AFF A-Series
AFF A-Series arrays: Cloud-integrated, primed to perform
Need a little (or a lot) more performance for your critical business applications? Our AFF A-Series arrays deliver the award-winning speed and responsiveness your performance-sapping workloads demand.
ONTAP data management software, the power behind AFF A-Series
Unify your data. Simplify your hybrid cloud. Reduce costs. That’s the power of NetApp® ONTAP® software. Designed to give AFF A-Series arrays every advantage possible in the data center and when connected to the cloud. You just won the data management lottery.
Data Access Protocols - FC, iSCSI, NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, FCoE, NFS, SMB, Amazon S3
High Availability - Active-active and symmetric active-active (SAN-only) host connectivity
- Nondisruptive maintenance, upgrade and scale-out clustering
- Multi-site resiliency for continuous data access
Storage Efficiency - Inline data compression, deduplication and compaction
- Space-efficient LUN, file and volume cloning
- Automatic data tiering
Data Management - Intuitive onboard GUI, REST APIs and automation integration
- AI-informed predictive analytics and corrective action
- Quality of Service (QoS) workload control
- Easily provision and manage data from market-leading host operating systems, hypervisors and application software
Scalable NAS - Large-scale single namespace management with local and remote caching
Data Protection - Application-consistent Snapshot® copies and restore
- Integrated remote backup/disaster recovery
- Synchronous zero data loss replication
Security and Compliance - Automatic ransomeware protection
- Multifactor admin access
- Secure multitenant shared storage
- In-flight and data at-rest encryption
- Regulatory compliant data retention
Cloud Integration - Seamlessly tier, backup, replicate, cache data to private and public clouds
- Move data between major public cloud services
AFF A900[1] AFF A800 AFF A400 AFF A250 Best for Performance-driven workloads and mission-critical applications requiring high resiliency Most demanding workloads requiring ultra-low latency Most enterprise applications that require best balance of performance and cost Mid-size business and small enterprises that require simplicity and best value Maximum scale-out 24 nodes 24 nodes 24 nodes 24 nodes Maximum SSD 5760 2880 5760 576 Max Effective Capacity[2] 702.7PB 316.3PB 702.7PB 35.2PB Controller Chassis Form Factor 8U 4U; 48 internal SSD slots 4U 2U; 24 internal SSD slots
