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EF-Series all-flash arrays: Microsecond response for your demanding applications
When you need to supercharge performance-sensitive workloads like real-time analytics, HPC, and databases, the price-to-performance benefit of NetApp® EF-Series all-flash arrays speaks volumes. They deliver microsecond response to your most demanding apps, maximum uptime, and six-nines reliability.
Why NetApp EF-Series arrays?
Say hello to faster, more actionable results
Big data analytics. High-performance computing. Demanding databases. NetApp EF-Series all-flash arrays are built for today’s giant workloads (and the even bigger ones to come).
EF-Series arrays combine impressive IOPS, microsecond response times, and incredible throughput capacity, so your most demanding apps never miss a beat. In addition, the EF-Series is powered by NetApp® SANtricity software to give you extensive configuration flexibility, custom performance tuning, and complete control over data placement. In other words, a trifecta of data management brilliance.
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For the third year in a row, NetApp has been recognized by Gartner as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Primary StorageJeff Vogel, Roger W. Cox, Joseph Unsworth, Santhosh Rao, "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage," October 11,2021.
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High availability to keep you moving forward
Maximize uptime using a fully redundant, six-9s modular 2U enterprise-grade building-block system with automated failover and advanced monitoring. Benefit from 1 million SANtricity® systems deployed. Grow seamlessly to 1.8PB. Proactive system health monitoring with flexible notification options and visibility in NetApp Active IQ.
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Primary use cases
From big data analytics to high performance computing (HPC), and all your heavy-workloads in-between, EF-Series all-flash arrays are ready, willing, and able for whatever action comes.
- Big data analytics
- High performance computing
Big data analytics
Achieve consistent high performance, access your data more frequently, and scale with compute and storage decoupled.
High performance computing
Optimize high performance computing (HPC) performance for petabyte-scale, data-intensive applications.
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| NetApp® EF600 | NetApp® EF300 | |||
| Maximum IOPSPeak system performance | 2,000,000 IOPS | 670,000 IOPS | ||
| Average Latency |
<100µs up to 200,000 4K random write IOPS <100µs up to 300,000 4K random read IOPS <260µs up to 2,000,000 4K random read IOPS |
<100µs up to 50,000 4K random write IOPS <100µs up to 150,000 4K random read IOPS <200µs up to 670,000 4K random read IOPS |
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| Sustained throughputPeak system performance | Up to 44GBps | Up to 20GBps | ||
| Maximum drives in base controller enclosureThe base system can be configured with a minimum of 6 SSDs. | 24 | 24 | ||
| Maximum raw capacity in base controller enclosure | 367TB | 367TB | ||
| Drive types supported | SSD (NVMe) SED: 1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB FIPS: 3.8TB Non-SED: 1.9TB, 3.8TB |
SSD (NVMe) SED: 1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB FIPS: 3.8TB Non-SED: 1.9TB, 3.8TB |
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| Expansion options | n/a | SAS Expansion: Up to 240 NL-SAS HDDs or Up to 96 SAS SSDsCombination of NL-SAS and SAS SSDs not to exceed 240 drive slots total.SAS SSD options are same as EF570/EF280. NL-SAS HDD capacity options range from 4TB to 18TB. |
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| Maximum raw capacity with expansion | n/a | 4.7PB hybrid, or 1.8PB all-SSD | ||
| Form factor | Base system: 2U/24 | Base system: 2U/24 Expansion shelves: 4U/60 and 2U/12 hybrid; 2U/24 all-flash |
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| System memory | 32GB, 128GB | 32GB | ||
| Host I/O ports | 4 ports 200Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE 4 ports 200Gb iSER/IB 8 ports 100Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe.RoCE 8 ports 100Gb iSER/IB, SRP/IB 16 ports 32 Gb NVMe/FC 16 ports 32Gb SCSI FC 16 ports 25Gb iSCSI |
NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE 4 ports 100Gb iSER/IB, SRP/IB 8 ports 32 Gb NVMe/FC 8 ports 32Gb SCSI FC 8 ports 25Gb iSCSI |
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| System management | SANtricity System Manager(web-based, on-box) | SANtricity System Manager (web-based, on-box) | ||
| High-availability features (all platforms) |
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 NetApp Active IQ Online SANtricity OS upgrades and drive firmware upgrades Online configuration changes Six-nines availability (with appropriate configuration and service plans) |
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| Security features |
Self-encrypting drives support (SED/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/LDAPS for user authentication SAML support to enable Multi-Factor Authentication Common Criteria certified |
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| 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) |
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| Included software features |
SANtricity volume copy SANtricity Snapshot Remote Storage Volumes |
SANtricity volume copy SANtricity Snapshot Remote Storage Volumes |
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| Management enablers |
SANtricity Unified Manager for enterprise management of up to 500 systems NetApp SANtricity Storage Plugin for vCenter NetApp SANtricity Performance App for Splunk Enterprise VMware vSphere Storage APIs—Array Integration (VAAI) Microsoft Windows Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) |
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| Open management and orchestration |
NetApp SANtricity Web Services embedded REST API NetApp SANtricity Secure CLI Ansible® modules for E-Series NetApp PowerShell Toolkit |
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| System maximums |
Max hosts: 1024 Max partitions: 512 Volumes: 2,048 Maximum DDP volume size: 2PiB Maximum RAID volume size: 30 drives Snapshot copies: 2,048 |
Max hosts: 512 Max partitions: 256 Volumes: 1,024 Maximum DDP volume size: 2PiB Maximum RAID volume size: 30 drives Snapshot copies: 1,024 |
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| Dimension and Weights | EF600 Base System | EF300 Base System | Flash Expansion for EF300 (DE224C) | |
| Height | 3.43” (8.7cm) | 3.43” (8.7cm) | 3.47" (8.81cm) | |
| Width | 19.02” (48.3cm) | 19.02” (48.3cm) | 19" (48.26cm) | |
| Depth | 17.6” (44.7cm) | 17.6” (44.7cm) | 19.27" (48.95cm) | |
| WeightSystem weights will vary depending on drive count and type. | 53.66lb (24.34kg) | 53.66lb (24.34kg) | 46.896lb (21.27kg) | |
| Power and Cooling | EF600 Base System | EF300 Base System | Expansion for EF300 (DE224C) | |
| kVA |
Typical: 0.979 Maximum: 1.128 |
Typical: 0.646 Maximum: 0.872 |
Typical: 0.265 Maximum: 0.379 |
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| Watts |
Typical: 979.09 Maximum: 1128 |
Typical: 643 Maximum: 870 |
Typical: 262.76 Maximum: 375.12 |
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| BTU |
Typical: 3348 Maximum: 3859.128 |
Typical: 2194 Maximum: 2970 |
Typical: 896.57 Maximum: 1,279.96 |
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Maximum efficiency
Eliminate overprovisioning. Reduce costs dramatically by cutting space, power, and cooling—up to 95%.
Modular scalability
Support for up to 1.8PB of raw capacity in modular 2U building blocks delivers superior data access with low-latency performance.
Market-proven platform
Benefit from 1 million systems—flash-optimized fourth-generation EF-Series arrays are designed 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.
Software
NetApp SANtricity software lets you achieve maximum performance and utilization of your EF-Series all-flash arrays.
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