AFF A-Series systems support end-to-end NVMe technologies, from NVMe-attached SSDs to front-end NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) host connectivity. These systems deliver 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 the modern NVMe/FC SAN infrastructure, you can drive more workloads with faster response times, without disruption or data migration.
Speed up your critical applications with the industry’s fastest end-to-end NVMe enterprise all-flash array.
Accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with lowest latency.
Support 2 times more workloads and cut application response time in half with a modern NVMe-based SAN infrastructure.
| AFF A400 Technical specification | |
|---|---|
| Maximum scale-out | 2–24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Maximum SSDs | 5,760 |
| Maximum effective capacity1 | 702.7PB |
| Per-System Specifications (Active-Active Dual Controller) | |
| Controller form factor | 4U |
| PCIe expansion slots | 10 |
| FC target ports (32Gb autoranging) | 24 |
| FC target ports (16Gb autoranging) | 32 (with FC mezzanine card) |
| FCoE target ports, UTA2 | n/a |
| 100GbE ports (40GbE autoranging) | 16 |
| 40GbE ports (10GbE autoranging) | n/a |
| 25GbE ports | 16 |
| 10GbE ports | 32 |
| 10Gbase-T (1GbE autoranging) | 16 |
| 12Gb/6Gb SAS ports | 32 |
| Storage networking supported | NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB |
| OS version | ONTAP 9.7RC1 or later |
| Shelves and media | NS224 (2U; 24 drives,2.5” SFF NVMe); DS224C(2U; 24 drives, 2.5” SFF),DS2246 (2U; 24 drives,2.5” SFF) |
| Host/client OS supported | Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Linux, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS, VMware, ESX |
| Wattage | Typical: 1258Worst : 1580 |
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