Qumulo on AWS V1 [Deprecated - Expansion Only]

We use Qumulo for end-user storage and some application storage as well.

Qumulo has helped our organization concerning computer storage and speed. The performance and reliability have gone up as well. There is not nearly as much outage because we can easily set every update onto the second cluster. We experience just a split second of downtime, and our end users don't experience downtime, which is a lot better than what we used to have.

The most valuable features of Qumulo are its rolling updates and all-day availability. No failover is available in Qumulo by default, but we discussed it with our Qumulo contact and enabled a failover. If we have a disaster with our file server, nothing is recoverable. However, with Kumolo, we have a failover and a second cluster standing dormant.

Initially, the failover was supposed to be implemented in Qumulo itself. This failed to happen mid-case, so we had to devise a middleman solution. It was not the cleanest of solutions, but we did get something that worked. Some anti-theft permissions do not transfer well to Qumulo.

I have been using Qumulo for a year and a half.

Qumulo is a stable solution.

We have a development cluster running, and we tested adding a third cluster or a few external nodes just in case. It turned out to be quite easy. The new nodes automatically present themselves to the existing cluster. It was just a matter of picking them up and helping them in.

At the moment, about 150 users are using Qumulo. Once we are fully finished, we'll be up in the 1,000 to 2,000 range. We have quite a large user base.

So far, Qumulo's technical support has been very responsive and extremely helpful.

Before Qumulo, we were using Windows Server. We switched to Qumulo because Windows Server got a little bit old and provided no high availability for a company of our size.

We took a month to deploy Qumulo. We chose a vendor, and then it's a matter of flashing the Qumulo flow commands. After they deliver the Qumulo quite node version, it's just syncing up all the nodes into a cluster, and the rest is handled quite easily and automatically.

We had to wait about eight to nine months for the hardware to be delivered. Before we could even start thinking about deployment, everything from networks, which are the nodes themselves, took quite a while, and this wasn't Qumulo's fault. This was more of a supply issue.

Qumulo requires some maintenance, mainly the updates and upkeep of scripts.

We are working with the latest version of Qumulo. Planning is key. We took multiple months to plan everything, which was barely enough.

Overall, I rate Qumulo an eight out of ten.

We are using Qumulo to store live organization materials. For example, from Disney, Warner Bros, etcetera. Additionally, for online storage. I checked the quality of the media and would send it to the vendor.

Since using Qumulo our work at our company has been quicker and more effective.

The most valuable features of Qumulo are the ease of management and special permissions that are quick to enable. The overall performance of the solution is good.

The support for iMac and protocols should be improved, not all features are available.

I have been using Qumulo for approximately two and a half years.

Qumulo is stable.

The solution is scalable. You only have to add new nodes and clusters for space.

We have 15,000 using the solution.

We have petabytes of data in our environment.

The support is easy to get a hold of them. They have 24-hour-a-day support.

I was using Dell EMC Isilon, but it was outdated, so we switched to Qumulo.

The initial setup of Qumulo was easy with the expert we had hired.

We have to install the clusters and switches for the full installation of Qumulo.

The full process can take two to three hours.

We used an expert engineer to help us with the implementation of the solution.

We have received a return on investment using Qumulo.

We evaluated cloud storage and other services. However, our main partner suggested we use Qumulo.

The solution requires general monthly maintenance.

I would suggest to others to consider this solution if they need quick assess memory. It might be too quick for regular users.

I rate Qumulo a nine out of ten.

Our primary purpose for utilizing Qumulo was to provide a file-sharing platform for our marketing department, which also served as an archive for their videos, pictures, and other assets related to past events and marketing campaigns. They had accumulated a significant amount of older data, which they accessed through this platform, while also utilizing it as their current working file-sharing system.

Qumulo served as a file-sharing tool that stored our data across two clusters, one located at our production site and the other at our DR site. We implemented replication to ensure the protection of our data. All of our users, including those in the marketing department who primarily used Macs, were able to access the shared files. In essence, Qumulo functioned solely as a means of file storage.

The most valuable feature of Qumulo is the ability to share files and reliability.

One aspect of Qumulo that I hoped to see improved was its software upgrade process, which did see significant progress during my usage. Initially, upgrading the software resulted in several minutes of system downtime. However, by the time I departed last summer, the downtime had reduced to mere ten seconds. Although I am unsure if Qumulo has yet achieved a completely outage-free upgrade, I simply performed the upgrades early in the morning before the marketing department began its workday, so any downtime was inconsequential.

I have been using Qumulo for approximately three years.

I rate the stability of Qumulo a nine out of ten.

It has been easy to grow and add new clusters.

I rate the scalability of Qumulo an eight out of ten.

The support I received was excellent.

I rate the support of Qumulo an eight out of ten.

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The initial deployment was straightforward.

The price of Qumulo is reasonable. 

When we evaluated other options the reasonable price of Qumulo was one of the factors of why we choose it.

My advice to others would be for them to try the solution out.

I rate Qumulo an eight out of ten.