| model | AFF A20 |
| Maximum scale-out | 2 to 6 nodes (3 HA pairs) |
| Maximum number of SSDs | 144 |
| Maximum effective capacity | 9.3PB |
| Controller chassis appearance Specifications | 2U; 24 internal SSD slots |
| Power consumption (median) | 683 |
| Number of PCIe expansion slots | 8 |
| FC target port (64 GB auto-sensing) | 24 |
| FC target port (32 GB auto-sensing) | 24 |
| FC target port (16 GB auto-sensing) | 14 |
| 100GbE port (40GbE auto-sensing) | 16 |
| 25GbE port (10GbE auto-sensing) | 32 |
| 10Gbase-T (1GbE adaptive) | 24 |
NetApp AFF A series systems can easily power the most demanding workloads. Force support, from the current mission-critical applications running business to the future will release innovation. AI and GenAI workloads with new potential and productivity. With GenAI and other present Advanced data management, industry-leading ransomware prevention and cloud for workloads. Integrated, only NetApp provides truly unified storage purpose-built for the next generation. The AFF A series storage series is supported by NetApp ONTAP data management software, its simplicity and reliability of NetApp have been rejected by thousands of companies from all walks of life around the world. Organizations of the same size have been consistently trusted for many years. This is the same as the top three public clouds in the hybrid cloud. All applications and data are driven by the same technology. There are no more islands, there is no storage complexity. Powerful, intelligent and secure storage, which can help you seamlessly accelerate business development.
Transform to meet today's business needs
Data-driven enterprises require an agile and efficient hybrid IT infrastructure to meet the demands for fast, secure, and continuous access to distributed data across hybrid clouds. NetApp's intelligent data infrastructure delivers the industry's richest suite of data services across hybrid multicloud, enabling teams to seamlessly consume the services they need, on-premises or in the cloud. NetApp technology, including the AFF A-Series, is based on unified data storage, enabling enterprises to run any data type and any application workload on-premises and in the cloud with one operating system, ONTAP. The unified management experience delivers ease of use and efficiency, eliminates infrastructure silos and data bottlenecks, and provides unmatched simplicity at scale.
Emerging workloads such as AI and GenAI, data analysis and deep learning require extremes. Yes. AFF A series systems provide industry-leading speed, large-scale scalability and Best-in-class integration with public cloud, NVIDIA and MLOps ecosystems can help you accelerate, manage and protect next-generation applications across the hybrid cloud.
Enterprises of all walks of life and all sizes rely on the AFF system to achieve the following goals: