NetApp FASx

The main problem of mid-scale businesses — to provide today high rates of business development and to manage constantly growing amounts of data in the conditions of limited IT resources and budgets. Creation of simple, flexible and effective IT infrastructure could solve this problem, having allowed the companies to turn management of the corporate data growing in volume into item of income and competitive advantage of the business. Therefore the decisions made by the enterprises on the infrastructure of data storage have key value for their future success.

2017: NetApp FAS2552

NetApp FAS2552 is a hybrid array, it is focused on use as a part of cloud services, in the organizations of the average level and the distributed offices large the company.

The total amount of storage to 518 TB is supported. FAS2552 provides a standard set of means of data storage. Software tools, the including sets of opportunities are available: data recovery, cloning, replication, backup.

NetApp FAS2552 is available in two options: with the unary or dual controller in the body 2U high.

The amount of memory of ECC is up to 18 GB on each controller.

The amount of memory of NVMEM/NVRAM - 2 GB on each controller.

Specifications

DWH of Netapp FAS2552
	Unary controller			Dual controller
Максимальное Сырое дисковое пространство	749 TB			749 TB
Внутренние диски	24			24
The supported internal disks
Высокопроизводительные жесткие диски	600 GB, 900 GB, 1.2 TB
Жесткие диски высокой емкости	—
SSD	400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB
Диски с поддержкой функции самошифрования	900 GB, 10,000 rpm, SSD of 800 GB, AES-256, compliance of FIPS 140-2
Максимальное число дисков (внутренних и внешних)	144		144
Память ECC	18 GB		36 GB
Конфигурации контроллеров	Unary or dual controllers in uniform body 2U
Максимальный объем Flash Pool	16 ТБ	16 TB
NVMEM/NVRAM	2 ГБ	4 GB
Встроенный интерфейс ввода-вывода: UTA 2 (с поддержкой FC 8 Гбит/с, FC 16 Гбит/с, FCoE, Ethernet 10 Гбит/с)	4	8
Встроенный интерфейс ввода-вывода: Base-T 10 Гбит/с	—	—
Встроенный интерфейс ввода-вывода: SAS 6 Гбит/с	2	4
Встроенный интерфейс ввода-вывода: Ethernet 1 Гбит/с	2	4
Поддерживаемые протоколы СХД	iSCSI, FCoE and FC for FAS255x; iSCSI for FAS2520 NFS V2/V3/V4 over UDP or TCP, PCNFSD V1/V2 for authentication of NFS (PC), Microsoft CIFS, HTTP 1.0, virtual hosts of HTTP 1.1
Версия ОС	Data ONTAP 8.2.2 RC1 or above
Функции высокой готовности	Alternate Control Path (ACP); the service processor on the basis of Ethernet and Data ONTAP control interface; reserve controllers with a possibility of hot swap, fans of cooling and power supplies
Поддерживаемые конфигурации	Configurations of clusters Cluster with one node Clusters with two nodes without switch Clusters with two nodes with the switch Clusters of couples of high readiness Configurations 7-Mode Controllers: Unary controller Active-active controllers in couple of high readiness Active-passive controllers in couple of high readiness Server part (disks): One way with the unary controller or couple of high readiness Double way with the unary controller MP-HA connection with one couple of high readiness (is recommended)
Поддерживаемые дисковые полки	DS2246 (2U, 24 disks, 2.5 inches, small form factor) DS4246 (4U, 24 disks, 3.5 inches, high form-factor) Detailed information on disk regiments for expansion and the supported carriers for these shelves see on the page Disk shelves and data media of Netapp.
Максимальные группы RAID	RAID 6 (RAID-DP) SAS and Fibre Channel: 28 (26 disks with data and 2 disks of parity) SATA: 20 (18 disks with data and 2 disks of parity) RAID 4 SAS and Fibre Channel: 14 (13 disks with data and 1 disk of parity) SATA: 7 (6 disks with data and 1 disk of parity) RAID 6 + RAID 1 или RAID 4 + RAID 1 (SyncMirror)
Поддерживаемые операционные системы на хостах и клиентах	Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows XP, Linux, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS, VMware, ESX
Максимальное число LUN	2048 volumes on the controller
Число поддерживаемых хостов	Up to 6 ports on one controller configured as ports for connection of the user part (node) Up to 12 servers with direct connection to the server in the active-active configuration The connected nodes on couple of high readiness: up to 512 connected SAN servers
Тома FlexVol	Up to 500 volumes on one controller
Мгновенные копии Snapshot	Up to 127,500 volumes on one controller
Макс. размер тома/агрегированного тома	120 TB

