Table 1) AFF A-Series technical specifications
AFF A1K AFF A90 AFF A70 AFF A50 AFF A30 AFF A20
2–24 nodes 2–24 nodes 2–24 nodes 2–24 nodes 2–24 nodes 2–24 nodes
Maximum scale-out
(12 HA pairs) (12 HA pairs) (12 HA pairs) (12 HA pairs) (12 HA pairs) (12 HA pairs)
Maximum SSDs 2880 2880 2880 1440 864 576
Maximum effective
185PB 185PB 185PB 92PB 54PB 37PB
capacity 1
Controller chassis 4U; 48 internal 4U; 48 internal 2U; 24 internal 2U; 24 internal 2U; 24 internal
2X2U
form factor SSD slots SSD slots SSD slots SSD slots SSD slots
Power consumption 2718W2
1950W2 1232W2 901W2 801W2 683W2
(median) (with NS224)
PCIe expansion slots 18 18 18 8 8 8
FC target ports
48 56 56 24 24 24
(64Gb autoranging)
FC target ports
48 56 56 24 24 24
(32Gb autoranging)
FC target ports
48 56 56 24 24 24
(16Gb autoranging)
200GbE ports
(100GbE/40GbE 24 24 24 n/a n/a n/a
autoranging)
100GbE ports
36 36 36 16 16 12
(40GbE autoranging)
25GbE ports
48 56 56 24 24 32
(10GbE autoranging)
10GBASE-T
48 56 56 24 24 24
(1GbE autoranging)
ONTAP 9.15.1 ONTAP 9.15.1 ONTAP 9.15.1 ONTAP 9.16.1 ONTAP 9.16.1 ONTAP 9.16.1
OS version
or later or later or later or later or later or later
Shelves and media NS224 (2U, 24 NS224 (2U, 24 NS224 (2U, 24 NS224 (2U, 24 NS224 (2U, 24 NS224 (2U, 24
drives, SFF NVMe) drives, SFF NVMe) drives, SFF NVMe) drives, SFF NVMe) drives, SFF NVMe) drives, SFF NVMe)
Host/client OS
Windows Server, Linux, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, macOS, VMware, ESX
supported
1
Effective capacity based on 5:1 storage efficiency ratio with the maximum number of SSDs installed; space savings will vary dependent on workload and use cases.
2
Estimate under typical conditions - awaiting field data for new product.
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Table 2) AFF A-Series software
Data access protocols • FC, iSCSI, NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, NFS, NFSv4/RDMA, SMB, S3
• Active-active controller architecture
High availability • Nondisruptive maintenance, upgrade, and scale-out clustering
• Multisite resiliency for continuous data access
• Inline data compression, deduplication, and compaction
Storage efficiency • Space-efficient LUN, file, and volume cloning
• Automatic data tiering
• Intuitive onboard GUI, REST APIs, and automation integration
• AI-informed predictive analytics and corrective action
• QoS workload control
Data management
• Easy provisioning and data management from market-leading host operating systems, hypervisors,
and application software
• Multisite copy caching for improved read and write performance over distance
Scalable NAS • Large-scale single namespace management with local and remote caching
• Application-consistent snapshot copies and restore capabilities
• Integrated remote backup and disaster recovery
Data protection
• Synchronous zero-data-loss replication
• Symmetric active-active multi-site replication for business continuity
• Automatic ransomware protection
• Multifactor administrative access, multi-admin verification, dynamic authorization framework
• Secure multitenant shared storage
Security and compliance
• Tamper-proof snapshots with SnapLock
• In-flight and data-at-rest encryption
• Regulatory-compliant data retention
Cloud integration • Seamlessly tier, back up, replicate, and cache data to private and public clouds
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AFF A-SERIES
Powerful. Intelligent. Secure.
Unified data storage built for the AI era Transform to meet the needs of business today
Data-driven organizations require an agile and efficient
Welcome to the future of intelligent data infrastructure.
hybrid IT infrastructure to meet the demand for fast, secure,
and continuous access to distributed data in the hybrid
NetApp® AFF A-Series systems easily power your most
cloud. NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure delivers
demanding workloads—from the mission-critical apps that
the industry’s richest suite of data services across hybrid
run your business today to the AI and GenAI workloads
multicloud, enabling teams to seamlessly consume the
that will unlock innovation and productivity in the future.
services they require, on premises or in the cloud.
