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E2800 hybrid-flash storage: Grow together

Rapid, unpredictable growth? First of all, congrats. Now let’s talk right-sizing your storage. Performance-optimized for mixed workloads, our E2800 is just the answer for streamlining your IT infrastructure and driving down costs.

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Why NetApp E2800 hybrid-flash storage?

Affordable performance and simplicity for all

NetApp® E2800 storage systems optimize price and performance to support the mixed workloads of small- and medium-sized businesses. A low acquisition cost and even lower cost of ownership make them the perfect choice for any organization facing rapid, unpredictable growth.

Featuring impressive IOPS and throughput, the E2800 helps you extract value from your data and take action much faster. And an intuitive, on-box graphical interface simplifies configuration and maintenance while providing enterprise-level storage capabilities.

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Primary use cases

From big data analytics and video surveillance to high performance computing (HPC) and backup and recovery, our E2800 is ready to give your data center more bang for its buck.

Big data analytics

Achieve consistent high performance, access your data more frequently and scale with compute and storage decoupled.

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Video surveillance

Meet the challenges of increased surveillance-data throughput, retention, and retrieval.

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High performance computing

Optimize performance for petabyte-scale, data-intensive applications.

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Backup and recovery

Get cost-effective, reliable, fast storage for backing up heterogeneous environments.

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Gain affordable performance and simplicity

Put hybrid flash to work on a wide range of mixed workloads. Gain insights and make decisions fast.

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Run dedicated apps on E-Series

Examine the compelling data-protection and reliability benefits of NetApp® E-Series.

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E2860 System Shelf
DE460C Disk Shelf 		E2824 System Shelf
DE224C Disk Shelf 		E2812 System Shelf
DE212C Disk Shelf
Key Specifications
Type Hybrid storage array Hybrid storage array Hybrid storage array
Form factor 4U, 60 drives (both 2.5" and 3.5") 2U, 24 drives (2.5" only) 2U, 12 drives (3.5" and 2.5” SSDs)
Maximum raw capacity 720TB system shelf
2.16PB with disk shelves
(using 12TB drives)		 43TB system shelf
173TB with disk shelves
(using 1.8TB drives)		 144TB system shelf
576TB with disk shelves
(using 12TB drives)
Maximum drivesMax of 180 drives. Max of 4 shelves are supported. 180 (3x 4U60 shelves) 96 (4 x 2U24 shelves) 48 (4 x 2U12 shelves)
Drives supported NL-SAS
• 4TB, 8TB, 12TB
• 10TB FIPS

SAS
• 1.2TB, 1.8TB
• 1.8TB FIPS

SSD
• 800GB, 1.6TB,
3.8TB, 7.6TB,
15.3TB
• 1.6TB FIPS
• 3.8TB FDE		 SAS
• 1.2TB, 1.8TB
• 1.8TB FIPS

SSD
• 800GB, 1.6TB,
3.8TB, 7.6TB,
15.3TB
• 1.6TB FIPS
• 3.8TB FDE		 NL-SAS
• 4TB, 8TB, 12TB
• 10TB FIPS

SSD
• 800GB
• 1.6TB FIPS
System memory 16GB/64 GB64GB system memory is supported with included host I/O ports of either 16Gb FC or 10Gb iSCSI (optical).
Included host I/O ports 4 ports 16Gb FC or
4 ports 10Gb iSCSI (optical) or
4 ports 10Gb iSCSI (copper)
Optional host I/O ports 8 ports 32Gb FC
8 ports 25Gb iSCSI
8 ports 16Gb FC or 10Gb iSCSI (optical)
4 ports 10Gb iSCSI (copper)
8 ports 12Gb SAS
System management SANtricity System Manager 11.50 (web-based, on-box)
High-availability features Dual active controller with automated I/O path failover
Automatic load balancing and path connectivity monitoring
Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP) technology and traditional RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10
Redundant, hot-swappable storage controllers, disk drives, power supplies, and fans
Automatic rebuild after a drive failure
Mirrored data cache with battery-backed destage to flash
Data Assurance (T10 PI ANSI standard to ensure data integrity)
Proactive drive health monitoring that identifies problems before they create issues
NetApp Active IQ
Online SANtricity OS upgrades and drive firmware upgrades
Online configuration changes
Proactive drive health monitoring that identifies problems before they create issues
Up to six-nines availability (with appropriate configuration and service plans)
Host operating systems Apple macOS
CentOS Linux
IBM AIX
Microsoft Windows Server
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Oracle Enterprise Linux
Oracle Solaris
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ubuntu Linux
VMware ESX
Included software features SANtricity synchronous and asynchronous mirroringSynchronous mirroring is supported with FC only, and asynchronous mirroring is supported with FC and iSCSI.
SANtricity volume copy
SANtricity thin provisioning
SANtricity Snapshot&trade
SANtricity SSD cache
SANtricity Cloud Connector
Security features Drive encryption (FDE/FIPS) supportHardware and software for at-rest data encryption are not available in certain countries, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and other Eurasian Customs Union countries.
Native encryption key management
External encryption key management (KMIP-compliant)
Role-based access control and audit log
LDAP support
SAML support to enable Multi-Factor Authentication
Common Criteria certification in progress
System capabilities Dynamic Disk Pools and Traditional RAID coexistence
Dynamic volume expansion
Dynamic capacity expansion for DDP or RAID volume group
Dynamic capacity contraction (DDP only)
Dynamic RAID-level or segment size migration (traditional RAID only)
Embedded system event monitoring
Full Stripe Write Acceleration (FSWA) to accelerate system write performance (for qualifying workloads)
Management enablers NetApp SANtricity Performance App for Splunk EnterpriseAvailable from Splunk’s website.
VMware vSphere Storage APIs—Array Integration (VAAI)
Microsoft Windows Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
Open management NetApp SANtricity Web Services embedded REST API
NetApp PowerShell Toolkit APIs
NetApp SANtricity Secure CLI
System maximums Hosts: 128
Volumes: 512
Maximum DDP capacity per system: 6PB
Maximum DDP volume size: 2PB
Maximum RAID volume size: 30 drives
Snapshot copies: 512
Mirrors: 32
DIMENSIONS E2860 System Shelf
DE460C Disk Shelf 		E2824 System Shelf
DE224C Disk Shelf 		E2812 System Shelf
DE212C Disk Shelf
Height 6.97” (17.70cm) 3.47” (8.81cm) 3.47” (8.81cm)
Width 19” (48.26cm) 19" (48.26cm) 19" (48.26cm)
Depth 38.25” (97.16cm) 19.27” (48.95cm) 21.1" (53.59cm)
WeightSystem weights will vary depending on drive count and type. E2812, DE212C weight and power numbers are based on 6/8TB NL-SAS drives. E2860: 225lb (102kg)
DE460C: 247.4lb (112.2kg)		 51lb (23kg) 62lb (28kg)
POWER E2860 System Shelf E2824 System Shelf E2812 System Shelf
Typical Maximum Typical Maximum Typical Maximum
kVA The E2860 nominal voltage range is between 200VAC and 240VAC. The E2812 and E2824 nominal voltage range is between 100VAC and 240VAC. 1.284 1.543 0.503 0.674 0.451 0.568
Watts 1,256 1,537 501.4 673.6 451.3 565.4
BTU 4,297 5,258 1,715 2,303.7 1,543.4 1,933.7