Technical characteristics for FAS2552 configuration with horizontal scaling (hybrid and only a disk)

	DWH OF FAS2552
Горизонтально масштабируемая система хранения данных NAS/SAN	from 1 to 8 nodes (4 HA pairs)
Максимальное число дисков	576
Максимальная емкость «сырого» дискового пространства	3 ПБ
Максимальный объем Flash Pool	64 ТБ
Максимальный объем памяти	144 ГБ
Межкластерное соединение	Ethernet of 10 Gbps

Operating conditions and storages of FAS2552
Тепловыделение	1218 BTE (sredn.) 1737 BTE (the most adverse option)
Масса	25.3 kg
Высота	8.5 cm (is located to the slot 2U high)
Ширина	44.7 cm (corresponds to IEC 19 rack")
Глубина (без кронштейнов управления кабелями)	48 см
Рабочая температура, относительная влажность и высота над у. м.	10–40 °C, is not higher than 3000 m above sea-level, a relative humidity of 20-80% without condensation
Температура и относительная влажность вне эксплуатации	- 40–70 °C, is not higher than 12,192 m, a typical unconditioned cargo compartment of the airplane, a relative humidity of 8-80% without condensation, in original packaging
Рабочий уровень шума	DWH OF FAS2552:<p>The stated power of a sound (LwAd) according to ISO 9296: 6.2 It is white Sound pressure (LpAm) (vantage point):

2016: NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) A200

The Netapp company provided at the end of 2016 NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) A200 — a product from a portfolio a flash technologies, solutions for cloud environments and DPC which are designed to help to manage data and to provide their protection.

The array of initial level provides high availability a flash technologies of a corporate class. A system facilitates transition of medium business to All-Flash technology. She turns on compact construction of chassis 2U with the internal shelf for solid state drives (SSD).

"The array of initial A200 level expands our portfolio with All-Flash and allows medium business to seize the opportunities of Data Fabric technologies from Netapp company. Now easily and just to manage all data of business within flash drives, disks and cloud resources — Peter Wüst, the senior director on new solutions and innovations of Netapp in EMEA region said. — Besides, the solutions Netapp All-Flash for control of data are suitable for any budget and business needs and help to improve in general ergonomics of DPC due to economy of energy and working areas and also thanks to simple data access in local and cloud environments".

2015: The line of FAS was replenished with AFF8000 arrays

 On June 24, 2015 the Netapp company announced expansion of a line a flash arrays of DWH the models which are specially developed for corporate clients.

FAS 8000 integrates performance of a world class and the abilities to manage, best in the class, data within one solution.

A series is provided along with the innovation FlashEssentials for NetApp Data ONTAP which increase performance and efficiency a flash data.

DWH on a basis a flash memory cardinally changes the rate of business, increasing performance of applications and efficiency of servers. However modern the flash systems is not enough functions, important for the enterprises, - application integration, the built-in data protection and compatibility with a cloud.

AFF8000 series provides all properties necessary for widespread introduction a flash systems.

For June 24, 2015 in the market four AFF8000 models available to the order as autonomous systems, and as components of convergent infrastructure FlexPod are available. Professional services of support from Netapp company and its partners will help to define workloads with which a flash system are capable to cope.

NetApp announced also new offers on installation and expanded support of products of AFF8000 series. The customers wishing to estimate advantages of solutions of Netapp can order trial products from the company and its partners.

Main features

AFF8000 series provides feature set a flash technologies for the enterprises. Solutions AFF8000 are proposed:

• service quality,
• multi-user environment
• application integration from NetApp.

