NetApp E-Series

2017: NetApp E5700 Series

On September 25, 2017 the Netapp company announced release of an array of Netapp E5700 Series.

NetApp E5700 Series

NetApp E5700 Series — hybrid a flash system. It contains the adaptive algorithms of caching of Netapp SANtricity OS supporting a broad spectrum of workloads of applications.

E5700 system supports a set of interfaces of hosts:

• 32Gb Fibre Channel,
• 25Gb iSCSI,
• 100Gb InfiniBand,
• 12Gb SAS
• 100Gb NVMe с InfiniBand.

Netapp EF5700 system, (2017)

2016: NetApp E2800

On September 8, 2016 the Netapp company provided to all-flash an array of initial Netapp E2800 level.

NetApp E2800 is focused on use in the enterprises of average scale of business and remote offices where simple, economic solutions for data analysis^[1] are required^[1].

NetApp E2800, (2016)

According to statements of the company, use of an array helps:

• simplify IT infrastructure and lower operating costs;
• increase performance at data access and their analysis;
• receive array all-flash performance at the moderate price;
• accelerate processing of video records;
• manage procedures of deployment and data access by means of software of SANtricity System Manager with the intuitive interface of the browser.

2013

NetApp E2700 SAN

NetApp E2700 SAN is a new array of data storage from NetApp.

On November 19, 2013 the Netapp company announced release of a new array of data storage of Netapp E2700 SAN.

Description

Array of data storage of Netapp E2700 SAN - E2700 systems differ in simplicity and flexibility of management that allows IT personnel to focus on business development, and not just on data storage process control. Departments of information technologies can increase storage capacity in process of organization development, without the need for reconfiguration of the started applications.

Implementation of SAS with a capacity of 12 Gbytes, E2700 system sharply increases performance of applications at assessment on price relation and performance. The convenience of operation and ease of application integration meets the requirements of any application environment regarding support of the controller of production (FC), interfaces of iSCSI, SAS and SAS.

Advantages

• Performance improvement of a disk subsystem of input-output thanks to effective architecture of DWH
• Ensuring high capacity for workloads of the transactional applications connected with reading/record transactions
• Scaling option up to 192 disks thanks to simple block DWH of SAN
• Easy integration due to support of different interfaces, disks and disk shelves

Key features of DWH of E2700

• the performance level, highest in the class, for a wide number of databases and other transactional applications;
• reduces costs for data management with high capacity using the configured architecture simple in use and installation;
• optimizes performance, reduces waiting time, will increase capacity and an indicator of IOPS;
• provides uninterrupted operation of transactions with the help of flexible application integration;
• scalability of disk space in process of growth of the enterprise.

NetApp E5500

On November 19, 2013 NetApp provided the hardware platform meeting the requirements to performance of the applications working with large volumes of data.

The updated array of Netapp E5500 SAN - a high-performance system where possibilities of data protection by means of use of an instrumental packet of SANtricity with replication features of data and the flexible interface are expanded. A system is offered with the disks iSCSI with a capacity of 10 Gbytes and the disks FC with a capacity of 16 Gbytes. The Netapp AutoSupport program provides to users a possibility of control of all enterprise and contains the built-in means of analytics for proactive control. E5500 can support amount of memory up to 1.5 PBytes on one system, necessary for large-scale data processing systems.

Netapp E5500 systems - the addition to the Netapp E-Series platform which is a basis for creation of high-performance and high-available data streams. The companies working with large volumes of data and high performance applications need the infrastructure providing the high speed of work, scalability and cost efficiency. Being the E-Series platform of the seventh generation, E5500 inherited modular scalability and reliability of the previous generations. A system provides new performance level, efficiency and reliability. Thanks to high-performance architecture, more high density of storage and the improved support functions, the new E5500 controller provides to the organizations and OEM partner the platform conforming to requirements to speed, the scalabilities and reliability resulting from work with large volumes of data and high performance applications.

"High-performance solutions for processing and the analysis of huge amounts of data taking into account rational use of energy and cost efficiency are necessary for the companies working with large volumes of data and high performance applications — Brendon Howe, the vice president of division of marketing of products and solutions of Netapp company says. — It is quite difficult to reach high performance at reasonable costs, however Netapp company, having extensive experience in the field of industry solutions and storage systems (we unrolled more than 500,000 E-Series systems), created the reliable base for new E5500 system. Rapid development of E-Series allowed us to create the new product providing the capacity, best in the industry, counting on the spent dollar at the maximum reliability and density of data storage".

The SGI Infinite Storage 5600 system which is the OEM version of Netapp E5500 showed the excellent results in SPC-2 test confirming performance and cost efficiency of a new system. These results show unsurpassed opportunities of E5500 during the work with large volumes yielded and high performance applications.1 Test results of SPC-2 show very high rate "the number of input-output operations on one spindle", more than by 2.5 times exceeding performance of the comparable third-party This system.2 explains how E5500 helps customers to improve indicators of a business activity and also to reduce operating costs and costs for power supply and cooling of a system.

In E5500 system the modular architecture which can be used with such systems as Lustre and Hadoop, for almost unlimited scaling of capacity is implemented. Along with support of disks with a capacity of 4 TB, E5500 system offers the high density of storage and speed necessary for fast achievement of necessary results during the work with high performance applications and large volumes of data. Thus, the storage infrastructure constructed based on this system provides more high density of data storage, capacity and performance, best in a class.

In addition to E5500, in a product line of E-Series the Netapp Auto Support tool allowing to improve service and to increase error-free running time is provided. NetApp Auto Support transfers to uniform technical support service of Netapp information on key indicators of system operation. Improvement of working capacity and error-free running time of a system, increase in efficiency of storage and operation and also better support belong to advantages of Netapp Auto Support.

2012: NetApp E-Series

The Netapp company provided in the fall of 2012 new opportunities of the Netapp E-Series platform intended for work with high performance applications and large volumes of data. The updated E-Series platform is a basis for processing of the applied workflows differing in high readiness, high capacity and support of optimization of performance. It is important for the markets with vertical structure (health care, security, media) and also for the industries where high-performance computing systems play a crucial role (the oil and gas industry, production, public sector).

The version of software for management of data storage of Netapp SANtricity for E-Series includes support of solid state drives as a cache, the number of network interfaces is expanded and new services of mirroring and replication are added. The SSD cache is capable to improve performance and to reduce storage costs of data. To the organizations which often face big and difficult data sets it will help to accelerate accomplishment of workflows. Use of SSD as a cache provides intellectual separation of levels of storage, quick access to important data of applications and high density of placement for long-term data storage. According to requirements to disk space or preserving of data seldom used data will remain on inexpensive hard drives of bigger capacity.

With versions of E-Series customers and OEM-partner had an opportunity to build in network interfaces of 10 Gbps of iSCSI products of this family and 6 Gbps of SAS on Netapp E5400 systems, thereby providing a broad spectrum of network interfaces for the solutions expected specialized workloads.

Thanks to expanded functions of data protection customers of the E-Series environments and OEM partner can use specialized infrastructure of high readiness for work with specific applications. Updates include additional function of mirroring, technology of service Copy Service and dynamic disk pools for data protection. Such security technology allows the customers working with large volumes of data to maintain stability of accomplishment of business operations and to reduce costs for DWH. The duplicative E-Series components, automatic abnormal switching of channels and administration of a system in real time maintain operability of the organization.