DE460C Disk Shelf DE224C Disk Shelf DE212C Disk Shelf
Typical Maximum Typical Maximum Typical Maximum
kVA The DE460C nominal voltage range is between 200VAC and 240VAC. The DE212C and DE224C nominal voltage range is between 100VAC and 240VAC. 1.203 1.466 0.302 0.45 0.25 0.344
Watts 1,174 1,460 298.8 451.9 248.7 343.7
BTU 4,015 4,994 1,022.15 1,545.5 850.55 1,175.5

Multiple business advantages

Discover the benefits NetApp storage can bring to your business.
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Optimized for performance

The E-Series hybrid-flash arrays provide 2 to 3 times improvements in IOPS for read-intensive applications.

Enterprise-proven platform

Benefit from nearly 1 million systems. Hybrid-flash–optimized E-Series arrays are built to work in the most demanding environments.

Advanced data protection

Guard against data loss and downtime events—locally and long distance—with advanced data protection.

Ease of use and configuration

Easily install and administer E-Series storage systems using powerful on-box, web-based NetApp® SANtricity® software.

Software

Standard SANtricity software features are available with every E-Series storage system.
Software Features
System management SANtricity System Manager 11.50
High-availability features Dual active controller with automated I/O path failover
Automatic load balancing and path connectivity monitoring
Dynamic Disk Pools technology and traditional RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10
Redundant, hot-swappable storage controllers, disk drives, power supplies, and fans
Automatic rebuild after a drive failure
Mirrored data cache with battery-backed destage to flash
Data Assurance (T10 PI ANSI standard to ensure data integrity)
Proactive drive health monitoring that identifies problems before they create issues
Online SANtricity OS upgrades and drive firmware upgrades
Online configuration changes
Host operating systems Apple macOS
CentOS Linux
IBM AIX
Microsoft Windows Server
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Oracle Enterprise Linux
Oracle Solaris
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ubuntu Linux
VMware ESX
Included software features SANtricity synchronous and asynchronous mirroring
SANtricity volume copy
SANtricity thin provisioning
SANtricity Cloud Connector
SANtricity Snapshot
SANtricity SSD cache
Security features Drive encryption (FDE/FIPS) support[1]
Native encryption key management
External encryption key management (KMIP-compliant)
Role-based access control and audit log
LDAP support
SAML support to enable Multi-Factor Authentication
Common Criteria certification in progress
System capabilities Dynamic Disk Pools and Traditional RAID coexistence
Dynamic volume expansion
Dynamic capacity expansion for DDP or RAID volume group
Dynamic capacity contraction (DDP only)
Dynamic RAID-level or segment size migration (traditional RAID only)
Embedded system event monitoring
Full Stripe Write Acceleration (FSWA) to accelerate system write performance (for qualifying workloads)
Open management NetApp SANtricity Web Services embedded REST APIs
NetApp PowerShell Toolkit APIs
NetApp SANtricity Secure CLI
Management enablers NetApp SANtricity Performance App for Splunk Enterprise[2]
VMware vSphere Storage APIs—Array Integration (VAAI)
Microsoft Windows Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
  • [1] Hardware and software for at-rest data encryption are not available in certain countries, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and other Eurasian Customs Union countries.
  • [2] Available from Splunk’s website.
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