--- title: Qumulo Core Reviews meta_title: 'Qumulo Core Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 19 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Qumulo Core works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 19 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-14' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Qumulo Core Reviews **Vendor:** Qumulo **Category:** [Cloud File Storage Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-file-storage) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 19 ## About Qumulo Core Qumulo is the breakthrough leader in simplifying unstructured data management at massive scale across hybrid-cloud environments. Qumulo provides a high-performance file data platform designed to store, manage and create workflows and applications with data in its native file form. Qumulo’s File Data Platform is both future-proofed and seamlessly works with existing applications and technologies: It enables customers to easily manage the full data lifecycle from ingestion, transformation, publishing and archiving with cost-effective capacity, dynamic scalability, automatic encryption, real-time analytics, and an advanced API so they can easily integrate Qumulo into their technology ecosystem and workflows. ## Qumulo Core Reviews ### 1. Qumulo array review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin F. | Sr. Network Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** After the setup of the system, I spend less than 1 hr a week logging into the multiple arrays and checking them to make sure everything is going well **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** The worst part of owning the arrays is doing the firmware updates. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** The arrays house inspection images for production and security camera footage for more than 500 cameras. ### 2. Qumulo Review by Christopher Wilmot **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher W. | Senior Data Center Operations engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** The response time to speak to a technical person **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** After using Qumulo for a few years, I still have not found anything I dislike. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before Qumulo, we were using an Expensive all-flash solution with windows on the front end. Qumulo is a much more cost-effective solution. ### 3. Qumulo a scalable high performance file system that is easy to deploy and manage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt D. | IT Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** Having worked with other storage platforms for number of years, Qumulo is a breath of fresh air, it is is simple to deploy and simple to manage. The UI is simple and straightforward to use and the documentation takes you through every thing you need to do, step by step. From receiving the equipment on site, deploying, migrating 200TB of data and bringing the system into production, all of it was completed in days. The best feature is being able to see where your data is, how big it is and how its grown, it allows me to provide valuable insights to the business. Their support is via Slack, has been a very good experience with a quick and helpful response. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** So far after 4 months I haven't found anything to dislike **Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:** Make sure you understand your performance requirements **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Qumulo to consolidate 4 separate file systems to one and to provide disaster recovery and business continuity by replicating data to a remote Qumulo system. The benefits were: Reduced Power consumption and cooling requirements Reduces space needs (8U vs 36U) Simplified admin Greater performance, single tier, so no need to move files around Overall reduced TCO ### 4. Great storage for Media and Entertainment companies **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kevin m. | IT infrastructure supervisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** The support, cannot rave about it enough, they have become an extension of our service desk. They are very helpful and response. The model they use is slack based so you simple chat in slack and are talking direct to the engineers about your issue. The software is also very simple and well documented, the rest API is fully featured since the web interface is built on top it. Onboarding was incredibly easy and they had an engineer to help us get started They are also a heavy agile shop so updates come out every 2 weeks, with the option for a quarterly roll up, they are very active in seeking out end user feedback on features and direction **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** Early on there was no RBAC support and upgrades had to be planned due to outage of file services. Those have all been fixed, not much I can say I dislike. They are not the most expensive in the market place but also not the cheapest During implementation we ran into issues with how they implemented SMB 2.1 protocol, so we worked with engineering a lot and had to revert a lot of users to NFS while some users were able to stay on SMB **Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:** I would highly recommend them over any other company, the support is what is the best part, one of our concerns going from block level fibre channel to NAS was performance and interoperability with Adobe products. We have not noticed issues and have not missed a beat **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a very expensive fibre channel SAN which made it very hard to scale and upgrade. We are in a season of agressive growth - 25-35 TB a year so adding storage with Qumulo is easy Also understanding storage is easy - the metadata they provide helps me understand heavy users in terms of IOPs and storage breakdown and growth Also as work loads mix across devices having a NAS vs a SAN is helpful for a simple sharing experience, Qumulo also does a good job with SMB and NFS sharing at the same time ### 5. Qumulo Core Storage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** Qumulo has best-in-class support for its products. The web interface is modern and provides excellent analytics for monitor the health and performance of the cluster. