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NetApp FAS
storage arrays

The #1 customer-trusted,
cloud-optimized unified
storage platform
The challenge
Simplifying data management on premises Key benefits
and in the public cloud Secure and protect your data across
Organizations of all sizes are increasingly the hybrid cloud
challenged with streamlining their storage
• On your premises and in public clouds, we
operations. They need to store and back up their have you covered. Start small and scale
ever-growing volume of data while their budgets nondisruptively as your data requirements grow.
are shrinking. They need a solution that enables
• NetApp cloud integration lets you connect
them to meet their on-premises requirements
effortlessly to the cloud with leading integration to
while incorporating their public cloud strategy.
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others.
Flexibly adapt to your evolving
The solution business needs
Ideal balance of capacity and performance
storage that also simplifies your operations • Scale capacity and performance nondisruptively.
with best-in-class data management • Effortlessly integrate with public clouds.
NetApp® FAS storage arrays, powered by NetApp
• Optimize your storage infrastructure with
ONTAP® data management software, help you build
predictive analytics and proactive care
a storage infrastructure that is simple, smart, and
trusted. FAS systems provide the optimal balance Cost effective and proven for
diverse workloads
of capacity and performance for easy deployment
and operations while also having the flexibility • High volume of unstructured data (media and
to handle future growth and cloud integration. entertainment, medical imaging, EDA).
• Distributed enterprise business
With their highly available hardware and powerful applications; NAS and SAN consolidation
software, FAS systems cost effectively deliver (databases, virtual machines).
the data protection, security, and scalability • Disaster recovery target and
to safeguard your data and drive operational backup consolidation.
efficiency. Whether you’re running a small business,
a remote office, or a large enterprise, the FAS
family’s leading range of unified capabilities for
SAN, NAS, and object workloads make it an • Achieve high performance while minimizing energy
ideal solution for your general-purpose business usage with the Storage Efficiency Guarantee: If we
applications as well as for backup and retention. don’t meet your workload goals, we’ll make it right
at no cost to you.
Future-proof your investment
When you invest in NetApp FAS storage, Simple
you can future-proof your investment with Streamline your storage operations
NetApp Advance, our best-in-class storage When it comes to long-term investments in
ownership experience. Make the smart choice storage infrastructure, it’s crucial to focus
today and stay current with technological on simplifying your storage environment and
innovations while protecting your investment. reducing total cost of ownership. The FAS
• Eliminate the headache of tech refreshes family offers significant advantages:
with the Storage Lifecycle Program. Get a • Reduce costs and minimize your storage
new controller every 3 years with support- footprint: Automatically move your infrequently
managed updates included, or move to the used data to more cost-efficient object
cloud— whichever best meets your needs. storage—on premises or in the cloud—without
having to refactor your applications.
• Eliminate silos by supporting NAS, SAN, and
object workloads on one unified system.

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• Go from initial power-on to serving data in less than Optimize your storage with smart management
10 minutes with simple application provisioning. You don’t need to be a storage expert to use the
• Simplify ongoing management by upgrading broad range of capabilities in the NetApp storage
software or servicing storage with zero management portfolio.
downtime during regular business hours. • Simplify and speed up day-to-day management
• Accelerate business operations by leveraging activities with ONTAP System Manager. The new
NetApp Snapshot™ copies to instantly GUI provides quick insights into capacity, system
create writable clones for use in DevTest, health, networking, and performance history.
report generation, and analytics. • Streamline your management of multiple storage
• Increase the efficiency of your staff by using the deep clusters with NetApp Active IQ® Unified Manager.
integration of ONTAP with key business applications. Boost the efficiency of your staff by monitoring
petabytes of data from a single dashboard, and
receive notifications to quickly resolve issues
Smart
Scale and adapt to meet changing needs before they affect data services. The latest version
The FAS family has the flexibility to keep up with of Active IQ Unified Manager provides insights
your growing business as your capacity and and advice on security risks and compliance.
performance requirements change. Scale up by
adding capacity or by upgrading controllers. Scale Use the insights and recommendations derived
out by growing from 2 nodes up to a 24-node from predictive analytics and community
cluster with 176PB of capacity. Plus, you can cluster wisdom to optimize and protect your storage
different combinations of FAS and AFF models investments with Active IQ. Expose risk factors
to build out your environment by adding new and prevent problems before they affect your
generations of storage with the latest technologies. business. Benefit from insights and best-practice
recommendations derived from the collective
The FAS family also supports massive NAS wisdom of NetApp’s large user base. Implement
containers, which are easy to manage. With the this actionable intelligence to prevent problems,
NetApp FlexGroup feature of ONTAP 9, a single save time, and make smarter decisions when
namespace can grow to 20PB and 400 billion files managing your infrastructure with ONTAP System
while maintaining consistent high performance Manager and Active IQ Unified Manager.
and resilience.
Trusted
With nondisruptive addition and replacement of Secure company and customer data across
your hybrid cloud
storage systems and components, scaling occurs
without maintenance windows or the challenge of • Easily and efficiently safeguard your data
coordinating downtime across teams. And you can with autonomous ransomware protection.
perform your updates during regular work hours. • Protect against weak administrative passwords,
the leading cause of system compromises,
Integrate with the cloud by using multifactor authentication.
FAS systems running ONTAP are optimized for • Designate and validate authorized users
private and hybrid cloud by providing secure with role-based access control.
multitenancy, quality of service, nondisruptive • Use storage-level file security to prevent
operations, and easily defined tiers of service. unauthorized administrators from accessing
Plus, NetApp offers a number of options for or deleting crucial intellectual property.
extending your FAS system to the hybrid cloud
• Meet privacy standards, including
with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure,
GDPR, by cryptographically shredding
Google Cloud, and other leading cloud providers.
and sanitizing individual files.
Easily move your data between your on-premises
FAS system and cloud environments by using
NetApp SnapMirror ® data replication software.

