NetApp All Flash FAS
Accelerate your most demanding workloads such as artificial intelligence from edge to core to cloud: AFF A800.
Transform your data into actionable business insights. Fast. The industry’s first end-to-end NVMe unified all-flash system is ready when you are.
The AFF A800 array delivers ultra-low latency of below 200 microsecond and massive throughput of 300 GB/s powered by a combination of NVMe SSDs and NVMe/FC connectivity. Plus the most cloud-integration choices for your artificial-intelligence workflow.
Run your apps with unprecedented speed and scale to wring maximum value from your data: AFF A800.
Modernize your SAN: Newest NVMe-oF technology. Most data-center–efficient flash.
Increase your workload performance by 60%. Cut your application response time by half—with a simple software upgrade to NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) host connectivity1 Without disruption.
Dramatically reduce your data-center footprint and cost. Running ONTAP, award-winning AFF A-Series systems deliver leading density with the industry’s first support of 30TB SSDs.
1. Available for select AFF A-Series models.
Save big—guaranteed—with NetApp efficiency technologies.
Watch your storage costs shrink: Our leading storage-efficiency technologies, native to each AFF system, deliver an unparalleled 22:1 overall data-reduction ratio2On premises or in the cloud.
NetApp AFF customers have saved nearly 6EB in total capacity. Now it’s your turn.
We guarantee your savings with the NetApp Efficiency Guarantee: predictable, effective capacity for specific workloads to ensure a smooth transition to all flash.
And take advantage of the industry’s most flexible rewards program, NetApp NextCredit, toward building your Data Fabric.
2. Including storage efficiencies from snapshots.
Primary Use Cases
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics
Deliver high performance for artificial-intelligence workloads, Hadoop, and NoSQL databases—including MongoDB and Cassandra.
Enterprise Applications
Accelerate Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, VDI, and SAP to meet your business demands.
Consolidation and Virtualization
Consolidate all your workloads—including those in a virtualized environment—with a common set of data services.
Engineering and Design Workloads
Simplify and accelerate your applications. ONTAP® FlexGroup provides massively scalable, high-performance data containers.
Models & Specs
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AFF A800 |
AFF A700s |
AFF A700 |
AFF A300 |
AFF A220[3] | |
NAS Scale-out | 2-24 nodes (12 HA pairs) | 2-24 nodes (12 HA pairs) | 2-24 nodes (12 HA pairs) | 2-24 nodes (12 HA pairs) | 2-24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
Maximum SSD | 2880 | 2592 | 5760 | 4608 | 1,728 |
Maximum Raw Capacity | 79.0PB/70.2PiBB | 79.0PB/70.2PiB | 175.7PB/156.0PiB | 140.5PB/124.8PiB | 48.3PB/42.9PiB |
Effective Capacity [1] | 316.3PB/280.8PiB | 316.3PB/280.8PiB | 702.7PB/623.8PiB | 562.2PB/499.0PiB | 193.3PB/171.6PiB |
Maximum Memory | 15,360GB | 12,288GB | 12,288GB | 3,072GB | 768GB |
SAN Scale-out | 2-12 nodes (6 HA pairs) | 2-12 nodes (6 HA pairs) | 2-12 nodes (6 HA pairs) | 2-12 nodes (6 HA pairs) | 2-12 nodes (6 HA pairs) |
Maximum SSD | 1440 | 1296 | 2880 | 2304 | 864 |
Maximum Raw Capacity | 39.6PB/35.1PiB | 39.6PB/35.1PiB | 87.8PB/78.0PiB | 70.3PB/62.4PiB | 24.2PB/21.4PiB |
Effective Capacity [1] | 158.2PB/140.4PiB | 158.2PB/140.4PiB | 351.4PB/311.9PiB | 281.1PB/249.5PiB | 96.7PB/85.5PiB |
Maximum Memory | 7680GB | 6144GB | 6144GB | 1536GB | 384GB |
Cluster Interconnect | 4x 100GbE | 4x 40GbE | 4x 40GbE | 4x 10GbE | 4x 10GbE |
Maximum SSD | 240 | 216 | 480 | 384 | 144 |
Maximum Raw Capacity | 6.6PB/5.8PiB | 6.6PB/5.8PiB | 14.6PB/13.0PiB | 11.7PB/10.4PiB | 4.0PB/3.6PiB |
Effective Capacity [1] | 26.4PB/23.4PiB | 26.4PB/23.4PiB | 58.6PB/52.0PiB | 46.9PB/41.6PiB | 16.6PB/14.3PiB |
Controller Chassis Form Factor | 4U chassis with two HA controllers and 48 SSD slots | 4U chassis with two HA controllers and 24 SSD slots | 8U chassis with two HA controllers | 3U chassis with two HA controllers | 2U chassis with two HA controllers and 24 SSD slots |
Memory | 1280GB | 1024GB | 1024GB | 256GB | 64GB |
