NetApp AFF A-Series Pricing, Features & Reviews
What is NetApp AFF A-Series?
NetApp AFF A-Series Arrays are smart, powerful, and dependable options that use current cloud technologies to deliver the right amount of speed, efficiency, and data security. NetApp AFF A-Series offers the greatest performance, flexibility, data services and cloud integration in the market, allowing customers to accelerate, manage, and secure business-critical data in the hybrid cloud.
NetApp AFF A-Series Arrays are used by a wide spectrum of organisations, helping them to:
- Simplify operations with seamless data management
- Improve the performance of both classic and next-generation applications.
- Ensure that mission-critical data are accessible and secure.
Users can also utilise NetApp AFF A-Series Arrays to transfer data between essential public cloud services. It also helps back up, tier, cache and replicate data to public and private clouds.
Technical Specifications of NetApp AFF A-Series Arrays
Features | AFF A800 | AFF A700 | AFF A400 | AFF A250 |
Maximum scale-out | 2-23 nodes (12 HA Pairs) | 2-24 nodes (12 HA Pairs) | 2-24 nodes (12 HA Pairs) | 2-24 nodes (12 HA Pairs) |
Maximum SSDs | 2880 | 5760 | 5760 | 576 |
Controller form factor | 4U with 48 SSD slots | 8U | 4U | 2U |
12Gb/6Gb SAS Ports | N/A | 64 | 32 | 8 |
Storage networking supported | NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, Amazon S3 | NVMe/FC, FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, SMB, Amazon S3 | NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, Amazon S3 | NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, Amazon S3 |
Shelves and media | NS224 (24 drives, 2U, SFF 2.5’’ NVMe); DS2246 (24 drives, 2U SFF 2.5”); DS224C (24 drives, 2U SFF 2.5”); | NS224 (24 drives, 2U SFF NVMe2.5”); DS2246 (24 drives, 2U SFF 2.5”); DS224C (24 drives, 2U SFF 2.5”); | NS224 (24 drives, 2U SFF 2.5” NVMe); DS224C (24 drives, 2U SFF 2.5”), DS2246 (24 drives, 2U SFF 2.5”) | NS224 (24 drives, 2U SFF 2.5” NVMe); DS2246 (24 drives, 2U SFF 2.5”); DS224C (24 drives, 2U SFF 2.5”); |
Host/client OS supported: | Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012, Oracle Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, VMware, ESX, MacOS |
Pricing of NetApp AFF A-Series
NetApp AFF A-Series price is available on request. Interested buyers can generate a callback request to connect with product experts.
NetApp AFF A-Series software Specifications
Storage efficiency | - Deduplication, compaction and inline data compression
- Volume cloning, Space-efficient LUN, and file
- Automatic data tiering
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Data Access protocols | NFS, SMB, FC, iSCSI, NVMe/FC, FCoE, Amazon S3 |
Data management | - Intuitive onboard GUI, automation, and REST APIs integration.
- Predictive analytics and remedial action (AI informed)
- Data from market-leading host operating systems, hypervisors and application software may be easily provisioned and managed.
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Scalable NAS | Management of a single namespace at a large scale, using local and remote caching |
Data protection | - Synchronous replication with no data loss
- Disaster restoration and integrated remote backup
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Security and compliance | - Secure multi-tenant shared storage
- Multifactor admin access
- Data Encryption (in flight and at rest)
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