NetApp FAS2720 SAN/NAS Storage System

FAS2720: A Powerful and Scalable Storage Solution for Enterprise Environments

The FAS2720 is a high-performance storage system designed for enterprise environments that require a balance of capacity, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. It offers a maximum raw capacity of up to 17PB, making it ideal for storing and managing large data volumes. The system can be scaled up to 24 nodes and supports a variety of storage protocols, including FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, and Amazon S3. This flexibility allows the FAS2720 to adapt to the changing needs of businesses of all sizes.

Key Features:

• High Capacity: Up to 17PB raw capacity per cluster
• Scalability: Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) for NAS scale-out and up to 12 nodes (6 HA pairs) for SAN scale-out
• Flexible Storage Protocols: Supports FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, and Amazon S3
• Reliable HA Pair Configuration: Ensures continuous operation in case of hardware failure
• Advanced ONTAP Operating System: Provides comprehensive data management and protection features

Target Applications:

• File Storage: Store and share files for departments or workgroups
• Application Storage: Host applications such as Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint
• Backup and Disaster Recovery: Protect data from loss and ensure business continuity
• Virtualization Storage: Support virtualized environments such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V

Form Factor and OS Version:

• Controller Chassis Form Factor: 2U/12 internal drives
• Operating System Version: ONTAP 9.4 RC1and later

NetApp FAS2700 Series Hybrid-Flash Arrays | Simple. Smart. Trusted.

The Challenge | Simplifying data management across flash, disk, and cloud

Organizations of all sizes are increasingly challenged with streamlining their storage operations. Their staff is overstretched from managing all their business applications, and they need to store and back up their ever-growing volume of data while budgets are shrinking. Plus, they need to integrate cloud and flash into their storage infrastructure.

The Solution | Hybrid-flash storage that simplifies your operations with best-in-class data management

The NetApp® FAS2700 family is optimized for midsize and small enterprises that require cost-effective deployment and easy operations while also having the flexibility to handle future growth and cloud integration. Running NetApp ONTAP® storage software, the FAS2700 enables you to efficiently manage your data and consolidate a broad range of workloads with its unified support for SAN and NAS. Its many capabilities make it an ideal solution for your general-purpose business applications as well as backup and retention.

You don’t need to be a storage expert to deploy and manage NetApp storage systems. The FAS2700 enables you to build a storage infrastructure that is simple, smart, and trusted.

Simple

• Free up your time, money and people.
• Go from initial power-on to serving data in less than 10 minutes with simple application provisioning.
• Increase the efficiency of your staff with deep integration with key business applications
• Simplify ongoing management by upgrading software or servicing storage with zero downtime during regular business hours.
• Simplify on-going management by upgrading software or servicing storage with zero downtime during regular business hours.
• Minimize your storage footprint and increase system utilization with proven storage efficiencies.

Smart

Flexibly adapt to your ever-changing business needs.

• Start small. Scale capacity and performance as your data requirements grow.
• Eliminate silos by supporting both NAS and SAN workloads on one unified system.
• Connect easily to the cloud with industry-leading integration.
• Optimize your NetApp systems with the predictive analytics and proactive support of NetApp Active IQ®.

Trusted

Safeguard your data across the hybrid cloud.

• Protect against data loss and accelerate recovery with integrated data protection.
• Secure your environment with the leading portfolio of security capabilities, including data-at-rest encryption, multifactor authentication, and cryptographic shredding.

Product Type: SAN/NAS Storage System
Storage
Number of Hard Drives Supported: 12
Number of Hard Drives Installed: 0
Number of Solid State Drive Supported: 12
Number of Solid State Drive Installed: 0
I/O Expansions
Number of Total Expansion Bays: 12
Number of 3.5″ Bays: 12
Software
Operating System: Data ONTAP 9.4
Management & Protocols
Protocols:

• FCoE
• iSCSI
• NFS
• pNFS
• CIFS/SMB

Physical Characteristics
Form Factor: Rack-mountable
Rack Height: 2U
Warranty
Limited Warranty: 3 Year