Qumulo

What do you like best?

Having worked with other storage platforms for number of years, Qumulo is a breath of fresh air, it is is simple to deploy and simple to manage. The UI is simple and straightforward to use and the documentation takes you through every thing you need to do, step by step. From receiving the equipment on site, deploying, migrating 200TB of data and bringing the system into production, all of it was completed in days.

The best feature is being able to see where your data is, how big it is and how its grown, it allows me to provide valuable insights to the business.

Their support is via Slack, has been a very good experience with a quick and helpful response.

What do you dislike?

So far after 4 months I haven't found anything to dislike

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Make sure you understand your performance requirements

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We used Qumulo to consolidate 4 separate file systems to one and to provide disaster recovery and business continuity by replicating data to a remote Qumulo system.

The benefits were:

Reduced Power consumption and cooling requirements

Reduces space needs (8U vs 36U)

Simplified admin

Greater performance, single tier, so no need to move files around

Overall reduced TCO