AFF A800

AFF A800 Positioning and Benefits

The NetApp AFF A800 is positioned for the enterprise segment with the highest demands for performance and data access in SAN/NAS environments. The AFF A800 provides the highest density of information on the drives – the maximum supported capacity of an individual SSD drive is 15.3 TB. It also offers the highest fault tolerance and performance in its class.

Other important features of the AFF A800 include:

• A single HA-pair delivers 1.3 million IOPS of random read IOPS (input/output operations per second) with a latency of only 500 µs (microseconds).
• Under full system load, it operates with a minimum latency of 200 µs.
• Delivers 34 GB/sec read speeds per HA-pair (at NVMe-over-FC).
• Provides 25 GB/sec read speed per 2 controllers (with NFS).
• Enables 11.4 M (million) IOPS on a cluster of 24 nodes in the NAS variant.
• Has a maximum read data rate of 300 GB/sec on a 24-node cluster using NAS.

ONTAP System Manager embedded software

The AFF A800 system is provided to the user with the ONTAP System Manager software installed for basic tasks and tools:

• SyncMirror – allows replication by mirroring at the RAID level.
• Snapshot – snapshot creation of file system snapshots.
• SnapMirror – provides automatic synchronous or asynchronous replication.
• Thin provisioning – A technique for allocating storage space not immediately when the disk is created, but as the application data needs it.
• FlexClone – instant creation of virtual database backups without the use of virtual machines.
• MultiStore – virtualization for more comfortable work with the storage system. Standard Data ONTAP – provides data compression and deduplication.