AFF C Series storage is a sustainable, scalable, and secure solution for tier 1 and tier 2 applications. It combines the high performance of flash products with large capacity, making it the most affordable all-flash series on the market, and you can now easily enjoy all the advantages.
Reduce TCO and energy costs while simplifying operations. Using next-generation flash can save up to 95% of rack space and 85% of power and cooling costs compared to hybrid storage. Provide 4:1 storage efficiency for SAN workloads and easily tier cold data to the cloud for additional cost savings.
Scale capacity and performance incrementally as your data grows. Expand capacity and eliminate storage silos by non-disruptively scaling out across a cluster. Deploy and move workloads across a variety of protocols (SAN, NAS, and object) and storage media, and across hybrid clouds, on-premises or in the cloud with highly flexible, unified support.
Ensure that important data is safe and available. Defend against threats such as ransomware and get built-in data protection with application consistency. Leading data security features enable excellent business continuity and effectively reduce losses in the event of a disaster.
Ultra-dense capacity flash combined with NetApp deduplication and data compression delivers exceptional storage density without sacrificing performance. The AFF C-Series eliminates inefficient islands of storage, reducing storage sprawl, improving performance, and significantly reducing energy consumption. With a single storage operating system, you can seamlessly manage, protect, and move data across data centers and hybrid cloud environments, simplifying operations and enhancing data management.
As part of our unified data storage portfolio, the AFF C series is developed by NetApp. ONTAP® software provides support, which can provide effective and safe services in different environments. Data management and consistent access to data services. A unified management experience can be achieved. Ease of use and efficiency, eliminating infrastructure silos and data bottlenecks, and providing unparalleled large-scale simplification. ONTAP provides a set of common functions across internal and cloud storage, which can simplify operations and make IT teams can focus on strategic business priorities. It allows you to manage across mixed clouds storage, which covers flash, disk and running block, file and object workloads. You can easily move data within or between storage clusters, and also you can move data to the most useful location in the cloud. ONTAP is an intelligent data infrastructure foundation that can provide power for data and promote innovation.
AFF C-Series systems are built on the non-disruptive cluster scale-out architecture in ONTAP, enabling you to easily scale capacity, eliminating storage silos and painful data migrations. You can also:
With a hybrid cloud IT infrastructure powered by NetApp technology, you can simplify and integrate data management across cloud and on-premises environments to meet business needs and gain a competitive advantage. With the AFF C-Series, you can maximize performance and reduce overall storage costs by up to 70% by automatically tiering cold data to the cloud. This allows you to reserve flash storage for more frequently used data while reducing energy consumption. With NetApp's leading cloud integration, you can also connect to more clouds for more data services such as backup, caching, and disaster recovery. Best of all, you can easily manage all your data, whether it's on-premises or in the cloud, using the BlueXP unified control platform.
For data-driven enterprises, the impact of data loss on business can be significant and costly. Ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, bypassing traditional security. The impact can be severe: data loss, financial extortion and business disruption.
Enterprises must protect their valuable data from ransomware and other external cyberattacks as well as internal threats to keep data available, eliminate disruptions, and quickly recover from failures.
NetApp AFF systems are the only hardened enterprise-class storage validated by the NSA’s CSFC program for storing top-secret data. They offer a comprehensive set of application-consistent integrated data protection, including:
| Maximum scale-out | 2 to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Maximum number of SSDs | 2880 |
| Maximum effective capacity | 707.3PB |
| Controller chassis appearance Specifications | 4U; 48 internal SSD slots |
| Power consumption (median) | 1654W |
| Number of PCIe expansion slots | 18 |
| FC target port (64 GB auto-sensing) | 56 |
| FC target port (32 Gb auto-sensing) | not applicable |
| FC target port (16 Gb auto-sensing) | not applicable |
| 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 |
| Storage network support | NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS, SMB, S3 |
| Operating system version | ONTAP 9.16.1 or later |
| Supported host/client operating systems | Windows Server, Linux, Oracle Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, macOS, VMware ESX |