Everything together these options simplify setup of SQL databases and Oracle, virtual servers and workloads of VDI, management of them.

• FlashEssentials. In the All Flash FAS system improvements of the software on which the experienced laboratory of advanced technologies NetApp worked are implemented. Among new developments  — the way of transfer of the read-out data optimized under a flash memory, data compression at receipt in DWH and deduplication of data before their disk writing. FlashEssentials  is a component of the clustered Data ONTAP system on the basis of which the Netapp company implements the strategy of data management of future generation  — Data Fabric. Approach of Netapp allows customers to define methods of data management, their protection and movement about a flash memory of a disk and in a cloud, completely to control these processes.

• NetApp OnCommand Performance Manager 2.0. Software provides to users access to the complex toolbar for automatic evaluation of performance and troubleshooting, and finally  — for achievement of optimal indicators of a system.

• Workload Wizard. The master allows to configure automatically installation process of Oracle and the Microsoft SQL Server to simplify parameters of DWH and the procedure of connection a host server.

• Service and support for the enterprises.

• • Professional services of support of Netapp help the enterprises to define the main workloads
  • for highly productive a flash systems and to raise an investment payback in All Flash FAS.

• • NetApp SupportEdge Services helping to optimize investments expand support for the All Flash FAS systems for a period of up to seven years in sale point

• • the Service of Netapp Installation Service for the All Flash FAS platforms is offered at uniform price  — irrespective of a configuration

• Possibilities of testing. Official partners and customers can order the trial systems that quickly and easily to estimate influence a flash technologies on the workloads.

2014

NetApp FAS8080 EX

FAS8080 EX - a powerful hybrid array of DWH is created especially for crucial workloads which need very high performance (up to 4 million input-output operations per second), scalability to several petabyte and integration of the leader a flash memory, including the all-flash configurations.

On June 18, 2014 the Netapp company announced release of the powerful unified storage system, most accelerating work of the corporate FAS8080 EX applications.

Are intended to DWH of Netapp FAS8000 series for fast adaptation to the changing requirements of the enterprise and conform to requirements to duration of trouble-free operation, scalability and profitability.

Advantages

• Fast accomplishment of business operations. Profitable using high rates of performance and also advantage of multinuclear architecture and self-governed an acceleration flash technologies, the unified horizontally scalable DWH of FAS8000 increases capacity and reduces waiting time, ensuring stable operation of applications with diverse workloads of SAN and NAS.

• Rationalization of IT transactions. Thanks to the simplified management and the approved integration with circles of suppliers of cloud services you can safely implement FAS8000 system in the data processing center and a hybrid cloud. Uninterrupted transactions simplify long-term process of scaling and increase the period of smooth operation, providing carrying out repair of hardware components, upgrade of technical means and other updates without shutdown of a system.

• Providing effective indicator of total ownership cost. The approved technologies of effective data storage and the doubled ratio "price performance" in comparison with the previous generation allow to reduce the occupied disk space and to improve payback indicators in the long term. The software of virtualization of DWH of FlexArray will allow to integrate the existing arrays with FAS8000 systems, increasing the level of consolidation and value of your business.

FAS8000 are equipped with multiprocessor chipsets of Intel, effectively use high-performance modules of memory and  NVRAM for acceleration and  optimization of write operations  and also the architecture of PCIe gen3 adapting to the volume of input-output operations and  most increasing application performance. After ten years of optimization of work with multi-core processors, OS Data ONTAP can use the most new multinuclear solutions for support of modern requirements to DWH.

NetApp FAS8000

In February, 2014 NetApp presented at global market and in Russia the new product line of FAS8000 intended for creation of horizontally scalable cluster DWH of a corporate class.

The line of FAS8000 includes three types of blocks. The first of them – FAS8020 - should come to replacement of model of the previous generation of FAS/V3220. The block contains 12 main cores, 48 GB of memory, 8 GB of RAM and 6 TB VST of flash-memory.

