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.
Data-driven enterprises need a smart and efficient hybrid IT infrastructure to meet the requirements of fast, secure, full and continuous access to distributed data in hybrid cloud. NetApp's intelligent data infrastructure can provide the richest data service suite and support group in the industry across mixed clouds. Teams seamlessly use the required services internally or in the cloud. NetApp technologies, including AFF A series, rely on unified data storage. Enterprises can run any data type on-premises and in the cloud through one operating system, ONTAP. And any application workload. A unified management experience can provide ease of use and effectiveness, eliminate infrastructure silos and data bottlenecks, and provide unparalleled large-scale precision.
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:
• Accelerate and consolidate every task with unparalleled performance, efficiency and scalability. Speed of load (VMware, database, AI, etc.)
• Drive transformation with a future-proof intelligent data infrastructure that manage, protect and move data seamlessly across the hybrid cloud.
• Through real-time ransomware detection, guaranteed recovery and business continuity, protection industry mission-critical data is protected from internal and external threats.
| Maximum scale-out | 2 to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Maximum number of SSDs | 2880 |
| Maximum effective capacity | 185PB |
| Controller chassis appearance Specifications | 4U; 48 internal SSD slots |
| Power consumption (median) | 1950W |
| Number of PCIe expansion slots | 18 |
| FC target port (64 GB auto-sensing) | 56 |
| FC target port (32 Gb auto-sensing) | 56 |
| FC target port (16 Gb auto-sensing) | 56 |
| 200 GbE ports (100GbE/40GbE auto-sensing) | 24 |
| 100GbE port (40GbE auto-sensing) | 36 |
| 25GbE port (10GbE auto-sensing) | 56 |
| 10Gbase-T (1GbE adaptive) | 56 |
| Operating system version | ONTAP 9.15.1 or later |
| Supported host/client operating systems | Windows Server, Linux, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, macOS, VMware, ESX |