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NETAPP EF540,24X800GB SSD,BASE

Mfg # EF540-24X800-R6 CDW # 3004853

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NETAPP EF540,24X800GB SSD,BASE is rated4.33 out of5 by6.
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Enables us to segregate one storage unit from another but it should have better integration with other productsWhat is our primary use case?We use NetApp for storage.How has it helped my organization?The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another.What is most valuable?Being able to partition different virtual volumes of storage is really valuable for us. It is pretty simple to manage.What needs improvement?Off the top of my head, I can't think of any improvements other than perhaps better integration with some of our Cisco products.What do I think about the stability of the solution?The solution is pretty stable. We haven't had many issues with it.What do I think about the scalability of the solution?I am not very familiar with how well it scales. Ever since I started it's been the same so we haven't really grown into it.How are customer service and technical support?I never had to use their technical support, so I don't have any opinion about it.If you previously used a different solution, which one did you use and why did you switch?I would probably switch to one of our new HyperFlex environments, which includes everything that we need. Right now with NetApp, we have to manage the storage and computer networking separately. With the HyperFlex solution, we could manage all three components in one place: storage, computing, and networking. That would be much easier.How was the initial setup?The initial setup was pretty straightforward.What other advice do I have?The more you can make it integrate into one solution, the better it is. It is less of a headache than having to configure three or four different things. One solution and one GUI is just the way to go.I would rate the solution about seven out of ten. It would be closer to ten if it supported integration with other products, not just Cisco.Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2019-09-22T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Offers better speed for the database and has good supportWhat is our primary use case?We use the on-prem deployment model of this solution. Our primary use case of this solution is for better speed for the database.What is most valuable?The most valuable feature of this solution is its speed.What needs improvement?The pricing could be cheaper and it should have documentation in more languages, specifically, Russian.They should develop faster building for the next release.For how long have I used the solution?I have been using this solution for around three years.What do I think about the stability of the solution?It's very stable.What do I think about the scalability of the solution?We haven't really tested the scalability options. Only I use this solution. We have around 1,000 clients using the database.How are customer service and technical support?Their technical support is very good. The power went off and they called us around five minutes later to ask what was going on. Whenever we have any questions they have quick answers.How was the initial setup?The initial setup was straightforward. I read the documentation and it was simple for me. The deployment took around three days.What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?The prices are average but in the last year we bought three of these and it was expensive.What other advice do I have?I would rate it a nine out of ten. In order to make it a ten, they should make the price cheaper.I would recommend it. It is very stable, fast, and offers good support. It fits our needs. We don't have issues with it. If you need a stable solution, you should choose NetApp. We have two NetApp solutions in my company and we don't have problems with either one of them.Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2019-08-29T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from It increased the speed of our current hosted VMs and their performanceHow has it helped my organization?It increased the speed of our current hosted VMs and their performance. It has provided a little bit of ease on the management.We have an older disk-based system that is working in tandem with it and it definitely has better performance. Because of that, we put all of our VM's on it, which we can.What is most valuable?* The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature.* It's been very reliable so far.* Its high performance for the VMware volumes that we host. It has multiple applications dedicated to it because of the different guest host that are on it.What needs improvement?The management interface, while very reliable, it seems a little old now and could maybe use a little modernization. Instead of having a management tool, more like a management interface or similar to the HTML5 version of the ONTAP off the FAS, such as OnCommand System Manager.What do I think about the stability of the solution?It's been very stable so far. Once it was set up, it's was extremely stable.What do I think about the scalability of the solution?It seems easy to expand, but we haven't had the need to do that yet.How is customer service and technical support?It was very good. We had some complications in getting the performance where we needed it. They were able to sort that out for us.Which solutions did we use previously?We were using the E2700 and had a lot of performance bound VMs, so that was the goal behind getting this solution.How was the initial setup?I was involved in the initial setup. It was a little bit complex because we had an InfiniBand solution. It's a little bit different than just setting it up with Fibre Channel, so that was a little bit complex, but everything else was very simple.What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?The price point for EF is considerably lower than the alternatives.Which other solutions did I evaluate?We considered all flash solutions that offered storage efficiency features.We had two other vendors on our short list. One was a rebranded RAID inc. solution. I don't remember what the other brand was, but there was one other that is fairly new in the market.We chose NetApp because most of our environment is NetApp. The unified management helps a lot. We've had really good results with everything that we've had with NetApp, therefore it works out.What other advice do I have?You can't beat it for the price. With support, everything has been really well. I would say this would be something I would recommend.Most important criteria when selecting a vendor:* Speed* Price point* Ease of management* Also, low latency is important, as it was the whole reason behind getting a faster system.Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from It is fast, stable and saves electricity and space.How has it helped my organization?More things get done faster. Time is money. If we have systems that are down for more than 10 minutes, that's $10,000 out the door, basically. They want true speed and being able to get up there.What is most valuable?The speed is the most valuable feature. It's a really good system. It's really fast; the speed's the best thing. It's one thing we love. Everybody wants to have everything faster and faster and faster. Knowing the speed's there, that's the best thing, along with the size and storage. I'm interested in the new stuff that's coming out, with the 32 terabytes. It will be interesting.What needs improvement?Once I play with it a bit more, I'll find out more about areas with room for improvement.Cheaper pricing is always good. NetApp ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/vendors/netapp ) has been doing everything the right way. They've been figuring out things really well, going in the right direction.I’m looking forward to the new shelves, the new disks and their sizes; how small you can get for lots of storage now. The size and speed are just amazing; always a good thing. Smaller systems save on electricity, save on space. We shrunk our server room down. We actually rebuilt it. We didn't have enough space for people to sit. We needed more office space. With everything so small, we cut our server room down and fit more people in. Our head count can go up and everything. People had jobs.I would like to shrink it more, if we can. The smaller, the better.What do I think about the stability of the solution?I think stability is really good. We just started using them now. We're just getting into it. We're getting more and more systems as we go along. So far, everything has been stable; we have not had any problems. It's all new.We never used flash arrays or anything like that before. This is all SSD and this stuff is all new to us.What do I think about the scalability of the solution?We'll find out about scalability. I think it will be perfect. We have small sites. We just purchased a big site, a half-a-million dollar site, for Plymouth, Michigan. We'll find out how that works out, scaling up from that point. We used to do the shelves, the SATA shelves, the SAS shelves and so on. Flash ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/categories/enterprise-flash-array-storage ) is completely new and any SSD ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/categories/ssd ) drives is all completely different to us. It will be interesting.How is customer service and technical support?I haven't dealt with technical support yet.Which solutions did we use previously?We go off a price list. We kind of figure out what best fits the needs of each site. We have hundreds of sites in US and Canada.We just wanted the speed. Everybody wants better IOPS and that was basically the reason why we chose it, to have better speed. Our sites need to be up; they need to be running.We previously used regular SATA and SAS shelves, strictly disk shelves and so on; no flash, no arrays, nothing like that.Which other solutions did I evaluate?Before choosing this product, we did not really evaluate other options. They’ve looked at IBM ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/vendors/ibm ) and EMC ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/vendors/dell-emc ). They've looked at that for some servers but most of the time, everything we stick to is with NetApp ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/vendors/netapp ). We don't go all over; we stick strictly with NetApp.What other advice do I have?So far, it's been fitting our needs. I've not had any issues with it, but it's all brand new to me. Right now, the install is great; everything is running fine; we haven't had any problems.Go with the NetApp EF-series All Flash Arrays, if you want good quality, reliability, speed and size. I think that's the way to go nowadays; flash is amazing. I'd give it the thumbs up to do it. Spend the money. It might cost a little more but the quality is the best, for me. Sometimes, you have to spend money for good quality.When selecting a vendor to work with, the most important factor for me is the relationship. We've had a great relationship with our sales managers and sales reps and we saw them at a recent conference. That's a key thing. You get the support you need. If something happens, they're on top of it, fixing it right away. Good service is the most important factor.Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2016-11-22T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from We're able to throw a pile of IOPS at it and it will handle it without much issue.How has it helped my organization?I can be less proactive about monitoring it. We don't have to mess with tweaking it as much. On the production SAN, for instance, we're always on there, monitoring performance, checking how it's doing. Whereas with the EF, because there's only one thing running on it, it runs so fast, we just let it go. We had to monitor previous solutions more; it's not that there was ever really a problem.What is most valuable?One of the most valuable features is the overall performance it provides. You're able to throw a pile of IOPS at it and it will handle that without much issue.We had a beefy SQL server that was trying to pull a large number of transactions all the time and it was causing problems on our production SAN environment. They wound up deciding they wanted to go with EF specifically for that and haven't had any problems ever since.What needs improvement?I'm a big fan of the cluster shell and everything on the FAS series. I know the E series kind of has its own OS. (I think NetApp purchased them.) To my knowledge, that doesn't even exist in the same way. A lot of that is to provide the IOPS that it does because it doesn't have to focus on all that other stuff. From a manageability perspective, I like the look and the feel of the FAS series better than the EF. I think it's more straightforward and simplistic. Even if it's not to that extent, I would like to see it move a bit more in that direction; a little more manageability, a simpler management interface. It's not necessarily that it's way overly complex. It's just that it's not as easy as the FAS series.What do I think about the stability of the solution?Reliability has been really good.No problems with stability; every upgrade we've ever done went off without a problem. We were able to do it live to the failover.What do I think about the scalability of the solution?We've never tried to scale it because the size of it's been good, so I wouldn't really know.How is customer service and technical support?Technical support depends on the issue. Sometimes, it was really good; other times, it was a struggle. Eventually, we always wound up with somebody who was really knowledgeable and helpful.One time, we had a problem with a LIF on our FAS 8060s. One of the Vservers was causing intermittent problems. The guy on the phone was adamant that it was not a NetApp issue. After about three hours of working with him, we finally just decided to hang up. I did some other testing, called him back with proof that it was NetApp and then it took about five minutes to solve. They said, “Oh well, just do this, there we go.”Which solutions did we use previously?They were already using EF when I started.I have not previously used a solution other than the FAS series.What other advice do I have?Plan out everything ahead of time. Have your fabric in place. We've had times before, where that was an oversight. It was never thought of in terms of getting networking fabric set in. Then, whenever we'd bring in the NetApp solution to plug in and the fabric's not there, then you get these long delays. Make sure you know everything that's going to be needed and have it in place ahead of time.When I look for a vendor to work with for EF or any similar solutions, for me, the most important factors are honesty, prompt response, willing to work with us, a general feeling like that they care about our company and our needs, and not just about the sale. Without that, it's difficult to trust them or work alongside them.Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2016-11-30T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Its performance solved a problem with the very strong SQL workload we have.What is most valuable?For us, the most valuable feature is the performance. We have a very strong SQL workload that was struggling on several other providers, and it solved that problem for us.What needs improvement?If you're not using DDP, it is a little tedious to configure.I've seen the new firmware with the 2800, and they've automated some things that were manual. It was a four-step process for every volume you wanted to create before, and it looks like they fixed that in the coming firmware, although from what I understand it will be a little while before it gets to the 550.For how long have I used the solution?We've had it for about two-and-a-half years.What do I think about the stability of the solution?We have not had any down time with it at all. We had one controller failure in the two-and-a-half years, and was able to have that replaced with zero down time.What do I think about the scalability of the solution?We have not had to expand the product yet. We sized it for what we thought was going to be growth for three years, and we have not outgrown it yet, so I don't see an issue with it.How is customer service and technical support?We've had a very good experience with technical support, especially on the EF products. They reached out to us when we had the failure, and we had somebody onsite within four hours.We have not had an issue from a performance or a technical standpoint. We had an issue with some monitoring that we wanted to do; finding the right person within NetApp ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/vendors/netapp ) to help us with that.Which solutions did we use previously?This was a new initiative.How was the initial setup?Initial setup was pretty complex for us. We weren't able to use dynamic disk pooling, just because we were very concerned about performance. NetApp brought somebody onsite for us to help us out, and they recommended against using DDP.They helped us with the first one, I think we had it configured in about four hours. We added another one six months later and did that ourselves.What other advice do I have?The most important criteria when selecting a vendor is the support infrastructure and pricing.When we compared it to other all-flash arrays ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/categories/enterprise-flash-array-storage ), it was the most cost-effective solution and really the most performant that we looked at.My recommendation to my peers is that they know for sure what their performance needs are; that they size it properly to support those needs.Performance wise, it's phenomenal. We haven't had to touch it much since we had it up and running.Making configuration changes on the version of firmware that we have is a little bit more difficult than other products.Disclaimer: IT Central Station contacted the reviewer to collect the review and to validate authenticity. The reviewer was referred by the vendor, but the review is not subject to editing or approval by the vendor.