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** Lack of NFS-v4 ACLs is something on the roadmap but not yet implemented. Overall I am happy with the product. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project storage and near-line archival are both problems solved by using Qumulo. The benefits realized including lower management costs, storage efficiencies gained from the filesystem design, and excellent support. ### 6. New Game Changer Qumulo **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adem Y. | Storage System Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** User friendly GUI and easy upgrade process **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** S3 protocol is not supportted. I hope will be come at future **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is faster response many workload type and easyly presentation NAS storage req. ### 7. Scalable file system and high performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** Simplicity, visibility, performance and scalability **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** not much to dislike with regards to technology could offer better pricing as this is always a constraint for us **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** File access for 20k staff is now delivered with performance and complete visibility in usage analytics (in real time) and also a reduction (zero) in downtime without the overhead of the previous windows SMB patch management issues. ### 8. Great hybrid-capable storage solution - upgrading from Isilon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave L. | IT Lead | Business Applications and Desktop Support, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** No tree walks, easily have storage on prem and in the cloud with replication across the platforms. They have migration solutions available to make it an easy swap from your old system. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** I haven't seen any down sides yet. If I had to say anything, maybe cost? However, the cost is reasonable for what you get and it was cheaper than Isilon, so we haven't seen any reason to go think about another solution. **Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:** Get a demo now! It may not be the best fit for everyone, but this was a great solution for a small to mid size business. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** No tree walks, so it's much easier to filter through the data. Being able to create a hybrid storage environment from day 1. They have migration solutions available so it's easy to move from an old/different system. ### 9. Speed of work **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** Speed and versatility of the system. Using something this robust has really taken our work to the next level. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** Errors that offset work and delay our production schedules. Support side has been helpful but can often confuse my team who are not IT peeps. **Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:** Take it for a test run and put it through its paces. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** Video asset management. ### 10. Simple and Easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Can G. | Information Technology Consultant - Broadcast Systems, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** We can easily control all data. Easy and practical controllable storage. Authorizations are useful. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** Other than being a bit expensive, there is no problem. **Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:** Expensive but worth compared to other storage servers. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** The replaced discs did not have an external problem. This problem was resolved after the updates. ### 11. Amazing company and after sales support is top tier **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** The team at Qumulo is very helpful in any issues we have had. They are proactive and are always monitoring our Storage Stack. They have many times informed us of issues with the stack we haven't even noticed. Even at those times, they have always excelled and always ensured we are kept in shape. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** Nothing I can think of that I dislike about them. **Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:** I can assure you that you cannot go wrong with choosing Qumulo. The device, support, and vision that the company has enabled us to look to them only for storage. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are provided a large data platform for our company which is fast, informative and great to use. ### 12. IT'S AMAZING **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** QUMULO WAS THE BEST CHOICE WE COULD MAKE, IT'S PERFECTLY SCALABLE, FAST AND IT'S INCREDIBLE ON ADVANCED GRAPHIC PROJECTS. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** I HAVE NOT FOUND DEFECTS UNTIL THIS TIME. THE STORAGE IS PERFECTLY WORKING **Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:** I strongly suggest, before the rack installation, to take all the measurements of the device and to take pictures of the appliance, because in case of need to contact the support, they require all this information. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** WE NEED A HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND LARGE STORAGE, BECAUSE THE COMPANY THAT USES IT HAS A BIG HANDLING OF LARGE SIZE FILES. AFTER SPENT YEARS OF CONTINUOUS CLEANING OF GRAPHIC PROJECTS, WE FOUND THE SOLUTION WITH QUMULO. ### 13. Awesome product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** How easy to use it is. The robust API library. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** I think the product could use some more reporting features **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cheap rapidly expandable storage ### 14. Unmatched support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** We use their support on Slack. There is no lag on waiting for emails and the impersonal nature of emails. The right person has the answer or gets it promptly. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** There is always that fear that they are small enough to get bought out and we lose the support that we like so much **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had terrible performance problems with our previous storage large due to the configuration we purchased (capacity over performance). Our all flash array is no longer any limitation on our users data usage. ### 15. Qumulo Cluster for our transcoding production **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** I really like the API which allows you to do everything, and get all the necessary metrics. Fetching metadata "instantly" is also a huge plus, as is full access auditing. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** The API is great, but you need to have some development skills to code what you want. It is therefore necessary to have internal DEV resources, but if this is the case, the API remains simple to use. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have our entire file transcoding chain on it. The auditing allowed us to find bugs in our own applications. ### 16. Qumulo Real-Time Analytics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** The Qumulo real-time analytics on the cluster are great. It is awesome to be able to see where files are being written and who is writing or reading those files. It really helps with troubleshooting issues. The ease of management is also great. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** I wish there were some sort of email system for alerts. Their cloud based management is great but we would like local alerting. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to reduce storage expansion. The Qumulo analytics have really helped us eliminate dupication. ### 17. Good solution for Petabyte scale **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavel R. | Cloud Operations Team Leader, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** Simplycity and performace. New feature coming in new releases. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** Networking management would be better. Some improvements in multi-tenancy is required from my opinion. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** High performance petabyte scale storage for video platform ### 18. Great product with growing feature set **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** We switched from a legacy vendor that charged twice as much per TB as Qumulo. In addition to SMB & NFS access, we have begun to use a wide variety of Qumulo features, including the API and replication. **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** Our biggest complaint was the lack of effective cross-protocol permissions. This has been fixed in the newest versions of Qumulo by XPP. **Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:** Know your use case well and determine if cross-protocol permissions are right for you. Our largest pain points have come from users wanting POSIX permission bits on ACL files, which did not work well until XPP. Now that XPP is out, we need extended testing to ensure that it does not cause additional pain points. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have solved a multitude of problems using Qumulo - including replicating our very large on-premise data sets for disaster recover scenarios and using the API to accelerate file transfers. ### 19. Qumulo replaced some of our NFS storage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qumulo Core?** That it is intelligent network storage that does not require a separate NFS server **What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?** Can be expensive and somewhat complicated to setup and the interface is not as robust as we would like **Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:** Amazing storage to replace an NFS storage system. **What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing us network storage without having to run a separate server such as an NFS server ## Qumulo Core Discussions - [How does Qumulo provide visibility into how the filesystem is used?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-qumulo-provide-visibility-into-how-the-filesystem-is-used) - [Is Qumulo a SAN or NAS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-qumulo-a-san-or-nas) - [What is Qumulo used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-qumulo-used-for) - [What kind of file system does Qumulo provide?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-kind-of-file-system-does-qumulo-provide) - [View Qumulo Core pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/qumulo-core/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-20+14%3A59%3A29+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=423a115e-84a4-460d-9b0a-beee0f2bb68c&secure%5Btoken%5D=f8650d917fd2a2d52e269c3e6fbe310f94073a291d99fe1c29071589f116132c&format=llm_user) ## Qumulo Core Features **Performance** - High Availability - Low Latency - High Scalability - Fast Application Deployment **Functionality** - Storage Scaling - Backup Support - File Security - File Organization **Functionality** - Versioning - Scalability - Speed of access **Functionality** - Simplified Management - Monitoring Tool - Cost-Saving **Cloud Support** - Service Support - Cloud Transparency - Cloud Migration Support **Reliability** - Redundancy - Availability **Security** - Business Continuity - Data Security **Automation** - Intelligent Data Management - Workflow Automation **Security** - Encryption - Auditing - Access control **Compatibility** - Infrastructure compatibility - Interoperability ## Top Qumulo Core Alternatives - [Google Cloud Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-storage/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (564 reviews) - [Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-storage-service-s3/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (842 reviews) - [LucidLink](https://www.g2.com/products/lucidlink/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (644 reviews)