Hi Everyone,
We are a long time NetApp shop here. We started with the 540 and have upgraded multiple times and are now at FAS940's. The time has come for us to upgrade again.
We have been extremely happy with NetApp. The reliability, uptime, support, features, etc. have spoiled us for years.
What I want to ask the community now is: has anyone else appeared on the stage that you are as happy with ? There are a lot of products that claim to have snapshots, NFS/CIFS, etc. But how reliable are they ?
Has anyone that has been really happy with NetApps moved to any of the newer players and been as happy ? My motivation looking elsewhere is, of course, price. I admit, I have been slightly bitten by the cheap SATA file servers bug. Our current config is with all FC drives, but if you have enough disks, SATA seems to be close to the performance.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what NetApp's real competitors are ? Anyone have any stories to share with me about trying someone else (cheaper) ?
Thanks,
Paul Letta