NetApp AFF A-Series vs. NetApp AFF C-Series

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NetApp AFF A-Series
Score 9.0 out of 10
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NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.N/A
NetApp AFF C-Series
Score 0.0 out of 10
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An all-flash storage systems based on QLC media address , NetApp AFF C-Series systems help move data to flash with QLC flash technology. These systems are suited for large-capacity deployment as a way to modernize enterprise data centers to all flash and also connect to the cloud. Powered by NetApp ONTAP® data management software, AFF C-Series systems are designed to deliver efficiency, flexibility, and data services and cloud integration to help scale IT infrastructure, simplify data…N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
NetApp AFF A-Series
8.3
Ratings
8% below category average
NetApp AFF C-Series
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Ratings
Flash Array Performance9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Flash Array Integration9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Compression6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Simplicity8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Power Savings8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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Usability
9.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Easy interface and the accessibility of the features are effective and this solution functionalities on data migration and processing of different from other packages is amazing. NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is the most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data and the capacity planning tools and even the configuration options are the best and easy to use.
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Pros
  • Protective multiple project and business data is excellent.
  • Solutions for data storage and data migration.
  • Providing useful and quality data reports is effective.
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Cons
  • As always, Netapp upgrades are really painful. I wish there was an easy way of upgrading Netapp.
  • GUI is hard to use and CLI is even worse. GUI is confusing and you click all over the place before you get over the learning curve. CLI has changed from the 7-mode days and is very confusing to use. I have had scenarios where the support themselves use documentation to put in the proper commands.
  • Like any array, Netapp's CDOT has it's own bugs in the software. We learnt the hard way when one of our nodes went down and a bug prevented take over of SCSI services which resulted in an APD situation on all our ESXI hosts. Was a nightmare rebooting all the VM's and ESXI's to relieve them of the APD's. People don't pay millions towards a storage platform to go through nightmares.
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Usability
Our organizations primary storage platform is NetApp AFF-A900 nodes. All our storage requirements, be it storage visible to our compute either using FC or NFS is through these nodes. The shares or CIFS too are setup on these nodes. We also use the fabric pool to write the data to NetApps Storage Grid
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Alternatives Considered
The IBM All Flash FAS was similar in performance and price, but we were already a NetApp shop. This made the decision easier to go with the NetApp AFF system so it would tie in with our SnapManager architecture, as well as keep the learning curve short.
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Return on Investment
  • Epic, our EMR providor, has very aggressive guidelines for performance. The Netapp AFF meets those guidlines easily eben in a mixed workload environment. This has helped us meet our business objectives by not having to diversify our storage platforms or vendors.
  • Multi-protocol support (block (ISCSI/FiberChannel) or File (NFS/CIFS)) Allows us to use the Netapp systems to solve all storage requirements regardless of the system needing storage
  • Clustered technologies along with non-disruptive movement of data between nodes on the cluster make hardware refreshes simple and allows the business to keep running without interruption even during massive data moves.
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