NetApp AFF C80 All Flash Storage Solution with USB Interface in Stock

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Netapp AFF C80 Overview
Netapp AFF C80 Hardware

Netapp AFF C80

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.

C Series is ideal for:

  • Transitioning from hybrid/HDD to all-flash storage
  • Running database applications and file environments based on virtualization platforms
  • Secondary storage targets for disaster recovery, backup, and tiering

Sustainable

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.

Scalable

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.

Security

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.

Key Advantages of Netapp AFF C80

Capacity Scaling

Unlock Unprecedented Unified Capacity

  • Achieve non-disruptive growth and adaptability by seamlessly scaling your storage infrastructure from 122 TB to over 700 PB of effective capacity.
  • Enjoy comprehensive data management for consolidated workloads, including replication, data tiering, and adaptive QoS.
  • Simplify and automate hybrid multi-cloud operations with built-in AIOps and intuitive controls powered by BlueXP.
Efficiency & Footprint

Maximize Storage Density & Efficiency

  • Reduce your datacenter footprint with ultra-dense drives and best-in-class data reduction.
  • Improve performance and significantly reduce energy consumption and environmental impact by modernizing to all-flash.
  • Save up to 70% on storage costs by automatically tiering data to the cloud.
  • Manage, protect, and move data across hybrid clouds with a single storage OS.
Ransomware Detection

Real-Time Ransomware Detection

  • Protect your data from cyber threats with built-in AI/ML-based ransomware detection, SIEM/XDR integration, and guaranteed recovery.
  • Maintain business continuity and accelerate disaster recovery with integrated solutions to minimize disruptions.
  • Store top-secret data with the only NSA CSFC-validated enterprise-grade storage, providing compliance for sensitive data.
Netapp Hardware Details

Maximize density and efficiency

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.

Unified storage operating system powered by ONTAP

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. Clouds. 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. The foundation of structure can provide power for data and promote innovation.

Consolidate workloads and expand capacity non-disruptively

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:

  • Consolidate workloads on AFF C-Series systems and protect SLAs in multi-workload and multi-tenant environments with built-in adaptive Quality of Service (QoS).
  • Manage massively scalable NAS containers with up to 20 PB of capacity and 400 billion files through a single namespace.

Tier cold data to the cloud to save more storage and energy

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.

Keep critical data safe, available and protected

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:

  • Powerful protection with multi-factor authentication, tamper-proof NetApp Snapshot™ copies, end-to-end encryption, and automatic blocking of malicious file types.
  • Real-time autonomous ransomware detection, enhanced by embedded machine learning (ML) models, designed for an industry-first 99%+ accuracy.
  • SIEM/XDR integration capabilities.
  • Integrated active-active business continuity features.
  • Network storage capabilities that combine advanced encryption, tamper-proof backup, and isolated storage.
  • Application-consistent data protection and clone management with NetApp SnapCenter® licensing.
  • Replicate to any NetApp AFF or FAS system, on-premises or in the cloud, using NetApp SnapMirror® technology.
AFF C-Series Chassis Spec

Technical Specifications

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
AFF C-Series Deployment

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q1 What applications and environments are NetApp AFF C-Series storage systems ideal for?
The AFF C-Series is ideal for transitioning workloads from hybrid/HDD systems to all-flash storage. It is optimized for running database applications and file environments based on virtualization platforms, as well as serving as secondary storage targets for disaster recovery, backup, and tiering.
Q2 How does the AFF C-Series improve data center efficiency and reduce costs?
It uses next-generation ultra-dense flash drives combined with built-in deduplication and data compression, saving up to 95% of rack space and 85% of power and cooling costs compared to hybrid storage. Additionally, it offers up to 70% storage cost savings by automatically tiering cold data to cloud environments.
Q3 What are the maximum scalability options for the Netapp AFF C80?
The system supports scale-out configurations ranging from 2 to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) with a maximum capacity of 2880 SSDs, enabling you to scale effective capacity seamlessly from 122 TB up to 707.3 PB.
Q4 What built-in security features does the system offer against ransomware?
NetApp AFF C-Series features built-in AI/ML-based real-time autonomous ransomware detection with over 99% accuracy. It includes multi-factor authentication, tamper-proof Snapshot™ copies, end-to-end encryption, and SIEM/XDR integration to ensure robust cyber defense.
Q5 What protocols and storage network technologies are supported by the AFF C80?
The system supports a broad set of unified storage network protocols, including NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC (Fiber Channel), iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS, SMB, and S3 object storage.
Q6 What role does NetApp ONTAP play in this storage system?
ONTAP is the unified storage operating system that runs across block, file, and object workloads. It eliminates infrastructure silos, enables consistent data services across hybrid multi-cloud platforms, and supports automated data management tools like BlueXP.

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