--- title: Oracle ZFS Reviews meta_title: 'Oracle ZFS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 29 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Oracle ZFS works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 29 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: IT Hardware url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-hardware --- # Oracle ZFS Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [Storage Systems Hardware](https://www.g2.com/categories/storage-systems) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 29 ## About Oracle ZFS Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance provides the performance and flexibility you need to meet current requirements and be ready for the cloud. ## Oracle ZFS Reviews ### 1. Oracle ZFS is fast and reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gulshan P. | Solutions Architect **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Oracle ZFS NAS is way too fast, its i/o speed is outstanding and way better than other NAS available in market. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** I didn't dislike anything major in ORACLE ZFS NAS. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle ZFS:** I recommend using ORACLE ZFS in your projects for fast i/o speeds. **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** NAS are generally a bit slow, but ORACLE ZFS NAS has shown remarkable speed in various projects I know and therefore caters the main challenge of speed in NAS STORAGES ### 2. Oracle New and Efficient File System **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajay K. | Software Engineer II, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** The following features of ZFS I like the most: 1. Pool Storage 2. Copy on Write 3. Snapshots 4. Cost-effective **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** The support system experience is not so good. Needs some improvement there. **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle ZFS is solving many good problems and provides features like Pool Storage, Copy on Write and Snapshots out of the box. I really enjoyed these features a lot as it makes my life so easy. ### 3. Efficient use for hierarchical file **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varsha K. | Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** I have been using Oracle ZFS for storing profiles of people. Hierarchy of folders and their accessibility is the best thing with Oracle ZFS. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** I dislike it cost slightly higher compared to some open-source tool, but it has its own advantage. **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle ZFS helps in arranging profiles for the company to a deep level and it also helps me in extracting multiple files at once efficiently. ### 4. Its very easy to learn and manage. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohd S. | System Administration Specialist **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** It's highly scalable and supports a large maximum file size. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Mainly its cost. Oracle ZFS storage machinery is very costly and small businesses can't afford it. **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** At the beginning on my career, I want to learn but can't afford it then someone recommends Oracle ZFS virtual storage simulation and now I learn it and I love it . ### 5. Easy to Manage the large scale Storage Work loads **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neelakanteswara R. | Technical Consultant (Technical Leader) at Syniverse **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Easy to migrate between the nodes and Manage **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** zfs scrubbing which will take a lot of time to run on even smaller luns **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to handle unpredicted space expansion when it is needed. ### 6. Great Performance with ZFS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh P. | Technology Architect **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Increase and decrease the filesystem easily **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** nothing, I had used for more than 4yrs and didn't find any flaw to point out **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Filesystem degraded and there are enough documents and support from ORacle to resolve it. ### 7. It is modern filesystem. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Riyaz Akhtar K. | Bigdata Engineer 3, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** It is modern filesystem. It has lots of new feature and data accessibility is good. Data and availability is good **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Price is little high and very less community support **Recommendations to others considering Oracle ZFS:** Go for demo and you will definitely love it **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data availability for my project was important which is solved by zfs ### 8. Senior associate at cognizant **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak C. | Oracle apps Dba, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Oracle ZFS storage appliance is next genration storage solution by oracle. This is suitable for high IO product. Another feature is all flash storage and cloud native support. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Appliance cost is very high . Flash storage cost is also high compared to other storage vendor. **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using ZFS storage appliance for all the enterprise requirement of storage. We are using it for File partition, oracle ASM storage as well. ### 9. Suitable for an entire Oracle hardware solution but not advised otherwise **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** The best option when working with Oracle Solaris zones Good memory caching Reliable data protection Can manage diverse workloads easily No setup fee intelligent advance storage space Commendable architecture **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Oracle hardware knowledge is mandatory and hence it is extremely difficult otherwise No free trial version Configuration in other environments is not seamless Fewer integration options with other environments **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my organization, I have used Oracle ZFS Storage as the one-stop solution for storage in high demanding environments. Its architecture has catered to my requirements very well. it helped me to create disk snapshots easily. The automatic compression technique has helped me a lot. Its hybrid storage pool is amazing. ### 10. One stop solution for Enterprise Storage needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Oracle ZFS offers better performance with low latency and better data availability solutions. Simplified Data migration service,cloud snapshots are best features. