NetApp FAS9000 SAN/NAS Storage System

NetApp FAS9000 Modular Hybrid Flash System | Quickly respond to demanding storage needs across flash, disk, and cloud with industry-leading data management

The Challenge | Deliver high performance and maximum availability while reducing TCO and eliminating silos

For today’s critical business operations, performance and availability are essential. However, the infrastructure to achieve these goals can introduce a level of complexity that drives up management costs; increases the chance for costly errors; and requires specialized training, skills, and knowledge.

Many enterprises struggle, held back by structural limitations in legacy storage and data architectures. Traditional storage arrays deliver on basic needs but are complex to manage and maintain, adding to total costs. And they can create silos of data across your organization.

The Solution | Maximize storage performance and upgradability

The demands of a data-driven business require a new approach to storage with an integrated combination of scalable, high-performance hardware, leading cloud connectivity, and adaptive storage software to support existing workloads as well as new applications. Storage system design should streamline maintenance and extend the useful life of the storage system.

NetApp® FAS9000 hybrid storage systems are engineered specifically to address these needs. Powered by NetApp ONTAP® data management software, the FAS9000 unifies your SAN and NAS storage infrastructure. Designed to take full advantage of 40GbE and 32Gb FC, the FAS9000 is the most powerful FAS system that NetApp has ever created, and its intelligent modular design enhances reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS). Service operations are greatly simplified, minimizing the risk of errors and reducing the time needed to accomplish the operations. The fully upgradable modular design increases flexibility, streamlines maintenance, and extends the life of the platform, reducing the disruption and expense that come with tech refreshes.

FAS9000 systems can be clustered with NetApp AFF arrays and can be integrated with the cloud. That means you have the control to move your data where it’s needed to deliver the optimal combination of performance, storage capacity, and cost efficiency. With proven agility and data management capabilities, the FAS9000 has the flexibility to keep up with changing business needs while delivering on core IT requirements.

Unlock the power of flash

FAS9000 hybrid storage systems deliver up to 50% more performance than our previous generation, boosting throughput, lowering latency, and meeting stringent service levels. The base configuration includes 2TB of onboard NetApp Flash Cache™ caching that is based on NVMe technology. This can be expanded with up to 16TB of onboard NVMe flash and up to 144TB of hybrid flash by using NetApp Flash Pool™ intelligent data caching. Hot data is automatically promoted to flash in real time, so you get the full benefit of flash performance.

Product Type: SAN/NAS Storage System
Storage
Number of Hard Drives Installed: 0
Number of Solid State Drive Installed: 0
Software
Operating System: Data ONTAP 9.1
Management & Protocols
Protocols:

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

Physical Characteristics
Form Factor: Rack-mountable
Rack Height: 8U