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VAST Data vs Netapp [Comparing Technical Capabilities]

August 12, 2021

This is a comparison snapshot from A Buyer’s Guide to Modern Storage, by WEKA.

Download the full guide here and learn about, why legacy storage vendors are ineffective for modern data storage requirements, key Considerations for choosing modern storage, and comparison of NetApp, Isilon, Vast Data, DDN Lustre, and WEKA

	Criteria/Capabilities	VAST Data	Netapp
DEPLOYMENT MODELS	On-premises	Yes	Yes
	Cloud	No	Yes
	Converged	No	Yes
ADMINISTRATION	GUI, CLI, API	Yes	Yes
DATA TYPES	File, Object	Yes	Yes
MIXED WORKLOADS	Efficiently perform large and small IOPS on the same filesystem*	Read-Only	No
CLOUD BURSTING	Natively moving data to the cloud**	No	Yes
CLOUD EXTENSIBILITY	Runs in the cloud same as on-premises. (deployment, management and functionality)	No	Yes
	Ability to extend namespaces to Object Storage	No	No
MULTIPROTOCOL SUPPORT	POSIX, NFS, SMB S3	No	No
CONTAINER SUPPORT	Works with CSI interface	Yes	Yes
SECURITY	End-to-end encryption (in-flight and at rest)	No	No
	Multi-tenancy (Ability to create multiple and separate namespaces with separated management capabilities)	No	Yes
	Support for ACLs	Yes	Yes
HARDWARE	Running on off the shelf servers	No	No
	Agnostic (Not tied to a specific hardware vendor)	No	No
SCALING LIMITS	1000’s of storage servers	No	No
	1000’s of compute servers	Yes	Yes
	Scale capacity and performance independently	Yes	Yes
	Integrate different tiers such as flash and HDD	No	Yes

^*Same file system can accommodate maximum throughput and IOPS without a configuration requirement
^**Ability to move data between different on-premises and public cloud environments without the need of 3rd party data mover applications or back-up applications.

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