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** No specific items to mention, I just hope Oracle ZFS keeps evolving as per Industry demands **Recommendations to others considering Oracle ZFS:** If you are looking for one stop solution for all your storage needs, Go for it. **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database Backups are faster than ever, high speed I/O operations are really beneficial ### 11. Flexible Storage for hybrid solutions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Oracle ZFS is just extracted version of Sun solaris ZFS. This filesystem highly scalable and very light weight. Works as block storage and objects storage. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** UI is good but still lot of improvement can be done. As we know CLI is powerful since its runs on solaris **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complete storage solutions for Midrange systems. ### 12. Awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rupesh C. | Technical Services Specialist **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Rarely needs maintenance and supports large file system **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Nothing to dislike there anything, it's the most advance file systems **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Least maintenance and lowest steps to create and mount ### 13. ZFS Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Better performance Ease of configuration **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Data Recovery is challenging at time. The data recovery is something that can be improved. Also the hardware compatibility reuirements make it more challenging. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle ZFS:** Better performance **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** My HA applications requirement is solved by the Oracle ZFS. Ease of configuration and administration helps my end customers. The performance helps the end users ### 14. Help us to scale our storage system with the extensive protection against data corruption. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankush k. | System Engineer III **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Protection against data corruption. Performance and reliability. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Web interface isn't user friendly, sometime issue with the multi-node clusters with shared storage **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complexity of managing large numbers of arrays independently. ### 15. New era of file system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fenil P. | Senior Associate **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** file size and multiple system integration **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Not observed yet. I think after getting more experience I can write. **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating avsnapshot with object storage integration ### 16. Good product on current market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karthi K. | Assistant Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Data storage and performance, user friendly **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Managing with environment and gathering data **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fail over testing ### 17. Great experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Due to its copy on write architecture the crash recovery is very reliable which saves lots of time as otherwise, one would end up waiting for fsck to complete. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Due to its data integrity features, I've experienced performance issues on some occasions. **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not sure about this. ### 18. Fast, reliable and scalable best to manage the daya **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Fast, scalable and budget friendly for data **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** It is some what difficult for data recovery **Recommendations to others considering Oracle ZFS:** Best for data management **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It will support virtual machine, it is very useful for since I am working remotely and dealing with VM's ### 19. Oracle ZFS experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** Our filesystem and application performance increased compared to the earlier we were using some other NAS solutions. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Overall cost is little high compared to some other vendor in the market. **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Filesystem management become easily and mail part is it's best performance compared to another NAs solutions. ### 20. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** I like how the file management integrates into the system I already have. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** The UX can be a little clunky sometimes and confusing for the first couple times. **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solved the problem of losing files and being able to quickly find what I need. It has helped me be more productive than I was before. ### 21. Still checking storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle ZFS?** File system and logical volume manager and. **What do you dislike about Oracle ZFS?** Nothing still trying the and learning more **What problems is Oracle ZFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems yet, storage and logical management ## Oracle ZFS Discussions - [What is Oracle ZFS used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-oracle-zfs-used-for) - [View Oracle ZFS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-zfs/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=5§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-14+01%3A43%3A59+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a58f4439-4849-4737-82fc-c6d3929526a5&secure%5Btoken%5D=74778c4c6d75ff6ebc266a527d21a8964cc52a267af968757c2d423614a8d5cc&format=llm_user) ## Top Oracle ZFS Alternatives - [IBM Storage FlashSystem](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-storage-flashsystem/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (238 reviews) - [TrueNAS](https://www.g2.com/products/truenas/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (166 reviews) - [PowerScale](https://www.g2.com/products/powerscale/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (25 reviews)