NetApp AFF C250 SAN/NAS Storage System

Leading the way to a cloud-connected all-flash data center

As quad-level cell (QLC) flash technology matures and becomes more widely available, it is becoming a more affordable and viable option for a wider range of workloads. Organizations are eager to modernize their IT infrastructure from HDD to flash, but don’t want to pay a premium for submillisecond performance for non-mission-critical workloads. Additionally, organizations are increasingly looking for easy ways to connect to the cloud, creating a dynamic hybrid cloud infrastructure that can address their changing IT needs.

NetApp AFF C-Series systems are cloud-connected capacity flash systems powered by ONTAP. They are suited for large-capacity deployment as an affordable way to modernize your data center to all flash and also connect to the cloud. AFF C-Series systems deliver industry-leading efficiency, superior flexibility, and best-in-class data services and cloud integration to help you scale your IT infrastructure, simplify your data management, and reduce storage cost and power consumption.

A cloud-connected capacity flash system powered by ONTAP

All-flash storage systems based on QLC media address this challenge. NetApp® AFF C-Series systems help you move more of your data to flash with the latest QLC flash technology. These systems are suited for large-capacity deployment as an affordable way to modernize your data center to all flash and also connect to the cloud. Powered by NetApp ONTAP® data management software, AFF C-Series systems deliver industry-leading efficiency, superior flexibility, and best-in-class data services and cloud integration to help you scale your IT infrastructure, simplify your data management, and reduce storage cost and power consumption.

AFF C-Series systems enable you to:

• Save big on storage, rack space, and power consumption. AFF C-Series systems are built on high-density NVMe capacity flash technology, making them a great choice for large-capacity deployments with a small storage footprint.
• Scale capacity and performance seamlessly without disruption. AFF C-Series systems are designed to scale seamlessly without disruption, so you can add capacity and performance as needed without impacting your business-critical workloads.
• Keep business-critical data available, protected, and secure. AFF C-Series systems include a suite of data protection features, such as NetApp Snapshot™ copies, NetApp SnapMirror® replication, and NetApp MetroCluster® active/active synchronous replication, to help you keep your data safe and accessible.
• Increase efficiency and sustainability. AFF C-Series systems help you improve the efficiency and sustainability of your IT operations by reducing data center costs and energy consumption.

Key benefits of NetApp AFF C-Series systems

• Reduce TCO and energy costs while simplifying operations:
  • Save up to 95% of rack space and up to 85% of power and cooling cost over hybrid flash storage.
  • Reduce cost with guaranteed storage efficiency.
  • Realize even greater savings by tiering cold data to the cloud easily.
• Scale capacity and performance painlessly as your data grows:
  • Expand capacity with nondisruptive scaling in a cluster without silos or data migration.
  • Manage data with the ultimate flexibility of unified support across different storage media and protocols, on premises or in the cloud.
  • Scale performance with technology innovations of NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP connectivity.
• Keep important data secure, available, and protected:
  • Safeguard your data with best-in-class data security and ransomware protection.
  • Simplify backup and recovery with built-in application-consistent data protection.
  • Achieve business continuity and fast disaster recovery with zero data loss and zero downtime.

Increase efficiency and sustainability

Organizations are striving to make their ITOps more cost-efficient and energy-efficient while also meeting their performance and capacity requirements. AFF C-Series systems help our customers achieve these goals by reducing data center costs with a more sustainable and more efficient solution than hybrid flash and HDD systems.

Save big on storage footprint and energy costs

AFF C-Series systems are built on high-density NVMe capacity flash technology. They’re a great choice for large-capacity deployments with a small storage footprint-including data lakes, backup consolidation, media and rendering, AI/ML, and analytics. With AFF C-Series systems, you can reduce up to 95% of rack space and save up to 85% of energy cost over hybrid flash storage, as shown in Figure 1. This allows you to cut down your energy consumption and improve sustainability significantly.

Achieve industry-leading storage savings

NetApp employs various capabilities to promote optimal capacity savings and to reduce your TCO. By supporting SSDs with multistream write technology, and using advanced SSD partitioning, AFF systems provides maximum usable capacity. Thin provisioning; NetApp Snapshot™ copies; inline data reduction features, such as deduplication, compression, compaction, and NetApp’s temperature-sensitive storage efficiency technology save even more space, enabling you to purchase the least amount of storage capacity possible.

Product Type: SAN/NAS Storage System
Storage
Number of Solid State Drive Supported: 24
Number of Solid State Drive Installed: 0
Network & Communication
Ethernet Technology:

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

I/O Expansions
Number of Total Expansion Bays: 24
Number of Total Expansion Slots: 4
Interfaces/Ports
Network (RJ-45): Yes
Number of Network (RJ-45) Ports: 4
Fibre Channel: Yes
Management & Protocols
Protocols:

• TCP
• iSCSI
• NFS
• pNFS
• CIFS/SMB

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