Date published: 2016-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Performance and proactive support.How has it helped my organization?When we have certain standards for performance, the customer experience is much better as well. They expect to have that kind of performance maintained or improved in the future. If there's a glitch, for example, whether it's storage or network, that's where customers start complaining about performance and the business goes haywire after that, for a while, until we fix the problem.NetApp maintains the very high performance that we want to have. We work very closely with their engineer to make sure that every update they have will line up with what we require, or to fix whenever we have found problems in the past. We don't want to run into issues where, this is the price to upgrade to a certain version, and there is a certain impact.What is most valuable?I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance. That's why we're using NetApp to run our business. For example, with databases. We run a lot of Oracle databases that rely on performance because we want to have the business application respond within a certain amount of time for business transactions.What needs improvement?The EF Series has the web services outside the box, not inside. It doesn’t have the full OS, like Data ONTAP. You have to have a proxy web service that interfaces with all of the EF Series and you develop your application through that. I would like to have that interface inside the EF Series, so we don't have any dependence on the proxy service.I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. Those are things I trust NetApp to do. It's a company that's doing it right to get all the hardware and software to work together seamlessly.Nonetheless, there are a couple of other things that NetApp hasn't done right. For example, NetApp still relies on the SAS bus of the backbone, so you still have the SAS controller. That’s a bottleneck for doing the lightning speed of flash. That's the limitation of flash. The industry right now is moving to NVMe. That stuff actually goes directly to the bus. It's actually faster. That's the first one.As I’ve mentioned, a full OS like ONTAP for the EF Series is another one; actually have a shell and people could work directly on that. It's easier than using a proxy command through another machine. It's a limitation for us to work on.NetApp is famous for redundancy, data protection, replication and so on, with ONTAP. I’m looking for a solution in the EF Series; a solution to mirror the storage off the chassis, off the data center, such as SnapVault or SnapVolumes. They don't have that yet. That's something I keep comparing with ONTAP because we were probably the biggest customer back in the old days with NetApp for Data ONTAP. I'd like to see those features come on over to EF Series as well.What do I think about the stability of the solution?As you know, NetApp is very famous for HA and failover, so stability is not a problem with FAS in the past and then now the EF Series as well. They always have hot dual controllers that we can rely on if there are some issues with the hardware; it can still fail over to get the business going. We don't have any problems with that. However, we also have another layer where we rely on technologies such as Oracle. Oracle has multiple technologies to keep the business going and rely less on the hardware redundancy. For example, Oracle has GoldenGate technology, Data Guard and so on, so that’s another layer that we're using.What do I think about the scalability of the solution?Our solution is actually focused on breaking the pieces into a manageable vertical, where we focus on performance. When it begins to have a little bit of latency, we start to split it out. That's scalability on the application side. Infrastructure-wise, we design that way because we know NetApp can meet certain requirements that we have. Beyond that, maybe not, so we have to design our application to work around that.How is customer service and technical support?I use technical support every day. They’re very proactive. AutoSupport is always the key when getting NetApp; basically, NetApp is famous for AutoSupport. If you buy a NetApp product without AutoSupport, it's not NetApp. We are always relying on the proactive support from NetApp. They call me even if I didn't get a notification from my customers. They call me ahead of time. They page us. They work with our on-call team directly, where they page to the on-call center and then we're like, "Oh, NetApp paged us. What's going on? Oh, because a controller is misbehaving.” Even if the customer has not noticed the performance problem, NetApp is already on top of it. That's what we like about the support. I think we have platinum support, which helps.How was the initial setup?Nowadays, we're more like a data center, so we don't necessarily do the hands-on installation but we do have people on-site. We do have the knowledge transfer to those people that do the necessary installation, and then me and my team do the rest when we have a consultant. For example, I don't see the issues every day but we work on them every day.Initial setup very complex, depending on the solution you're looking at. We're looking at databases, so we're looking at an InfiniBand fabric kind of SAN. Being able to get that kind of setup right the first time is always a challenge. People don’t plug cables in all the way and you have cable problems. You don't necessarily see that until you get everything up