We primarily use the solution as storage for our media files. We have an online system. The processing is also being done on that storage server. It's like native storage.
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Improved security and performance and helps with data management
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
It's improved our data management significantly. The performance and transfer of data have improved significantly.
The security functionality is very good. We are much more secure now.
It has improved our disaster recovery. We now have a good disaster program in place thanks to BlueXP.
BlueXP assists us with AI-driven data operations.
What needs improvement?
The dashboard management could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for about ten years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is excellent. I would rate it ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good. I'd rate it eight out of ten. We have around 150 people using the solution currently.
How are customer service and support?
We haven't had any issues with technical support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used Dell. We were promised a much more stable, robust solution and so we switched. It also had the size we needed to fit our requirements.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was moderate. I'd rate the experience six out of ten. The deployment itself took a couple of days.
What about the implementation team?
We had an integrator assist us with the implementation.
What was our ROI?
We have witnessed an ROI in terms of the output of the team. It's helped us speed up our work. We've noted a 60% increase in performance.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is reasonable. I'd rate the affordability seven out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
I'm a customer.
I'd recommend the solution to others due to the fact that it is stable, offers good performance, remains robust, and has helpful services.
I would rate the product eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Good support, nice interface, and natively integrates with NetApp
What is our primary use case?
The solution mirrors the data from on-prem to the cloud. BlueXP is software that sits on the cloud, and it's able to look into the data and extract it. We use it for data extraction.
What is most valuable?
The solution is from NetApp. It's treated like an individual solution. However, it's a full product. It's a backup and recovery tool.
The software interface can extract the data from the backend effectively.
It's a good solution as it natively integrates with other NetApp tools, and they can all work together as one product.
It's useful that it is a single solution.
What needs improvement?
It's a very expensive product. However, there are no other options if you go ahead with the NetApp product. You can't use other solutions to do this type of activity under NetApp. NetApp does not make it easy for you to integrate with other outside solutions.
The speed of the solution could be better. Sometimes it is pretty slow, depending on the environment.
In the first few versions, we were not able to browse and look into other storage types that replicated from on-premises. However, they've since updated the software.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have only used the solution for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is rock-solid. I've never had any serious problems. I'd rate the stability ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We're a pretty big company. This solution covers tens of thousands of users.
The solution is very scalable. You can upload hyperscalers in the cloud. Id's rate the scalability ten out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. It took a few hours to set up.
For maintenance, we have a third-party vendor that's helping us with support and lifecycle management of IT assets. There's a team of six people managing the maintenance. They are architects.
What about the implementation team?
We had a third party assist us with the deployment of the solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is expensive. However, it is in line with what other operators are offering. We do have a separate team that manages licensing. I'd rate the affordability of pricing at five or six out of ten.
There are no extra expenses over and above the core licensing cost.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did look into Azure File Services and Commvault. We also considered VMware. This solution was the only one that had full integration with NetApp and Azure.
What other advice do I have?
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. It's good.
I'd recommend the solution to others.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Reduces delivery time and helps in CBO deployment
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution to deploy CBOs in AWS and Azure.
How has it helped my organization?
NetApp BlueXP makes it easier to deliver products and manage inventory.
What is most valuable?
We can manage multiple systems from a single point. The tool makes it easy to deploy CBOs.
What needs improvement?
The tool needs to make its licensing pages more user-friendly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using NetApp BlueXP since 2017.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The tool's stability is not perfect, but pretty good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
NetApp BlueXP is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
I love the tool's support model. We purchased a specialized support model. They are very responsive.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The tool's deployment was straightforward. It is easy to add devices.
What was our ROI?
We have seen ROI with the tool's use.
What other advice do I have?
NetApp BlueXP has reduced the time to prepare and create a new CBO. It has reduced our delivery time.
I rate the product an eight out of ten.
Offers a unified control pane for a swift overview and provides simple and user-friendly visibility into storage
What is our primary use case?
We use it for all the different environments we have, such as on-premises, Azure, and AWS clouds.
One of the main challenges we faced was the need for a single point of entry for all our system managers and NetApp BlueXP solution helped us overcome this challenge.
It provides us with a quick and simple overview of all our systems. BlueXP provides us with a unified control pane.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the ability to view all our different systems in one place. That's the most important feature for us.
The visibility into the storage is simple and easy to use. You can navigate to SCM or Volumes with just a few clicks.
What needs improvement?
Integration with other NetApp tools like Cloud Insights and SnapCenter would be beneficial.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Performance could be a little better. In my opinion, it's a bit slow. If you click on something, it takes a while for the data to load. I can't understand why because it's just pulling data from all the different clouds, but that could be improved.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is okay.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support are good because if I pick up the phone and call a guy, I get an answer.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The deployment was very simple.
It involved discovering the systems and entering an IP address, user ID, and password, and the systems were integrated into the NetApp BlueXP environment.
What about the implementation team?
We worked directly with NetApp's team.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
NetApp BlueXP was our first choice.
Our goal is to minimize the number of tools we use. We prefer to stick with NetApp products whenever possible to avoid introducing third-party tools.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Control over the cloud
What do you like best about the product?
Better management of file and block storage deployed in cloud using the Cloud volume ONTAP,
Which gives me more control over the optimisation of cost, data protection and application performances.
Which gives me more control over the optimisation of cost, data protection and application performances.
What do you dislike about the product?
Few limitations when being used with different clound vendors, not significant. Works just the way it should
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps in deploying the cloud volume with more control over the cost, performance.
Full control over the storage without owning actual storage equipment
Full control over the storage without owning actual storage equipment
solution architect
What do you like best about the product?
I use netapp cloud volumes on ONTAP to integrate between on premise applications that need to integrate batch files. I also use Netapp storage to connect on premise and cloud solutions and an integration point.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pain in the rear to setup new mounts and paths on NAS. It is a pain to determine windows vs. linux. Assign AD user access and keep track of naming standards so you understand what each path is used for
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Setting up net new NAS mounts and storage folders requires multiple teams. First you need storage to build it. you need to make it compatible with windows or linux. I wish it just worked for both. then you need to work with security teams.
NetApp CS Review
What do you like best about the product?
Designed specifically for monitoring and troubleshooting hybrid clouds and hybrid cloud deployments.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its unique design is specifically for monitoring and troubleshooting hybrid clouds and hybrid cloud deployments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Indeed its monitoring capability
Recommendations to others considering the product:
One of the best and user-friendly product
One stop soln for enterprise storage
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud vol NTAP is quite helpful as it helps reduce cost of storage and also keeps data secure and private. It provides us with enterprise wide hybrid cloud data management
What do you dislike about the product?
As of now I haven't observed any cons for this product, it was awesome and flawless
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We ustilize it for big data analytics, and and NOSQl database
CVO Review from an NC Partner
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of deployment, familiar interface, reliable outcomes
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CVO makes transitioning to a cloud scenario less scary for some long time NetApp customers. Seeing something familiar in the cloud helps with the change.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Closely evaluate whether it is actually needed. CVO mimics many native cloud processes and functions.
Could be better in some aspects
What do you like best about the product?
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.
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have used this in all of my personal computers, office computers and since the administration of the volumes and other things are handled by us, now I could see how much these really help someone who is really trying to deploy these in the really easier versions with great interface and speed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go for it, this is the right direction. Please consider the money which you are buying this for since this may be more than what you use.
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