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.

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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.

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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.

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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


	AFF A800 360° VIEW	AFF A700s 360° VIEW	AFF A700 360° VIEW	AFF A300 360° VIEW	AFF A220^[3]
Key Specifications
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
Per HA Pair Specifications (active-active dual controller)
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 Two-node switchless or switched cluster Clusters of HA pairs
	MetroCluster™ over TCP/IP configurations for synchronous replication 4-node: two 2-node switched or switchless clusters with Ethernet connections between DR sites		MetroCluster™ over TCP/IP configurations for synchronous replication in ONTAP 9.3 and later 4-node: two 2-node switched or switchless clusters with Ethernet connections between DR sites MetroCluster™ configurations for synchronous replication 2-nod 4-node: two 2-node switched or switchless clusters with fabric-attached (switched) storage (4 nodes total a 2-node active-active cluster at each site) 8-node (NAS-only): four 2-node switched or switchless clusters with fabric-attached (switched) storage (8 nodes total: a 4-node cluster at each site)	MetroCluster™ configurations for synchronous replication 2-node 4-node: two 2-node switched or switchless clusters with fabric-attached (switched) storage (4 nodes total a 2-node active-active cluster at each site) 8-node (NAS-only): four 2-node switched or switchless clusters with fabric-attached (switched) storage (8 nodes total: a 4-node cluster at each site)
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: Storage shelf: DS224C; 2U 24 drive, 12Gbps SAS SSDs: 15.3TB, 3.8TB, and 960GB Self-encrypting ^[2] SSDs: 3.8TB (all system models) and 800GB (AFF A300 and AFF A200 only) Supported when expanding system capacity or adding storage from other AFF systems: Storage shelf: DS224C; 2U 24 drive, 12Gbps SAS SSDs: 15.3TB, 3.8TB, and 960GB Self-encrypting SSDs: 3.8TB (all system models) and 800GB Storage shelf: DS2246; 2U 24 drive, 6Gbps SAS SSDs: 3.8TB, 1.6TB, 800GB, and 400GB Self-encrypting SSDs: 1.6TB and 800GB ^[2] Self-encrypting SSDs are AES-256, FIPS 140-2 compliant
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®)
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
Maximum port counts include both onboard and expansion card or module ports (per HA pair)
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
System Environment Specifications
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
Operating Acoustic Noise (at 23°C and at sea level)	Declared sound power (LwAd) per ISO 9296: 8.0 Bel Sound pressure (LpAm) (bystander positions): 62.8 dB Unified 100GbE with 32Gb FC dual-controller configuration with 48x 7.6 TB NVMe SSD	Declared sound power (LwAd) per ISO 9296: 8.2 Bel Sound pressure (LpAm) (bystander positions): 64.9 dB Unified 40GbE-32Gb FC dual-controller configura-tion with 24x 3.8TB SSD	Declared sound power (LwAd) per ISO 9296: 8.1 Bel Sound pressure (LpAm) (bystander positions): 65 dB Dual-controller chassis with 40GbE, 32GbE FC and 12Gb SAS I/O modules	Declared sound power (LwAd) per ISO 9296: 6.9 Bel Sound pressure (LpAm) (bystander positions): 53.1 dB Dual-controller chassis with 10GbE PCIe cards	Declared sound power (LwAd) per ISO 9296: 6.9 Bel Sound pressure (LpAm) (bystander positions): 51 dB 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
Systems Cabinet
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)

1. 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.
2. Self-encrypting SSDs are AES-256, FIPS 140-2 compliant
3. For information on AFF A200, the predecessor of AFF A220, click here.

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