and running: "Oh, we’re missing a path." Stuff like that.Which other solutions did I evaluate?At the time, 7-8 years ago, we were looking at flash, because we have a need to reduce performance lag. There were many solutions back then, such as Violin and all the vendors that provide flash storage, IBM, TMS, Nimbus, and so on. We were evaluating a lot of companies at the time. At the same time, NetApp purchased the company that was running the EF Series. We evaluated everything that we had at the same time. We came up with the solution to continue with NetApp because of the support and the relationship that we had with NetApp, rather than invest our time to go with another company that we don't necessarily know what they're doing.For example, Nimbus; we don’t know what they're doing. They’re just a startup. We didn’t know if they were going to stay in business or not. Violin might also be gone, and then all of the time you invest working with that company, is also gone.We use the enterprise support model, where we can rely on almost like a partner. We know that NetApp is a stable company that we can rely on.In general, when I look for a vendor, the important criteria that I basically look for are the roadmap of the products, support and the customer base. When you have a lot of people that trust the company, you know that you are choosing the right solution.What other advice do I have?The EF Series has a lot of lines, a big lineup. Look at your application’s performance requirements. The EF Series is all about performance. Choose the right line of product because you can have so much performance but if your application does not need that much, you waste a lot of money, especially if it’s flash. You waste of lot of money.Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2016-12-11T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from It is a point solution for low-cost, high-performance, low-latency block storage.How has it helped my organization?Part of our business is data processing. Any time we can take processes that are slow, find the pain points and speed them up, it helps a lot of different parts of the business.What is most valuable?It's a way to get relatively low-cost, very high-performance, low-latency block storage as a point solution. We've been using it to target database applications where there are particular files that really need more performance than we're able to give with our other products right now.What do I think about the stability of the solution?We've really had no issues. It's been a very stable product for us.How is customer service and technical support?We’ve only used technical support to assist with some upgrades. I've always been very happy with them.Which solutions did we use previously?We were reaching the performance limits of what we could do with SAS at that time, and AFF ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/netapp-all-flash-fas ) wasn't really an option yet. We looked around and it was clear to me that I'd prefer to not go with another vendor. We had really good experience with FAS ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/netapp-fas-series ). I'd prefer to stay with a NetApp solution.How was the initial setup?I was not involved in the initial setup; my admin was. It seemed pretty straightforward.Which other solutions did I evaluate?There weren’t any other vendors on our shortlist. We pretty much turned to NetApp ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/vendors/netapp ) very quickly, once it was clear that they had a product that we could afford and would meet the need.When I choose a vendor, support is a huge consideration. I want to have a stable product that, when there are issues, they are prepared to take care of them; they understand what they are doing; they understand our needs. Affordability is also very important for us too. We found all of those things in NetApp. The pricing was reasonable. I have no complaints there. It could always be cheaper, of course.What other advice do I have?I suggest looking at your needs and decide whether EF or some of the other NetApp products are more appropriate. If the EF is the most appropriate, I don't have any hesitation recommending it.Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2016-11-28T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Easy to set up and performs well, but Technical support is poor for software-related issuesWhat is our primary use case?The primary use case of this solution is for banking services. It is one of three of our production systems in which we store all of our customer's data.Thirty percent of our production traffic for our company is stored with this solution.The deployment model used is a private cloud.What is most valuable?The main advantage of this solution is performance.This solution does not have any compression or deduplication, but instead gains better performance through concurrency.What needs improvement?We cannot share data in what is described as a trunk port, which is a disadvantage.Technical support is an area that needs improvement.In the next release, I would like to have staged access. The administrator would be able to connect to all of the storage and see real-time performance and issues, not only in the web interface. If the administrator is working on the console they should have access to all interfaced controllers.For how long have I used the solution?I have been using this solution for two years.How are customer service and technical support?I have had a couple of technical tasks, but