The second model of a line – FAS8040 – should replace FAS/V3250 model. This block has for 60% the large volume of memory in comparison with the last – 64 GB and by 4 times big NVRAM – 16 GB. The greatest possible volume of VST of flash-memory in this block is 12 TB.

The senior model – FAS8060 – will come to replacement of FAS/V6220 model. It contains 32 main cores, 128 GB of memory, 16 GB of NVRAM and 18 TB flash-memories.

The company notes that separate FAS8000 blocks provide higher performance to two times, than in the previous lines (up to 2.6 million IOPS) and allow to set up to three times more flash-memories and also have a large number of ports.

New products are intended only for use as a part of a cluster based on own Netapp OS Data ONTAP and allow to integrate SAN, NAS and virtualization DWH in a uniform hybrid array.

Among key features of FAS8000 the producer notes existence of the built-in ports for connection of cluster interconnect and existence of the unified port for use of channels Fibre Channel and Ethernet without the need for installation of additional cards.

One more feature of systems – an opportunity due to adding of the license of new software of Flex Array to virtualize the existing disk arrays on the normal FAS systems of different producers, without selecting them in a separate line.

2013

NetApp FAS2000

Flagship product of the company — family of storage systems of Netapp of FAS (Fabricattached Storage). It is based on architecture of own development. Uses a number of the patented solutions, such as own high-performance "file system" of WAFL for placement on disks of data units, and other architectural features.

NetApp FAS2000 inexpensive and convenient storage system in operation. It will help to bridle rapid growth of amounts of data and with maximum efficiency to use the reduced budget.

Rapid growth of amounts of data

If you are responsible for work of the remote division, branch, department or company of average scale, then today more than ever you should deal with the reduced budgets overloaded with workers and need to achieve bigger smaller means. These problems, together with the growing complexity of your Windows® environment, can quickly absorb an essential part of your budget and affect negatively performance of your work.

The solution for today and on the future

In process of growth of your company also her need for effective data storage grows. According to specialists of Netapp, infrastructure of data processing should be set only once, and afterwards only to expand in process of growth of requirements. The general architecture of single systems of storage created by us will allow you quickly and without effort to increase available disk space of the systems and to expand their functionality. NetApp® FAS2000 systems have an optimal combination of the price, high-speed performance and scalability.

The increased efficiency

In Netapp FAS2000 systems the broad spectrum of modern technologies and opportunities on the basis of Data ONTAP® promoting increase in efficiency of use of storage systems and works of their administrators is implemented.

• The Netapp Snapshot™ technology allows to create images of data on the set timepoint that allows to perform almost instant recovery of both files, and full ranges of data. This technology is suitable for data protection in the working systems.
• Flexible selection of resources allows to avoid non-optimal distribution of the expensive resources and labor-consuming reconfiguration typical for other storage systems.
• Deduplication gives the chance to store only one copy of each unique data object that considerably reduces the occupied volume of disk space.
• The highly effective array of RAID-DP® protects from simultaneous failure of several disks in the RAID group.

Rapid response to changes

To help your infrastructure of data storage to go in step with development of your company, we offer following features:

• New level of high-speed performance for support of the most exacting applications
• The new built-in interface of SAS allowing to connect as required disks with a total amount up to 136 TB for accomplishment of all tasks required to you.

By means of a wide choice of complete and additional software tools you can:

• To dynamically expand or reduce volumes or LUN one command
• Pass from the systems of initial FAS2000 level to the systems of Netapp of average and high-class in which the operating system, tools and software products is used the same
• Without effort to expand opportunities for work with data on a measure of growth of your requirements, purchasing the additional Netapp Software Pack software packages.

Thanks to the new simplified product structure you had a big freedom of choice of standard configurations of systems with capacious disks at the attractive prices.

It is easy to purchase, implement and manage

To purchase, implement and operate FAS2000 storage systems and also to provide compliance of opportunities of infrastructure of storage of Netapp to requirements of your company, it is not necessary to be the storage systems specialist.

