Storage NetApp AFF A220A – With warranty and technical service for installation or support.
NetApp storage delivers industry-leading availability, storage density, and upgradeability to meet today’s growing and demanding IT needs.
These storage solutions offer the best price/performance and price/availability for environments of all types and sizes, from minimal I/O workloads (reference data, archiving, and disk-to-disk backup) to remote offices and distributed computing environments for large datacenter deployments.
Each NetApp storage solution is designed to be easy to deploy, secure, and reduce management costs while generating a rapid return on investment.
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NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) A220A Enterprise Storage System
AFF A-Series systems support end-to-end NVMe technologies, from NVMe-attached SSDs to NVMe front-end host connectivity over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC). These systems provide the industry’s lowest latency for an enterprise all-flash array, making them a superior choice for driving the most demanding workloads and AI/DL applications. With a simple software upgrade to modern NVMe/FC SAN infrastructure, you can generate more workloads with faster response times, without disruption or data migration.
Key benefits of NetApp AFF A220A
Accelerate your critical applications with the industry’s fastest end-to-end NVMe enterprise all-flash array.
Accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with the lowest latency.
Support 2x more workloads and cut application response time in half with a modern NVMe-based SAN infrastructure.
NetApp AFF-A220 UTA2 Storage System Technical Specifications
1. System Overview
- Model: AFF-A220 UTA2 (All-Flash FAS)
- Form Factor: Single Chassis
- Rack Units (U): 2U
- Configuration: High Availability (Dual Controller – HA)
2. Performance Specifications
- Processors:
- 2x 12 cores 64-bit @ 1.50 GHz
- Memory:
- 32 GB (single controller)
- 64 GB (HA configuration)
- NVRAM (Non-Volatile Memory):
- 4 GB (single)
- 8 GB (HA)
3. Storage Capacity
- Internal SSD Slots: 24x (2.5″ hot-swappable)
- Maximum Expansion:
- Total Disks Supported: 144 (internal + expansion)
- Maximum capacity: 4.40 PB (4.406 TB)
– Total Shelves Supported:
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– Option 1: 1 internal DS224C + 5 external DS224C OR – Option 2: ** 0 internal DS224C + 6 external DS224C |
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4. Connectivity
- Network Ports (per controller):
- 4x SFP+ (10GbE)
- 8x UTA2 SFP+ (16Gb)
- Storage Connectivity:
- 4x MiniSAS (12Gb) per controller
- Remote Management: Supported
5. Physical Dimensions
- Height: 3.35″ (8.5 cm) | 2U
- Width: 17.6″ (44.7 cm) (without flanges)
- Depth: 24.13″ (61.3 cm) (with cable management)
- Maximum Weight: 60.8 lb (27.6 kg)
6. Supported RAID Technologies
- RAID 4
- RAID-DP (RAID 6 – 2-disk fault tolerance)
- RAID-TEC (Superior Protection for SSDs)
7. Additional Specifications
- Type of SSDs: Flash-only (All-SSD)
- Operating system: ONTAP (optimized for fast and efficient storage)
- Scalability: Supports expansion with up to 144 SSDs in total (including additional shelves)
- Cooling and Power: Efficient in data centers (designed for low power and high performance)
Recommended Configuration Summary
| Component | Specification |
|---|---|
| Model | NetApp AFF-A220 UTA2 |
| Controllers | 2x (HA – High Availability) |
| Processor | 2x 12 cores @ 1.50 GHz |
| Memory (HA) | 64 GB |
| NVRAM (HA) | 8 GB |
| Internal SSDs | 24x (variable capacity) |
| Max. Total of SSDs | 144 (with expansion via DS224C) |
| 10GbE ports | 4x SFP+ (per controller) |
| UTA2 16Gb | 8x SFP+ (per controller) |
| Maximum Capacity | Up to 4.40 PB (high-density SSDs) |
Recommended Use Cases
✔ High Performance Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V)
✔ Critical Databases (Oracle, SQL Server)
✔ Big Data & Analytics Private/Hybrid
✔ Cloud Applications (Hadoop, SAP HANA)
✔ Backup and Rapid Recovery (SnapMirror/SnapVault)
NetApp AFF-A220 UTA2 Differentials
✅ Very high IOPS performance (ideal for random loads)
✅ Automatic Intelligent Tiering (OTP – ONTAP Flash Efficiency)
✅ Data reduction (compression + deduplication) for storage savings
✅ Protocol support (SAN/NAS) – FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB
✅ Simplified management via ONTAP System Manager
Smarter than your average
storage arrayDeep integration with your critical business applications enables storage provisioning in minutes. Industry-leading data reduction capabilities ensure maximum storage savings. And move your data wherever you need it, on-premises or in the cloud, seamlessly.
There’s powerful, and then there’s AFF A-Series powerful
Boost the performance of your enterprise and AI/ML applications with the industry’s lowest latency NVMe storage. Dual NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP connectivity support allows you to choose the best fit to maximize performance with easy integration into your existing SAN. Plus, scale performance and capacity non-disruptively.
No other array works harder to earn your trust
Meet your strictest SLAs with built-in, application-consistent data protection. Optimized Tier One SAN resiliency delivers zero data loss and zero downtime. Automatic ransomware protects against next-generation attacks with industry-leading security enhancement for an extra layer of detection and recovery. And SupportEdge optimizes your systems with simplified, predictive support services.
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