I think that they have good technical support when you inquire about hardware. They have a problem when you ask about software-related issues.When you have a hardware issue, it is reloved within the time limit described and agreed to in the SLA.When it's a software-related issue, it is difficult to find an engineer that can help you. You spend time describing your issue to a person who then says that they can help you, but it will take time. A week later you explain it again.Only when they prioritize your request, will they assign an engineer to resolve your issue.How was the initial setup?The initial setup was easy. I spent an hour with the setup.One of the last initial setups I performed was difficult. It was on IBM Storage and the manual stated that you could connect to an IP address. It was supposed to work but when you connected to this address it did not ping and you cannot connect to them.We had to connect with the console and create a cluster manually. This took approximately five hours. In the last two years, since the deployment, I have not had any issues with it.It is very easy, and even a person with a minimal background could do it with no problem.What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?We are not talking about using this for all of our data storage, as that can be very expensive. We have singular pricing for the solutions we use.Vendors who provide all-flash storage have singular pricing that depends on a couple of factors.Which other solutions did I evaluate?If we compare this storage solution with Concurrent, the price is the same, but the performance is much better.The pricing is comparable with other competitors and similar in mid-range solutions, and for high range solutions, it would depend on our requirements or needs.What other advice do I have?I would recommend this solution to others.I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2019-09-22T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from It's fast enough that there's no significant latency in our applications; and it's easy to add another targetHow has it helped my organization?It's quick. That was our big requirement, it had to be fast enough that there's no latency in our applications between when the end users are logging in through Citrix, and then those servers all talk back to our back-end servers. There can't be any major latency be it disk I/O or network I/O. So, it's all pretty quick.What is most valuable?It's pretty easy. If you ever have to add another target, it's pretty easy to go through, you just add a new one, map the drives out to our ESXi host, and then we're all set and good.What needs improvement?I'm not too hands-on with it, so I don't have any major input on things it needs or things it should have. As long as its functionality is there for me to use, as somebody just to use the storage on it, that's all I need it for. I'm very simple.What do I think about the stability of the solution?It hasn't gone down. We have no issues. I'm not their storage admin, so he'd probably know a little bit more about it, but we haven't experienced any major issues that I'm aware of.What do I think about the scalability of the solution?We haven't had the use for needing to scale it up as we're going, so it's just kind of been as it is.How is customer service and technical support?I think we used the professional services for initial deployment, and then we've gone along with it. I don't think we've used tech support for that. We've used it for our NetApp shelf that we've got; we sometimes run into some issues. But not for this thing.Which solutions did we use previously?I don't think we were previously using a different solution. Our business was finally letting us spend some money on some good hardware and we decided to take a chance, I guess.Which other solutions did I evaluate?I actually wasn't involved in that process, so I don't know the answer to that.What other advice do I have?Our use case is both corporate storage and for all of our datacenter and back-end enterprise applications. We store it all on the flash, so it's quick.We use it for multiple apps. J.D. Edwards, so it's our accounting software, and then all of our BI business intelligence is sitting on there. Those are the major ones. We'll see, we might be getting HCI soon so that might change, put some more on there. Mostly just our big I/O.For us the most important criteria when selecting a vendor: oftentimes it's reviews. Support is critical. Ease of use isn't so much an issue. Usually we just look at the feature set and see if it coincides with what we need, what we require, and then we pick whatever most closely fits that.In terms of advice to a colleague looking at this type of solution I would recommend this one. It depends on the size of the company. Obviously to a small, medium size business, you're probably not going to recommend it because it's probably overkill.When I say overkill, I mean it's probably way more than a smaller or a start-up company would need. They're not gonna have that much of a requirement for that kind of speed, that quick. I'd say for small, medium, unless they have deep pockets, I don't recommend it. They can probably get something comparable that more fits their budget. Once you start hitting a certain threshold, you're definitely going to have to start investing some money in IT to make sure it's stable and stays up and you have no issues.Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2017-10-23T00:00:00-04:00

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