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Protect against data loss and to deliver at least 99.9999% availability through
accelerate recovery a comprehensive approach that combines
FAS systems running ONTAP provide highly reliable hardware, innovative software,
comprehensive, integrated data protection to and sophisticated service analytics.
safeguard your data. Meet your requirements
for local backup with near-instant recovery by The new NetApp FAS2820 array is an entry-level
using space-efficient NetApp Snapshot copies. storage system that provides improved network
Achieve remote backup/recovery and disaster connectivity and up to a 50% performance
recovery with NetApp SnapMirror asynchronous increase over its predecessor. This array has an
replication. Plus, deep integration with leading intelligent modular design that enhances reliability,
backup applications makes management easier. availability, and serviceability. Service operations
are greatly simplified, I/O cards are easily
Achieve unparalleled availability and serviced, and controllers can be replaced without
nondisruptive operations disturbing I/O cabling. Additionally, this design
NetApp MetroCluster™, SnapMirror Business enables nondisruptive, in-chassis upgrades, which
Continuity, and SnapMirror Synchronous simplifies and speeds up servicing and minimizes
technologies expand data protection to the risk of errors. The design also increases
eliminate risk of data loss by synchronously flexibility, streamlines maintenance, and extends
mirroring data between locations for continuous the life of the platform, reducing the disruption
availability of information. Storage arrays can and expense that come with tech refreshes.
exist in a single data center or in two different
data centers that are located across a campus, NetApp FAS Storage Arrays:
across a metropolitan area, or in different cities. • FAS9500. Designed with a modular architecture
No matter what happens, your data can be that is optimized for serviceability and availability.
protected from loss, and with MetroCluster and Ideal for large, consolidated environments.
SnapMirror Business Continuity, it is continuously • FAS8700. High-end system that is optimized
available to meet business-critical needs. for high capacity and performance to
consolidate multiple business workloads.
FAS systems are engineered to meet demanding
availability requirements. All models are designed

Harness the Power of ONTAP to Simplify and Accelerate Your Storage Environment:

Reduce costs with leading data reduction technologies and built-in

Storage efficiency configuration efficiencies.

Business continuity Make sure that your critical applications stay online with continuous data availability.

Nondisruptive Eliminate business disruptions during maintenance and upgrades.

operations

Performance and Improve performance for consolidated workloads, and scale up or scale out
scalability capacity and performance.

Cloud Integration Easily move your data between your on-premises FAS system and cloud environments.

Safeguard your critical data with anti-ransomware protection for both preemption
Security and post-attack recovery.

Compliance Meet strict governance and data retention policies.

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• FAS8300. Designed for a wide range of
midrange deployments that need a balance About NetApp
of capacity, performance, and prices. In a world full of generalists, NetApp is a specialist.
• FAS2820. Optimized for small and midsize We’re focused on one thing, helping your business
businesses that require simple deployment and get the most out of your data. NetApp brings the
operations. Ideal for high-capacity use cases. enterprise-grade data services you rely on into
the cloud, and the simple flexibility of cloud into
• FAS2750. Optimized for small and midsize
the data center. Our industry-leading solutions
businesses that require simple deployment
work across diverse customer environments
and operations. Supports up to 24 internal
and the world’s biggest public clouds.
drives plus external storage shelves.

As a cloud-led, data-centric software company,

Get it right from the start by using NetApp
only NetApp can help build your unique data fabric,
expertise and tools
simplify and connect your cloud, and securely
Realize the most from your investment by
deliver the right data, services, and applications
engaging professional services experts from
to the right people—anytime, anywhere.
NetApp or our Services Certified partners.
When moving data into your new environment,
smooth the transition and mitigate risks by using
proven NetApp methodologies, tools, and best
practices. Learn more at netapp.com/services.

FAS9500 FAS8700 FAS8300 FAS2820 FAS2750

Maximum scale-out Up to 24 nodes Up to 24 nodes Up to 24 nodes Up to 24 nodes Up to 24 nodes

(12 HA pairs) (12 HA pairs) (12 HA pairs) (12 HA pairs) (12 HA pairs)

Maximum drives 1440 1440 720 144 144

per HA pair

Maximum raw capacity 14.7PB 14.7PB 11.5PB 2.3PB 1.2PB

per HA pair

Controller chassis 8U 4U 4U 2U/12 internal 2U/24 internal

form factor drives drives

OS version ONTAP 9.10.1P3 ONTAP 9.7 RC1 ONTAP 9.7 RC1 ONTAP 9.4 RC1 ONTAP 9.4 RC1
and later and later and later and later and later

Storage protocols FC, FCoE, iSCSI, FC, iSCSI, NFS, FC, iSCSI, NFS, FC, FCoE, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, iSCSI,
supported NFS, pNFS, CIFS/ pNFS, CIFS/ pNFS, CIFS/ NFS, pNFS, CIFS/ NFS, pNFS, CIFS/
SMB, AWS S3 SMB, AWS S3 SMB, AWS S3 SMB, AWS S3 SMB, AWS S3

Shelves and media See netapp.com for current information.

Table 1) NetApp FAS technical specifications Note: All HA pair specifications are for dual controller, active-active
configurations.

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Maximum raw capacity depends on the drive offerings.
For current information, see netapp.com.

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