NetApp AFF A400 Overview
One system, all your workloads
All the versatility you need no matter what types of workloads you are running: on premises or in the cloud, scale up or scale out, SAN or NAS.
AFF A400: speed, efficiency and versatility
Designed for enterprises that run all types of workloads in both SAN and NAS environments, the AFF A400 meets and exceeds all the demands with a breeze, be it online transaction processing, virtualization, or file sharing. Running as fast as a high-end system that fits into a mid-range budget,
it also stands out for its "NetApp signature" cloud integration, which enables easy cloud backup, tiering, caching and more, all built-in with the amazing ONTAP data management software.
Data acceleration technology meets rich data management
Built on the cutting-edge end-to-end NVMe technology, the AFF A400 takes performance and efficiency one step further with a unique hardware acceleration technology. Powered by ONTAP data management software, it has all the built-in data protection and data security you need for the hybrid cloud.
| 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 | 4U |
| PCIe expansion slots | 10 |
| FC target ports (32Gb autoranging) | 24 |
| FC target ports (16Gb autoranging) | 32 (with FC mezzanine card) |
| FCoE target ports, UTA2 | n/a |
| 100GbE ports (40GbE autoranging) | 16 |
| 25GbE ports (10GbE autoranging) | 16 |
| 10GbE ports | 32 |
| 10Gbase-T (1GbE autoranging) | 16 |
| 12Gb/6Gb SAS ports | 32 |
| Storage networking supported | NFSv4/RDMA, NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, Amazon S3 |
| OS version | ONTAP 9.7 RC1 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) | 890W (with DS224C) 1240W (with NS224) |
AFF A400 benefits
Simplify data management on-prem and in the cloud
Set up, provision and manage storage easily with ONTAP System Manager
Built-in cloud integration with automatic cloud tiering, back-up and caching, whenever you need it
Consolidate your workloads to smaller footprint, lower power cost and easier management
Accelerate all your workloads
Speed up your workloads with the newest NVMe/TCP and NVMe/FC technologies
Data acceleration technology provides further boost to your more demanding applications
Scale performance and capacity, and future-proof your investment with non-disruptive scale-out
Protect—keep your data secure and available
Meet the strictest SLAs with integrated and application-consistent data protection.
Maintain data availability at all time with zero data loss and zero downtime.
Safeguard your data from ransomware attacks and secure them in transit and at rest with encryption.
