NetApp AFF A250 Overview
An entry-level all-flash system in the AFF A-series family, the AFF A250 simplifies your data management at an accessible starting price while delivering amazing horse power for all your workloads.
AFF A250: Your new IT specialist
Designed to meet the data management needs for mid-size businesses or remote offices of a large enterprise, the AFF A250 modernizes your data center and accelerates enterprise applications, AI/ML, virtualization, as well as consolidation of different workloads. Plus, it allows you to connect to the cloud without a hitch, whenever you need to.
Smart, powerful and efficient—wrapped in one sleek package
You will be surprised how simple it is to set up the AFF A250. It uses the same set of software tools to manage your data, either on-prem or in the cloud. Better yet, it reduces your storage cost by automatically tiering cold data to the cloud. A powerhouse of its class, the AFF A250 is built on an end-to-end NVMe architecture that delivers a stunning 45% more performance than its predecessor. So you can consolidate a lot of workloads on a single system, simplifying support while eliminating silos.
| Per-cluster specifications |
| Maximum scale-out | 2–24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Maximum SSDs | 576 |
| Maximum effective capacity | 35PB |
| Per-system specifications (active-active dual controller) |
| Controller form factor | 2U |
| PCIe expansion slots | 4 |
| FC target ports (32Gb autoranging) | 16 |
| FC target ports (16Gb autoranging) | n/a |
| FCoE target ports, UTA2 | n/a |
| 100GbE ports (40GbE autoranging) | 4 |
| 25GbE ports (10GbE autoranging) | 20 |
| 10GbE ports | n/a |
| 10Gbase-T (1GbE autoranging) | 4 |
| 12Gb/6Gb SAS ports | 8 |
| Storage networking supported | NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, Amazon S3 |
| OS version | ONTAP 9.8 RC1 or later |
| Shelves and media | NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF NVMe); DS224C (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) | 491W |
AFF A250 benefits
Manage your data across the hybrid cloud effortlessly
Provision storage in minutes and upgrade OS easily with Integrated management tools such as ONTAP System Manager
Automatically tier, backup, and cache your data to the cloud with built-in cloud integration
Get system health checks and one-button remediation with AI-based Actve IQ digital assistant and Cloud Insight.
Accelerate and modernize
Accelerate enterprise apps with the power of modern infrastructure.
Best technology in its class: end-to-end NVMe to future proof your data center
45% higher performance than its predecessor to consolidate more workloads, eliminating silos
Capacity and performance expansion without disruption
Consolidate—transform datacenter economy
Reduce TCO with workload consolidation
2U compact design to reduce footprint especially when replacing HDDs
Leading storage efficiency to reduce storage cost
Mid-range performance at entry-level price points that include flat and predictable support cost
