Netapp FAS 90

Minimize data lifecycle costs in tiering, backup, and network storage workflows with hybrid flash storage using NetApp FAS.

Core Advantages

Economical

• Optimize overall storage costs over the data lifecycle with automated tiers and affordable backup.
• Automatically migrate infrequently used data to cost-effective hybrid flash storage to slash costs.
• Maintain primary storage efficiency and realize additional savings with NetApp FAS data reduction capabilities.

Simplicity

• Flexibly adapt to changing business needs with industry-leading hybrid flash storage.
• Massively simplify by using FAS for backup and/or tiered and/or networked storage on the same NetApp ONTAP operating system.
• Fully consolidate 3-2-1 backup strategies on a cloud-connected storage operating system and seamlessly integrate with backup software.
• Free up primary storage capacity with policy-based data tiers.

Security

• Rely on the world’s most secure storage to safely store your critical backup datasets.
• Protect your data with autonomous ransomware protection and guaranteed ransomware recovery.
• Deploy FAS as a resilient, logically isolated cybervault target.
• Prevent unauthorized data access with immutable NetApp Snapshot copies, lockable data, and role-based access controls.

Detailed Specifications

Economy & Long-term Value

Focusing on simplifying the storage environment and reducing the total cost of ownership is essential. The FAS system offers significant advantages:

• Reduce costs and minimize storage space: Automatically migrate infrequently used data to more cost-effective object storage on-premises or in the cloud without reconstructing applications.
• Eliminate storage silos by supporting NAS, SAN and object workloads on a unified system.
• Fast setup: Through simple application configuration, it takes less than 10 minutes from initial boot to serving data.
• Zero-downtime maintenance: Simplify daily management by upgrading software or maintaining storage during normal working hours with zero disruption.
• Instantly create writable clones using NetApp Snapshot copies for development testing, report generation, and analysis.

Operational Simplicity

The FAS family has the flexibility to meet growing business needs and meet your changing capacity and performance requirements. Scale up by adding disks or upgrading controllers. Scale out by scaling from 2 nodes to a 24-node cluster with 176PB of capacity. In addition, you can combine different FAS and AFF models to build your environment with next-generation storage using the latest technology.

The FAS family also supports large-scale, easy-to-manage NAS containers. With the NetApp FlexGroup feature of ONTAP 9, a namespace can scale to 20 PB and hold 400 billion files while maintaining consistent high performance and resiliency. By adding and replacing storage systems and components nondisruptively, there are no maintenance windows or downtime to coordinate between teams. You can perform updates during normal business hours.

Integration with the Cloud

FAS systems running ONTAP are optimized for private and hybrid clouds by providing secure multi-tenancy, quality of service, non-stop operations, and easily defined service tiers. In addition, NetApp offers multiple options for extending FAS systems to hybrid clouds with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other leading cloud providers.

Easily move data between on-premises FAS systems and cloud environments using NetApp SnapMirror data replication software. Optimize storage with intelligent management. You don't need to be a storage expert to use the broad capabilities of the NetApp storage management portfolio:

• Simplify and accelerate daily management activities with ONTAP System Manager. The intuitive GUI gives you quick insights into capacity, system health, network connectivity, and performance history.
• Simplify management of multiple storage clusters with NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager. Increase staff efficiency by monitoring petabytes of data from a single dashboard, and receive notifications to quickly resolve issues before they impact data services.
• NetApp BlueXP data management simplifies operations by acting as a unified control platform for storage and data services, designed for secondary workloads across internal and cloud environments.

Data Security & Compliance

Protecting customer and company data in hybrid cloud environments is critical. FAS systems support robust security mechanisms:

• ONTAP provides software-based and hardware-based encryption to protect data at rest and in transit.
• With SnapLock, create dedicated volumes to store files in a tamper-proof, non-erasable, non-writable state for a specified retention period or indefinitely.
• Easily and efficiently protect data with autonomous ransomware protection.
• Use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to prevent simple management password compromises.
• Multi-Administrator Authentication (MAV) ensures that critical actions like deleting a volume or Snapshot copy require approval from multiple administrators.
• Meet privacy standards, including GDPR, by cryptographically shredding and sanitizing individual files.

Technical Parameters

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