NVRAM/NVMEM | 64GB | 32GB | 64GB | 16GB | 8GB |
PCIe Expansion Slots | 8 | 8 | 20 | 4 | n/a |
Onboard I/O: 100GbE / 40GbE | 4x 100GbE or 4x 40GbE | 4x 40GbE | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Onboard I/O: UTA2 (16Gb FC, 10GbE/ FCoE) | n/a | n/a | n/a | 8 | 8 |
Onboard I/O: 10GbE | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4 | 4 |
Onboard I/O: config only 10Gbase-T | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4 | n/a |
Onboard I/O: 12Gb SAS | n/a | n/a | n/a | 8 | 4 |
Storage Networking Supported | NVMe/FC; FC; iSCSI; NFS; pNFS; CIFS/SMB | NVMe/FC; FC; iSCSI; NFS; pNFS; CIFS/SMB | NVMe/FC; FC; FCoE; iSCSI; NFS; pNFS; CIFS/SMB | FC; FCoE; iSCSI; NFS; pNFS; CIFS/SMB | |
OS Version | ONTAP 9.4 RC1 or later | ONTAP 9.1 GA or later | ONTAP 9.1 RC1 or later | ONTAP 9.4RC1 or later | |
High-Availability | SAS in-band management over SAS connections; Ethernet-based baseboard management controller (BMC) and ONTAP management interface; redundant hot-swappable controllers and power supplies | SAS in-band management over SAS connections; Ethernet-based service processor and ONTAP management interface; redundant hot-swappable controllers, cooling fans, and power supplies | |||
Supported Configurations ONTAP 9.4 | Cluster Configurations
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MetroCluster™ over TCP/IP configurations for synchronous replication
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MetroCluster™ over TCP/IP configurations for synchronous replication in ONTAP 9.3 and later
MetroCluster™ configurations for synchronous replication
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MetroCluster™ configurations for synchronous replication
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Supported Internal SSDs | 15.3TB (coming soon), 7.6 TB, 3.8TB, and 1.9TB 3.8TB self-encrypting[2] (coming soon) | 30.5TB, 15.3TB, 7.6TB, 3.8TB, and 960GB 3.8TB self-encrypting[2] | 30.5TB, 15.3TB, 7.6TB, 3.8TB, and 960GB 3.8TB and 800GB self-encrypting[2] | 30.5TB (external only), 15.3TB, 7.6TB, 3.8TB, and 960GB 3.8TB and 800GB self-encrypting[2] | |
Supported Storage Shelves and SSDs | 6 drive NVMe packs for add on internal storage 6 drive NVMe packs for add on storage
Supported as part of upgrades DS224C with all supported SSDs DS2246 with all supported SSDs |
Configured with new systems:
Supported when expanding system capacity or adding storage from other AFF systems:
[2] Self-encrypting SSDs are AES-256, FIPS 140-2 compliant |
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Maximum RAID Group Sizes | RAID-TEC™ (triple parity RAID, supported with ONTAP 9.0 and later)
SSD: 29 (26 data drives plus 3 parity drives) RAID 6 (RAID DP) SSD: 28 (26 data drives plus 2 parity drives) RAID 4 SSD: 14 (13 data drives plus 1 parity drive) RAID 6 + RAID 1 or RAID 4 + RAID 1 (SyncMirror®) |
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Host Operating Systems Supported | Windows® 2000, Windows Server® 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Linux®, Oracle® Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac® OS, VMware®, ESX® | ||||
Max. Number of LUNs | 12,288 | 4096 | |||
Number of Supported SAN Hosts | 8,192 | 512 | |||
FlexVol® volumes | Up to 1,000 per controller | ||||
Snapshot® Copies | Up to 255,000 per controller | ||||
Maximum Volume Size | 100TiB | ||||
Maximum Aggregate Size | 400TiB in ONTAP 9.1 versions
800TiB in ONTAP 9.2 and later |
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100GbE ports (autoranging to 40GbE) | 20 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
40GbE ports (autoranging to 10GbE) | n/a | 16 | 32 | 8 | n/a |
FC target ports (32Gb autoranging) | 32 | 8 | 64 | 8 | n/a |
FC target ports (16Gb autoranging) | 32 | 16 | 64 | 24 | 8 |
FC target ports (8Gb or 4Gb) | 32 (8Gb only) | 16 | 64 | 24 | 8 |
FCoE target ports, UTA2 | n/a | n/a | 64 | 24 | 8 |
10GbE ports | 32 | n/a | 64 | 20 | 12 |
10Gbase-T ports (1GbE autoranging) | n/a | n/a | 64 | 12 | n/a |
12Gb/6Gb SAS ports | n/a | 16 | 64 | 24 | 4 |
FC initiator ports | 32 | 24 | 64 | 24 | 8 |
Thermal Rating (at 200VAC) | 6,369 BTU/hr (typical)