By means of the Netapp System Manager program you can:

• To quickly implement storage systems of Netapp, as a rule within several minutes after their installation.
• Select storage resources for SAN (iSCSI/FCP) and NAS (CIFS/NFS) both with physical, and with the virtualized servers.
• Carry out the main objectives of device management by means of ordinary program masters according to workflows.
• Manage storage systems of Netapp from the Management console (MMC) that allows to minimize expenses on training and management.

FAS2000 is economic storage system, and unique opportunities of work with data implemented by Netapp company help it to reach the best indicators of TCO, than other systems of its class.

Models of FAS2000 family differ in the reasonable price and convenience in operation. In all of them the Data ONTAP operating system and the best developments in the industry is used. Each of these systems has the indicators of high-speed performance, efficiency and price relation and opportunities, best in the segment. As three models enter into FAS2000 family, you can select price relation, optimal for yourself, high-speed performance and functionality.

FAS2020 is the most available platform in this family, perfectly suitable for cases when the price plays a paramount role

• For the enterprises of average scale, the remote divisions and local storage systems when low acquisition value is required
• Excellently are suitable for consolidation of the virtualized environments with one-three applications running Windows and low loadings regarding file transfer
• Are offered in the form of standard configurations of systems, convenient for the order, with high-capacious disks at the attractive prices.

Storage systems of the FAS 2000 series can be used as:

• Storage system of small and medium-sized enterprise.
• The storage system of branch, especially if at head office is also used storage system of Netapp.
• The consolidated storage system of level of division.
• The storage system intended for receiving replication in reserve data center.
• Storage system with sufficient requirements for high-speed performance and performance.
• Provides support of RAID 6 of level. Existence of Fibre Channel ports with a speed of 4 Gbps.

Main technical characteristics

• The maximum capacity - 68TB
• The maximum quantity of disks - 68 (12 int+56 ext)
• Height (single/HA) - 2U
• Memory (single/HA) - 2GB/1GB
• Expansion slots PCIe - No
• The integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports (single/HA) - 2/4
• The integrated 4GB FC (single/HA) ports - 2/4

Advantages:

• Compactness (2U, 12 disks).
• Support of SAS and SATA (but not in one shelf).
• Possibility of simple upgrade on more powerful DWH of FAS2040.

NetApp FAS3220 и FAS3250

Any system of FAS3200 series is a flexible platform which can be transformed to the virtualized private cloud or on traditional Wednesday where the capacity of one DWH can be from several terabyte to more than 2nd petabyte. At a clustering performance and capacity of infrastructure of FAS are scaled and transferred to all 24 nodes of DWH. The clustering of such architecture allows to increase considerably the power and system performance without interruption of workflows due to transparency of updates, replacement of elements of a system and balancing of performance.

Data ONTAP clustering from NetApp — OS, best in the industry, for DWH — expands its functionality as in this case platforms of storage of high readiness of FAS3220 and FAS3250 can be used as the separated pool of resources. Such opportunity means high extent of scaling and performance, simplicity of management and transparency of data migration of applications. Data ONTAP is the best operating system for DWH which provides such functions as data protection, the high level of scaling, flexible selection of resources, deduplication, creation of "flexible" clones, instant pictures, backup and disaster recovery within a single platform of data management.

To simplify process of expansion and to make possible individual preference, the number of the expansion slots PCIe (which can be used for support of net boards, the modules Flach Cache and connection of additional resources of storage) increased three times.

FAS3220 and FAS3250 models, as well as all FAS systems, allow to cut down twice expenses on acquisition of disks thanks to an expanded set of functions for increase in efficiency of DWH which are applied both to the main, and to reserve to storage systems.

Optimization of system performance thanks to platforms of Flash-Enabled

FAS3220 and FAS3250 systems were created for fall forward of a response and performance of applications due to use powerful a flash technologies of Netapp which allow to distribute automatically resources on virtual levels. The module NetApp® Flash Cache which is PCIe payment under control of the controller increases access rate to this by intellectual caching of recently read data and the user's metadata in the storage controller. This function does not require long setup or permanent observation therefore, having added the module Netapp Flash Cache with a possibility of intellectual caching, IT administrators will be able to optimize performance and efficiency of DWH, to reduce costs thanks to capacity growth of a subsystem of input-output by 75% and to reduce number of disk storage modules without damage of performance.

