NetApp AFF 900 SAN/NAS Storage System

NetApp AFF A900: The superhero in your data center

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.

AFF A900: The answer to mission-critical applications

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 security

Built 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.

AFF A900 Benefits

• Accelerated enterprise databases and applications
• • Maintain business-critical applications at peak performance with up to 2.4M IOPS per system and latency as low as 100µs.
  • Boost SAN deployments with first-to-market enterprise-grade NVMe/TCP (in addition to NVMe/FC), which can be easily deployed without new hardware investments.
  • Increase performance by 50% with a non-disruptive upgrade path from its predecessor, the AFF A700.

• Highly available and secure data
  • Protect data with best-in-class data security and cutting-edge anti-ransomware for pre-emption and post-attack recovery.
  • Reduce support costs and eliminate disruptions with high reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS).
  • Defend against data loss with integrated backup and disaster recovery.

• Simplified data management
  • Maximize cloud flexibility with unified and single ONTAP data management software for data on-premises or in the cloud.
  • Scale and grow with unified protocol support for SAN, NAS, and Object.
  • Optimize system health with AI-based predictive analytics delivered by Active IQ and Cloud Insight.

Memory
Standard Memory: 256 GB
Network & Communication
Ethernet Technology:

• 100 Gigabit Ethernet
• 25 Gigabit Ethernet
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet

I/O Expansions
Number of Total Expansion Slots: 10
Controllers
Number of Controllers: 2
Controller Type:

• 12Gb/s SAS
• 6Gb/s SAS

RAID Supported: Yes
Interfaces/Ports
Number of SAS Ports (External): 32
Network (RJ-45): Yes
Number of Network (RJ-45) Ports: 64
Fibre Channel: Yes
Software
Operating System: Data ONTAP 9.7
Management & Protocols
Protocols:

• TCP
• iSCSI
• NFS
• pNFS
• CIFS/SMB

Physical Characteristics
Form Factor: Rack-mountable
Rack Height: 8U
Warranty
Limited Warranty: 3 Year