Scale and adapt to meet changing needs

Optimize and accelerate your storage environment as performance

and capacity requirements change. Scale up by adding capacity,

adding more flash acceleration, and upgrading controllers. Scale

out by growing from 2 nodes up to a 24-node cluster with 57PB

of capacity, including combinations of different FAS and

AFF models.

FAS8200 systems also support massive NAS containers, which

are easy to manage. With the NetApp FlexGroup feature of

ONTAP 9, a single namespace can grow to 20PB and 400

billion files while maintaining consistent high performance

and resiliency.

With nondisruptive addition and replacement of storage systems

and components, scaling occurs without maintenance windows

or the challenge of coordinating downtime across teams.

Perform your updates during regular work hours.

Achieve unparalleled availability and nondisruptive operations

FAS8200 enterprise storage is engineered to meet demanding

availability requirements. All models are designed to deliver

99.9999% availability or greater through a comprehensive

approach that combines highly reliable hardware, innovative

software, and sophisticated service analytics.

Software and firmware updates, hardware repair and replacement,

load balancing, and tech refresh happen without planned

downtime. Plus, NetApp Integrated Data Protection technologies

protect your data, accelerate recovery, and integrate with leading

backup applications for easier management.

NetApp MetroCluster™ and SnapMirror Synchronous technologies

expand data protection to eliminate risk of data loss by synchronously

mirroring data between locations for continuous availability of

information. Storage arrays can exist in a single data center or

in two different data centers that are located across a campus,

across a metropolitan area, or in different cities. No matter

what happens, your data can be protected from loss and, with

MetroCluster, it’s continuously available to meet the most

business-critical needs.

Optimize your NetApp systems with the predictive analytics and

proactive support of NetApp Active IQ®. Fueled by NetApp’s

massive user base, Active IQ artificial intelligence and machine

learning create actionable insights that help you prevent problems,

optimize your configuration, save time, and make smarter decisions.

Get more from existing storage array investments

Simplify your IT operations and deliver more value from existing

third-party arrays by using them as additional storage capacity

behind FAS8200 systems. FlexArray® virtualization software run-

ning on FAS8200 extends ONTAP to include storage capacity from

EMC, Hitachi, HPE, IBM, and NetApp E-Series arrays. Consolidate

management of your existing storage to increase efficiency, add

support for SAN and NAS workloads, and provide superior data

management functionality.

Optimize hybrid cloud deployment

Organizations today are focusing on service-oriented IT

architectures where cloud IT models are leveraged to enhance

return on investment and assets. FAS8200 running ONTAP

is optimized for private and hybrid cloud with secure mul-

titenancy, quality of service (QoS), nondisruptive operations,

and easily defined tiers of service. NetApp offers a number of

options for extending your FAS8200 to the hybrid cloud with

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud

Platform (GCP) and other leading cloud providers.

You can easily burst capacity to public clouds without typical

capex constraints with NetApp Cloud Volumes Service, the first

enterprise-class cloud-native file service for AWS and GCP, or

Azure NetApp Files for Microsoft Azure. Ideal for data-intensive

workloads such as analytics and DevOps, these cloud data services

combine elastic, on-demand storage as a service from NetApp with

ONTAP data management in a fully managed offering.

For those seeking advanced data services for cloud block

or object storage services such as AWS EBS or S3, or Azure

storage, Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides data management

between your on-premises environment and the public cloud

with a single, common view. Running in AWS or Azure as an

on-demand instance, Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides the

Figure 1) Standardize data management across architectures with a rich set of enterprise data services.

ONTAP 9

Common Data Management

Storage Arrays

AFF + FAS

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Heterogeneous

FlexArray

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Software-Defined

Storage (SDS)

ONTAP

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Near Cloud

NetApp Private

Storage (NPS)

Cloud

Cloud Volumes

ONTAP

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