AFF A800 All-Flash Storage Array, NetApp AFF A-Series

AFF A800: Blazing speed, any data, anywhere.

Looking to power your data-hungry applications such as artificial intelligence, deep learning, and big data analytics? Or to scale your massive file workloads used in the Media and Entertainment, and EDA industries? The AFF A800 answers your call. With its ultra low latency of 100us and up to 300 GB/s throughput, you can unleash the power of your data with lighting speed, no matter where your data lives, on-prem, in any clouds, or anywhere in between.

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AFF A800 hardware technical specifications

Per-cluster specifications
Maximum scale-out	2–24 nodes (12 HA pairs)
Maximum SSDs	2,880
Maximum effective capacity	316.3PB

Per-system specifications (active-active dual controller)
Controller form factor	4U with 48 SSD slots
PCIe expansion slots	8
FC target ports (32Gb autoranging)	32
FC target ports (16Gb autoranging)	32
FCoE target ports, UTA2	n/a
100GbE ports (40GbE autoranging)	20
25GbE ports (10GbE autoranging)	16
10GbE ports	32
10Gbase-T (1GbE autoranging)	n/a
12Gb/6Gb SAS ports	n/a
Storage networking supported	NFSv4/RDMA, NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, Amazon S3
OS version	ONTAP 9.7 RC1 or later
Shelves and media	NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24 drives, 2.5" SFF); DS2246 (2U, 24 drives, 2.5", SFF)
Host/client OS supported	Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Linux, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, macOS, VMware, ESX

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