With the advanced data management, industry-leading
ransomware protection, and cloud integration that GenAI
NetApp technologies, including the AFF A-Series, are
and other modern workloads demand, only NetApp delivers
anchored in unified data storage, which enables businesses
true unified storage architected for the next generation.
to run any data type, and any app workload, across their
premises and cloud with a single OS: ONTAP. A unified
The AFF A-Series storage family, powered by NetApp
management experience provides ease of use and
ONTAP® data management software, delivers the same
efficiency, eliminating infrastructure silos and data
NetApp simplicity and reliability that tens of thousands of
bottlenecks and delivering unmatched simplicity at scale.
organizations of every size, in every industry, around the
globe, have trusted for years. It’s the same technology that
the top three public clouds rely on to drive all your apps and
data across hybrid cloud. No more silos, no more storage
complexity. Just powerful, intelligent, secure storage to
seamlessly accelerate your business.
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Emerging workloads, such as AI and GenAI, data analytics,
and deep learning, demand extreme performance. AFF KEY BENEFITS
A-Series systems deliver industry-leading speed, massive
scalability, and best-in-class integration with public clouds,
NVIDIA, and the MLOps ecosystem to help you accelerate,
Powerful
manage, and protect your next-generation apps across • Turbocharge every workload—VMware, database,
hybrid cloud. AI—with 40 million IOPS, 1TBps throughput, and
massive scale.
Organizations of every size, in every industry, rely on AFF
systems to: • Enable unmatched power and consolidation for
• Accelerate and consolidate every workload (VMware, all your workloads with hyperefficient, unified
database, AI, and more) with unmatched performance, storage that supports block, file, and object.
efficiency, and scale
• Accelerate without trade-offs through consistent
• Drive transformation with a future-proof intelligent performance, AQoS, and proven 99.9999%
data infrastructure that seamlessly manages, protects, data availability.
and mobilizes data across hybrid cloud
• Protect business-critical data against internal and
Intelligent
external threats with real-time ransomware detection,
guaranteed recovery, and business continuity • Transform with an AI-ready ecosystem built
on data-driven intelligence, future-proof
Turbocharge every workload without infrastructure, and deep integrations with
trade-offs
NVIDIA and the MLOps ecosystem.
NetApp AFF A-Series systems deliver industry-leading • Seamlessly manage, protect, and mobilize data,
performance, verified by SPC-1 and SPEC SFS industry at the lowest cost, across hybrid cloud with
benchmarks. These systems are ideal for everything a single storage OS and the industry’s richest
from VMware environments, to highly transactional data services suite.
applications (such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server,
• Simplify and automate hybrid operations with
and MongoDB databases), to the most data-intensive AI
AIOps, efficient AI model versioning, and intuitive
training, tuning, inferencing, and retrieval-augmented
hybrid multicloud control delivered by BlueXP.
generation (RAG) workloads.
With the power of front-end NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP Secure
host connectivity combined with back-end NVMe-attached
SSDs, the high-end AFF A1K modular system delivers up • Protect valuable data from cyberthreats with
to 40 million IOPS and 1TBps throughput in a single cluster built-in AI/ML-based real-time ransomware
through a unified, scale-out architecture. detection designed for industry-first 99%+
accuracy, SIEM/XDR integrations, and guaranteed
The AFF A90 system also delivers high-end performance— recovery with end-to-end orchestration.
in an integrated form factor that’s especially well suited for
AI (including GenAI), EDA, and media/entertainment • Trust in the only hardened enterprise storage
workloads. that’s validated to store top-secret data.
It also enables in-chassis nondisruptive upgrades.
• Prevent app disruptions, even during site failures,
with integrated business continuity.
The integrated midrange AFF A70 system puts outstanding
performance and flexibility (more I/O on network connection)
within your budget.
The midrange AFF A50, AFF A30, and the entry-level AFF
A20 all-flash storage systems offer high performance at With the new AFF A-Series systems, you’ll never need to
an aggressive price point. choose between performance and efficiency. You’ll have
always-on improved data compression and no performance
impact, thanks to QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT). The
systems allow you to achieve exceptional storage efficiency
while delivering the consistent high performance needed
for mission-critical workloads. In addition, the new systems
come with faster front-end 200Gb Ethernet and 64Gb FC
networking connectivity.
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All AFF A-Series systems offer advanced reliability, With AFF A-Series systems, you can add AI workloads to
availability, and serviceability to keep your critical your existing ecosystem as needed without creating new
data available. They also provide comprehensive silos or complexity.
data management and data protection capabilities
for your enterprise applications with industry-leading
Keep important data available, protected,
and secure
ONTAP software.
Leverage unmatched consolidation and scale For data-driven enterprises, the business impact of data
Consolidate all your workloads on AFF A-Series systems, loss can be dramatic—and costly. Organizations must
which can: protect their valuable data from ransomware and other
• Deliver up to 2x better performance compared to external cyberattacks, and from internal threats, to keep
previous generations of systems, with latency as low as their data available, eliminate disruptions, and quickly
100μs recover from failures.
