AFF A800A

NetApp AFF A800: Leveraging the Best of the Hybrid Cloud

Looking to power your data-intensive applications like artificial intelligence, deep learning, and big data analytics? Or scale your massive file workloads used in the media and entertainment and EDA industries? The AFF A800 answers your call. With its ultra-low 100us latency and up to 300GB/s throughput, you can unleash the power of your data with lightning speed, no matter where your data resides, on premises, in any cloud, or anywhere in between. .

Incredibly fast, surprisingly elegant
Powered by industry-leading data management software — ONTAP, discover how to enable new data-driven applications and create opportunities for innovation in your organization. With an elegant form factor, the AFF A800 also saves a lot of data center space and carbon footprint. Now that's a win-win-win!

AFF A800 hardware technical specifications

Specifications per cluster
Maximum expansion	2–24 nodes (12 HA pairs)
Max SSDs	2.880
Maximum effective capacity	316,3PB

Specifications per system (dual active-active controller)
controller form factor	4U with 48 SSD slots
PCIe expansion slots	8
FC target ports (32 Gb auto select)	32
FC target ports (16 Gb auto select)	32
FCoE, UTA2 destination ports	n / a
100GbE ports (40GbE auto-select)	20
25GbE ports (10GbE with automatic range selection)	16
10GbE ports	32
10Gbase-T (1GbE with auto-ranging)	n / a
12Gb/6Gb SAS ports	n / a
Supported storage network	NFSv4/RDMA, NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, Amazon S3
operating system version	ONTAP 9.7 RC1 or later
Shelves and media	NS224 (2U, 24 units, SFF NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24-drive, 2,5″ SFF); DS2246 (2U, 24-drive, 2,5″, SFF)
Supported host/client operating system	Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Linux, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, macOS, VMware, ESX