActiveIQ and user interface to maintain these volumes really helped me a lot in real time situations. Since I have been coding this to my interface with python, the speed and usage is hyper now.
The bandwidth and speed in which it works even in the low internet conditions has been really helpful to me in scarce situations too.
NFS, CIFS and ISCSI mounts are the building block of my systems now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The 7 mode older systems has been a little saggy in these days. The snapshots and their maintenance has been discarded by Netapp.
Even if the volumes are older, and support is difficult, I hope the Netapp guys continue supporting these systems which will not be of any harm.
Even the disk replacement costs has been increased for these older systems which I didn't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Mike A
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best?
Cloud Volumes OnTap allows us great flexibility to provide storage for our applications.
We can add new volumes in minutes. We can clone volumes to make current production data available for application development and testing in just a few minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Using Cloud Manager to manage the Cloud Volumes can be somewhat difficult. It requires getting used to a new way of managing the volumes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Rajesh R
Technical Lead
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best?
CVO provides the feasibility of moving (snapmirror) the data from on-prem to cloud with an option maintaining the ONTAP familiarity and efficiency features. Not required to switch to new technology/platform to maintain the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Transit Gateway supports only 1500 MTU. In fact, the limitation is provided by AWS. Cross account access may be on network bottleneck. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UM
User in Media Production
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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CC
Consultant in Computer & Network Security
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best?
Ease of deployment, familiar interface, reliable outcomes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Performance is lacking, reliability is a little shaky, documentation is disjointed. Also, it seems there are a lot of people at NetApp supporting CVO who don't really understand how it's deployed in a production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ian H
Red Hat Cloud Solutions Sales Specialist
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best?
Your investment in NetApp On-Tap is protected, and will allow you to seamlessly manage your on-premise CIFS/NFS volumes plus your adoption of new hyperscaler-hosted storage capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Multiple management consoles are confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Emerson N
Head of Technology
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Invitation from G2 on behalf of the seller
What do you like best?
This solution can be easily managed through a web-based portal, which makes it easy to manage and monitor my volumes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Some advanced features can be implemented only with CLI (command-line interface) which can be a challenge for non-advanced users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
AC
Administrator in Computer Software
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best?
The most beneficial aspect of CVO is the ability to easily scale and tailor instances to the needs of the environment. Adding disks, changing aggregates and balancing the cluster is all available with just a few clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Trying to manage a large environment from cloud manager is difficult. The footprint for cloud manager has to be dramatically increased in order to recognize any benefit from trying to manage on prem clusters through cloud manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Christy H
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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EI
Executive Sponsor in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Igor N
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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IO
Internal Consultant in Oil & Energy
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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CC
Consultant in Computer & Network Security
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
UC
User in Computer Networking
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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UA
User in Automotive
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
A legacy application was dependent on enterprise class CIFS support. Cloud ONTAP enabled the application to be hosted at AWS w/o compromising CIFS support /w SnapMirror support for DR.
Per instance performance constraints were overcome by logically segregating shares across multiple instances. Enabled us to get the application in the Cloud with minimal changes from a bare metal data center to continue its evolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Nothing much as of now, would like to see how it does over time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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