7,693 BTU/hr (worst case) Unified 100GbE with 32Gb FC dual-controller configuration with 48x 7.6 TB NVMe SSD |
4,253 BTU/hr (typical)
5,205 BTU/hr (worst case) Unified 40GbE-32Gb FC dual-controller configura-tion with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
5,151 BTU/hr (typical)
5,430 BTU/hr (worst case) Dual-controller chassis with 40GbE, 32GbE FC and 12Gb SAS I/O modules 424 BTU/hr (typical) 949 BTU/hr (worst case) DS224C shelf with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
1,987 BTU/hr (typical)
2,263 BTU/hr (worst case) Dual-controller chassis with 10GbE PCIe cards 424 BTU/hr (typical) 949 BTU/hr (worst case) DS224C shelf with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
1,209 BTU/hr (typical)
1,676 BTU/hr (worst case) Dual-controller chassis with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
Weight | 134.7 lb (61.1 kg)
Unified 40GbE-32Gb FC dual-controller configura-tion with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
114.8 lb (52.1 kg)
Unified 40GbE-32Gb FC dual-controller configura-tion with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
183.0 lb (83.0 kg)
Dual-controller chassis with 40GbE, 32GbE FC and 12Gb SAS I/O modules 53.8 lb (24.4 kg) DS224C shelf with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
76.1 lb (34.5 kg)
Dual-controller chassis with 10GbE PCIe cards 53.8 lb (24.4 kg) DS224C shelf with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
60.8 lb (27.6 kg)
Dual-controller chassis with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
Height | 4U | 4U | 10U (8U + 2U shelf) | 5U (3U + 2U shelf) | 2U |
Width | 19″ IEC rack-compliant (17.6″, 44.7 cm) | ||||
Depth | 34.5” (36.6” with cable management bracket) | 32.6” (34.7” with cable management bracket) | 30.8″ (36.8″ with cable management bracket) | 23.9″ (28.9″ with cable management bracket) | 19” (without cable management bracket) |
Operating Temperature, Altitude, and Relative Humidity | 5°C to 40°C (41°F to 104°F) at ≤3,048 m (≤10,000 ft) elevation; 8% to 90% relative humidity, noncondensing | 5°C to 40°C (41°F to 104°F) at ≤3,048 m (≤10,000 ft) elevation; 8% to 90% relative humidity, noncondensing | 5°C to 45°C (41°F to 113°F) at ≤3,048 m (≤10,000 ft) elevation; 8% to 90% relative humidity, noncondensing | ||
Nonoperating Temperature and Relative Humidity | -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F) up to 12,192 m (40,000 ft)
10% to 95% relative humidity, noncondensing, in original container |
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Operating Acoustic Noise (at 23°C and at sea level) |
Unified 100GbE with 32Gb FC dual-controller configuration with 48x 7.6 TB NVMe SSD |
Unified 40GbE-32Gb FC dual-controller configura-tion with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
Dual-controller chassis with 40GbE, 32GbE FC and 12Gb SAS I/O modules |
Dual-controller chassis with 10GbE PCIe cards |
Measured configured with 24x 3.8TB SSD |
Compliance | RoHS-compliant | ||||
Safety/Emissions/Immunity | Safety: EN 60950, CE, CSA 60950, UL 60950, CB IEC60950-1 (all national deviations), EN60825-1, IRAM, GOST-R, BSMI, SONCAP, NRCS LOA (South Africa)
Emissions/Immunity: FCC Part 15 Class A, ICES-03, CE, KCC, VCCI, AS/NZS CISPR 22, EN55022, EN55024, EN61000-3-2, EN61000-3-3, SABS COC (South Africa), BSMI |
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Rack Space | 42U | ||||
Dimensions (height/width/depth) | 78.75″ (200 cm)/23.6″ (60 cm)/44.3″ (112.5 cm) | ||||
Minimum Cabinet Clearances for Airflow | 10″ (25.4 cm) front and 12″ (30.5 cm) rear | ||||
Minimum Cabinet Clearances for Service | 30″ (76.3 cm) front and rear, 12″ top | ||||
AC Power | 200 to 240VAC | ||||
Current | 30A Single Phase or 3-Phase | ||||
Weight (empty) | 307 lbs (138 kg) | ||||
Features | Split rear door with cable egress opening, reversible front door (left or right handed) |
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- Effective capacity based on 5:1 storage efficiency ratios with the maximum number of SSDs installed; space savings will vary dependent on workload and use cases.
- Self-encrypting SSDs are AES-256, FIPS 140-2 compliant
- For information on AFF A200, the predecessor of AFF A220, click here.
Specifications are subject to change without notice.