NetApp AFF A900 High-end NVMe flash storage Overview: Powerful, resilient, and secure, the AFF A900 high-end NVMe flash storage in the AFF A-series family has all that you need to fuel your mission-critical enterprise applications and keep your data available and secure at all time. Built for large enterprises and cloud service providers where speed, dependability, and security are imperative, the AFF A900 delivers unparalleled performance and resiliency for the most demanding enterprise applications and databases. And with the cutting-edge anti-ransomware security in the ONTAP data management software, you can rest assured that your data is safe from potentially catastrophic ransomware attacks. Unravelled performance, resiliency and securityBuilt upon a high-resiliency modular architecture, the AFF A900 delivers leading reliability, availability and serviceability for the most critical business applications. With multi-protocol support, including NVMe/TCP and NVMe/FC, the AFF A900 offers unparalleled performance. Combined with the ONTAP Enterprise Edition software, the AFF A900 system delivers a premium data management solution with built-in data protection and security, while providing maximum flexibility and simplicity. NetApp AFF A-SeriesData-driven organizations require an agile and efficient IT infrastructure to meet the demand for fast, secure, and continuous data access. A fundamental first step in undertaking an IT transformation is to modernize your infrastructure with all-flash storage to improve speed and responsiveness for critical business applications. New workloads, such as data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and deep learning (DL), demand extreme performance that first-generation flash systems can't deliver. Additionally, more and more organizations are adopting a “cloud first” strategy, which means they need enterprise-grade data services for a shared environment across on-premises data centers and the cloud. As a result, modern all-flash arrays must provide robust data services, integrated data protection, seamless scalability, and new levels of performance— plus deep application and cloud integration. | Per-cluster specifications | | Maximum scale-out | 2–24 nodes (12 HA pairs) | | Maximum SSDs | 5,760 | | Maximum effective capacity | 702.7PB |
| Per-system specifications (active-active dual controller) | | Controller form factor | 8U | | PCIe expansion slots | 20 | | FC target ports (32Gb autoranging) | 64 | | FC target ports (16Gb autoranging) | 64 | | FCoE target ports, UTA2 | 64 | | 100GbE ports (40GbE autoranging) | 32 | | 25GbE ports (10GbE autoranging) | 64 | | 10GbE ports | 64 | | 10Gbase-T (1GbE autoranging) | 64 | | 12Gb/6Gb SAS ports | 64 | | Storage networking supported | NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, Amazon S3 | | OS version | ONTAP 9.10.1 RC2 or later | | Shelves and media | NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24 drives, 2.5" SFF); DS2246 (2U, 24 drives, 2.5", SFF) | | Host/client OS supported | Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Linux, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, macOS, VMware, ESX | Power Consumption (Median)
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