Flash forward to the future with the new NetApp ASA systems
When it comes to deploying dedicated SAN solutions for your most important workloads, you need guaranteed availability that you can depend on and storage that's easy to manage.
NetApp® ASA systems maintain high data availability and keep critical applications running with symmetric high-availability architecture—backed by NetApp’s Six Nines Availability Guarantee. Safeguard data with built-in, application-consistent data protection, and achieve business continuity with synchronous disaster recovery.
With NetApp and ALEF, the future of flash is available today.
NetApp ASA systems are designed as simple, high-performance SAN storage for mission-critical applications, databases, and VMware infrastructure. They provide built-in, integrated data protection and unparalleled hybrid cloud connectivity.
Achieve blazing-fast response times across business-critical applications with ASA systems. As a leader in NVMe-oF technology, NetApp supports both NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP in the ASA A-Series, providing consistent low latency and millions of IOPS in a cluster.
NetApp ASA is now a part of our portfolio based on NetApp ONTAP, so you can forget the complexity of bespoke infrastructure silos.
NetApp ASA systems use the same API, CLI, and System Manager GUI that our NetApp AFF and FAS arrays use. That means your team only needs to learn one set of skills and write one set of scripts. Any automation that you build for your unstructured data environment can seamlessly apply to your block environment, too.
ASA systems help you invest with confidence for today and tomorrow by delivering:
Superior performance. Deliver exceptional performance to improve customer experience and reduce time to results.
Continuous availability. Achieve continuous access to business-critical data delivered by symmetric high-availability with fast failover—backed by our Six Nines Availability Guarantee.
Streamlined efficiency. Optimize your storage environment with industry-leading effective capacity that couples leading raw-to-usable conversion with the NetApp 4:1 Storage Efficiency Guarantee for SAN workloads.
ASA technical specifications
| ASA A900 | ASA A800 | ASA A400 | ASA A250 | ASA A150 | |
| Maximum scale-out | 12 nodes | 12 nodes | 12 nodes | 12 nodes | 12 nodes |
| Maximum SSDs | 2,880 | 1,440 | 2,880 | 288 | 432 |
| Maximum effective capacity1 | 351PB | 158PB | 351PB | 26PB | 13PB |
Per-system specifications (active-active) dual controller.
| Controller chassis form factor | 8U | 4U; 48 internal SSD slots |
4U | 2U; 24 internal SSD slots |
2U; 24 internal SSD slots |
| PCIe expansion slots | 20 | 8 | 10 | 4 | n/a |
| FC target ports (32Gb autoranging) | 64 | 32 | 24 | Up to 16 | n/a |
| FC target ports (16Gb autoranging) | 64 | 32 | 32 (with FC mezzanine card) |
n/a | n/a |
| FCoE target ports, UTA2 | 64 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 8 |
| 100GbE ports (40Gbe autoranging) | 32 | 20 | 16 | 4[2] | n/a |
| 40GbE ports (can be 4x 10Gbe) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 25GbE ports (10GbE autoranging) | 64 | 16 | 16 | Up to 16 | n/a |
| 10GbE ports | 64 | 32 | 32 | n/a | 4 |
| 10Gbase-T (1GbE autoranging) | 64 | n/a | 16 | 4 | n/a |
| 12Gb/6Gb SAS ports | 64 | n/a | 32 | 4 | 4 |
| Storage networking supported | NVMe/TCP, NVMe/ FC, FC, iSCSI |
NVMe/TCP, NVMe/ FC, FC, iSCSI |
NVMe/TCP, NVMe/ FC, FC, iSCSI |
NVMe/TCP, NVMe/ FC, FC, iSCSI |
NVMe/TCP, FC, iSCSI |
| OS version | ONTAP 9.13.1 GA or later |
ONTAP 9.13.1 GA or later |
ONTAP 9.13.1 GA or later |
ONTAP 9.13.1 GA or later |
ONTAP 9.13.1 GA or later |
| Shelves and media | NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24 drives, 2.5” SFF); DS2246 (2U, 24 drives, 2.5”, SFF) |
NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24 drives, 2.5” SFF); DS2246 (2U, 24 drives, 2.5”, SFF) |
NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24 drives, 2.5” SFF); DS2246 (2U, 24 drives, 2.5”, SFF) |
NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF NVMe); DS224C (2U, 24 drives, 2.5” SFF) |
DS224C (2U, 24 drives, 2.5” SFF), DS2246 (2U, 24 drives, 2.5”, SFF) |
| Power consumption (median) | 2450W (with NS224) | 1463W | 890W (with DS224C) 1240W (with NS224) |
491W | 300W[3] |
Host/client OS supported Windows Server, Linux, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, VMware
1. Effective capacity based on 5:1 storage efficiency ratios with the maximum number of SSDs installed; space savings vary depending on workload and use cases.
2. The AFF A250 only supports 100GbE ports on external NVMe storage.
3. Estimate under typical conditions
ASA software
| Data access protocols | • FC, iSCSI, NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, FCoE |
| High availability | • Symmetric active-active host connectivity • Nondisruptive maintenance, upgrade, and scale-out clustering • Multisite resilience for continuous data access |
| Storage efficiency | • In-line data compression, deduplication, and compaction • Space-efficient LUN and volume cloning • Automatic data tiering |
| Data management | • Intuitive on-board GUI, REST APIs, and automation integration • AI-informed predictive analytics and corrective action • Quality of service (QoS) workload control • Easy provisioning and data management from market-leading host operating systems, hypervisors, and application software |
| Data protection | • Application-consistent NetApp Snapshot copies for backup and restore • Integrated remote backup and disaster recovery • Synchronous zero-data-loss replication • Tamper-proof Snapshot copies • Business continuity across sites |
| Security and compliance | • Multifactor admin access • In-flight and data-at-rest encryption • Regulatory-compliant data retention • Multiadmin verification before executing sensitive commands |
| Cloud integration | • Seamlessly tier, back up, replicate, and cache data to private and public clouds • Move data between major public cloud services |
Flash forward to the future today!
Don’t flash back—flash forward to the future with the new NetApp ASA systems.
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