NetApp AFF A-Series

Description

Data-driven organizations require an agile and efficient IT infrastructure to meet the demand for fast, secure, and continuous data access. A fundamental first step in undertaking an IT transformation is to modernize your infrastructure with all-flash storage to improve speed and responsiveness for critical business applications. New workloads, such as data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and deep learning (DL), demand extreme performance that first-generation flash systems can't deliver. Additionally, more and more organizations are adopting a “cloud first” strategy, which means they need enterprise-grade data services for a shared environment across on-premises data centers and the cloud. As a result, modern all-flash arrays must provide robust data services, integrated data protection, seamless scalability, and new levels of performance plus deep application and cloud integration.

Accelerate applications

  • Speed up your critical applications with lightning- fast end-to-end NVMe enterprise all-flash array.
  • Run artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with lowest latency.
  • Support twice as many workloads and cut application response time in half with a modern NVMe-based SAN infrastructure.

Reduce data center costs

  • Minimize your data center footprint by storing up to 2PB of data in a 4U compact system.
  • Save SSD storage by 5 to 10 times with inline data reduction technologies.
  • Reduce power and cooling, rack space, and support costs dramatically.

Simplify IT operations

  • Unify data services across SAN and NAS environments, both on the premises and in the cloud.
  • Set up and configure a complete system and serve data within 10 minutes.
  • Safeguard your data with best-in-class integrated data protection and seamless cloud backup and recovery.

 

AFF A900

AFF A800

AFF A400

AFF A250

Maximum scale-out

2–24 nodes (12 HA pairs)

2–24 nodes (12 HA pairs)

2–24 nodes (12 HA pairs)

2–24 nodes (12 HA pairs)

Maximum SSDs

5,760

2,880

5,760

576

Maximum effective capacity1

702.7PB

316.3PB

702.7PB

35PB

Per-system specifications (active-active dual controller)

 

AFF A900

AFF A800

AFF A400

AFF A250

Controller form factor

8U

4U with 48 SSD slots

4U

2U

PCIe expansion slots

20

8

10

4

FC target ports (32Gb autoranging)

64

32

24

16

FC target ports (16Gb autoranging)

64

32

32 (with FC mezzanine card)

n/a

FCoE target ports, UTA2

64

n/a

n/a

n/a

100GbE ports (40GbE autoranging)

32

20

16

42

25GbE ports (10GbE autoranging)

64

16

16

20

10GbE ports

64

32

32

n/a

10Gbase-T (1GbE autoranging)

64

n/a

16

4

12Gb/6Gb SAS ports

64

n/a

32

8

Storage networking

NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC,

NFSv4/RDMA, NVMe/TCP,

NFSv4/RDMA, NVMe/TCP,

NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC,

supported

iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB,

NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS,

NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS,

iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB,

 

Amazon S3

CIFS/SMB, Amazon S3

CIFS/SMB, Amazon S3

Amazon S3

OS version

ONTAP 9.10.1 RC2 or later

ONTAP 9.7 RC1 or later

ONTAP 9.7 RC1 or later

ONTAP 9.8 RC1 or later

Shelves and media

NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF

NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF

NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF

NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF

 

NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24 drives,

NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24 drives,

NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24 drives,

NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24 drives,

 

2.5" SFF); DS2246 (2U, 24

2.5" SFF); DS2246 (2U, 24

2.5" SFF); DS2246 (2U, 24

2.5" SFF)

 

drives, 2.5", SFF)

drives, 2.5", SFF)

drives, 2.5", SFF)

 

 

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