• Support any data type, any app workload,
AFF systems are the only hardened enterprise storage
across hybrid cloud
validated to store top-secret data. They deliver a
• Provide consistent performance, adaptive quality of comprehensive suite of integrated and application-
service (AQoS), and proven 99.9999% data availability consistent data protections, including:
to safeguard SLAs even in multiworkload and
• Robust protection through multifactor authentication,
multitenant environments
immutable tamperproof NetApp Snapshot™ copies,
• Scale nondisruptively to 185PB in a single namespace end-to-end encryption, and automatic blocking of
• Improve the speed and productivity of collaborative malicious file types
teams across multiple locations and increase data • Real-time autonomous ransomware detection, enhanced
throughput for read-intensive applications with by embedded (ML) models, designed for industry-first
NetApp FlexCache® software 99%+ accuracy
• SIEM/XDR integrations
Enable your AI workloads • Guaranteed recovery with end-to-end orchestration
AI holds the promise of new levels of innovation and through the NetApp Ransomware Recovery Guarantee
productivity—and AFF A-Series systems are the ideal and Ransomware Recovery Assurance Service
storage solution to power your AI initiatives and other
• Integrated active-active business continuity
data-intensive workloads. The AFF A-Series gives
enterprises five critical AI capabilities: • Cyber-vault capability that combines advanced
encryption, immutable backups, and air-gapped storage
• Unify data across hybrid cloud and efficiently and
securely serve data science teams. • Application-consistent data protection and clone
management with the NetApp SnapCenter ®
• Deliver abundant levels of performance, efficiency, and
licensed capability
scalability to power every segment of the AI data pipeline,
up to and including AI-as-a-service model training tasks • Replication to any NetApp AFF or FAS system on
in enterprises. the premises or in the cloud with NetApp
SnapMirror® technology
• Streamline AI workflows with model interpretability,
simple versioning, and clear visibility into data lineage.
NetApp is the only storage vendor that can give you
• Get seamless, proven data management across hybrid this level of comprehensive, automated protection and
multicloud to enable hybrid cloud workloads. guaranteed recovery.
• Improve GenAI accuracy and insights by training large
foundational models with your secured data sets. Integrate business continuity and get fast
disaster recovery
With AFF, you can maintain constant data availability with
zero data loss and zero downtime if disruption or disaster
occurs. NetApp MetroCluster® software replicates your
NetApp warrants Snapshot data data synchronously to a separate location to protect your
recovery if a ransomware attack entire system. If something goes wrong at one site, your
occurs. If you can’t recover your applications automatically and instantaneously switch to
data copies with help from NetApp the other site. For a more tailored approach, choose
or partner assistance, NetApp NetApp SnapMirror active sync to cost-efficiently
offers compensation. replicate the most critical data while taking advantage
Find details here of the increased performance, greater flexibility, and
enhanced load-balancing capability that come with the
symmetric active-active architecture.
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With NetApp’s comprehensive security solutions, you can Flexibly consume storage resources
achieve FIPS 140-2 compliance (Level 1 and Level 2) with NetApp AFF A-Series systems are unified data storage
self-encrypting drives. And you can meet governance, risk, built for the AI era. This intelligent data infrastructure
and compliance requirements with security features such enables you to architect for the future while powering
as secure purge, logging and auditing monitors, and write all of your workloads today.
once, read many (WORM) file locking.
Like the rest of the NetApp portfolio, the new AFF
Increase operational efficiency for A-Series systems are available through traditional capex
your business
or as a service with the NetApp Keystone® portfolio.
Gain financial flexibility as you modernize, and better
With NetApp ONTAP advanced data management, you can align IT expenditure to business needs.
lower IT costs by simplifying operations, consolidating
workloads, and lowering overhead. Get more business value with services
Whether you’re planning your next-generation data
NetApp AFF A-Series systems offer broad support of center, need specialized know-how for a major storage
application ecosystems and deep integration for enterprise deployment, or want to optimize the operational
applications, virtual desktop infrastructure, databases, efficiency of your existing infrastructure, NetApp
server virtualization, and MLOps. Infrastructure Professional Services and NetApp Certified Partners
management tools simplify and automate common can help.
storage tasks:
• Easily provision and rebalance workloads in minutes
with one-click automation and self-service.
Eliminate the headache of tech
• Upgrade your OS and firmware with a single click. refreshes with the Storage Lifecycle
• Import LUNs from third-party storage arrays directly Program: Get a new controller every 3
into an AFF system to seamlessly migrate data. years with support-managed updates
included, or move to the cloud—
In addition, the NetApp BlueXP™ digital advisor enables whichever best meets your needs.
you to optimize your NetApp systems with predictive Find out more
analytics and proactive support.
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