NetApp Flash Pool is the Data ONTAP® OS program function which is responsible for automatic resource allocation between levels of solid state drives (SSD) and traditional hard drives (HDD) on the basis of use of traffic that it gives the chance to increase performance in the conditions of loading without data transfer of users on demand. The Flash Accel software product uses Flash technology in operation of the server and by that allows to increase capacity of a subsystem of input-output approximately by 80%, and honor the average time of a response for 90%. For the organizations support of access to "hot" data and caching of DWH using means of Flash Cache and Flash Pool is an opportunity to increase the service level and efficiency of data storage more than by 60% due to use of the correct carrier in due time and in relation to the necessary data.

Speed, power and reliability of IT infrastructure will make it true competitive advantage of the company. The combination of Flash and Netapp Virtual Storage Tier technologies also increases efficiency of DWH thanks to expense reduction on the electric power, cooling and economy of space for DPC.

NetApp FAS2220

Storage system of Netapp of FAS2220 series with the low starting price — the new solution in a product line of initial level designed to support and develop success of Netapp company as one of recognized leaders in the market of DWH for medium business which solutions are annually selected by more than 10,000 new customers. DWH of Netapp FAS2220 — will consolidate these achievements, thanks to the innovative technologies which will provide to customers:

• Good start — thanks to the functionality providing higher performance and efficiency in comparison with traditional DWH of initial level.
• Simplicity in management — thanks to increase in efficiency without increase in complexity of deployment and management.
• Intellectual development — due to simple scaling and investment into the existing systems for satisfaction to new requirements of the growing business.

NetApp also represents the updated, expanded ecosystem of the specialized partner resellers offering additional services for medium business — the cloud backup and disaster recovery constructed on technologies of Netapp and also the new programs for partners focused on expansion of their business.

• In FAS2220 series the new Netapp Flash Pool technology thanks to which customers receive the optimal combination of performance and an eeffektivnost necessary for good start and further business development is implemented. The Flash Pool technology is the logical continuation and development technologists of performance improvement of the Netapp Virtual Storage Tier applications offered now and for mid-scale businesses. This the simple solution in deployment and management which is an integral part of the functionality including 9 already proved technologies of Netapp for increase in efficiency of use of resources of storage now. NetApp — the only supplier offering this unique principle of caching in a segment of solutions of initial level.
• The new version of Netapp On Command® System Manager 2.1 simplifies and automates setup and the subsequent management of DWH of Netapp. This tool allows customers to increase efficiency of the environment of storage and services, to increase performance and to lower a load scale on IT resources.
• FAS2200 series works based on the latest version of the Data ONTAP® operating system, and provides itself truly unified and scalable architecture which it is possible easily and with the minimum costs to expand to more high-class system and also to add with new features without the need for regeneration of a system. The cluster architecture of Data ONTAP allows to add to the separated infrastructures extra disk space as required and without work interruption.

DWH of FAS2220 is available since June 12, 2012 through a global network of the authorized resellers, distributors and system integrators of Netapp company. The service of DPaaS is available through specialized partner resellers of Netapp.

NetApp FAS2020

FAS2020 model is a storage system of initial level. It contains a broad spectrum of functions and technologies based on the Data ONTAP operating system which help to increase efficiency of use of disk space and also to reduce costs on implementation and operation of DWH. The unified architecture allows to increase quickly the capacity of DWH, and additional software – to expand its functionality.

NetApp of FAS 2020 is a storage system with additional functionality thanks to which, provides service to end users under the protocols CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP, WebDav. Besides, she has all potential of classical storage systems (FC and iSCSI protocols).

The advantage of these systems in capability to replace a file server of servers in IT to infrastructure and at the same time to provide higher reliability, high-speed performance and advanced functionality. NetApp of FAS 2020 is perfect storage for the systems of virtualization of VMware, Hyper-V, Xen.