Specification

NAS Scale-out: 2-24 nodes (12 HA pairs)

Maximum SSD: 4608

Maximum Raw Capacity: 140.5PB/124.8PiB

Effective Capacity: 562.2PB/499.0PiB

Maximum Memory: 3,072GB

SAN Scale-out: 2-12 nodes (6 HA pairs)

Maximum SSD: 2304

Maximum Raw Capacity: 70.3PB/62.4PiB

Effective Capacity: 281.1PB/249.5PiB

Maximum Memory: 1636GB

Cluster Interconnect: 4x 10GbE

Per HA Pair Specifications

Maximum SSD: 384

Maximum Raw Capacity: 11.7PB/10.4PiB

Effective Capacity: 46.9PB/41.6PiB

Controller Chassis Form Factor: 3U chassis with two HA controllers

Memory: 256GB

NVRAM/NVMEM: 16GB

PCIe Expansion Slots: 4

Onboard I/O: 100GbE / 40GbE: n/a

Onboard I/O: UTA2 (16Gb FC, 10GbE/ FCoE): 8

Onboard I/O: 10GbE: 4

Onboard I/O: config only 10Gbase-T: 4

Onboard I/O: 12Gb SAS: 8

Storage Networking Supported: NVMe/FC; FC; FCoE; iSCSI; NFS; pNFS; CIFS/SMB

OS Version: ONTAP 9.1 GA or later

High-Availability: SAS in-band management over SAS connections; Ethernet-based service processor and ONTAP management interface; redundant hot-swappable controllers, cooling fans, and power supplies

Supported Configurations ONTAP 9.4

Cluster Configurations

-    Two-node switchless or switched cluster

-    Clusters of HA pairs

MetroCluster™ over TCP/IP configurations for synchronous replication

4-node: two 2-node switched or switchless clusters with Ethernet connections between DR sites

MetroCluster™ over TCP/IP configurations for synchronous replication in ONTAP 9.3 and later

-    4-node: two 2-node switched or switchless clusters with Ethernet connections between DR sites

MetroCluster™ configurations for synchronous replication

-    2-node

-    4-node: two 2-node switched or switchless clusters with fabric-attached (switched) storage (4 nodes total a 2-node active-active cluster at each site)

-    8-node (NAS-only): four 2-node switched or switchless clusters with fabric-attached (switched) storage (8 nodes total: a 4-node cluster at each site)

MetroCluster™ configurations for synchronous replication

-    2-node

-    4-node: two 2-node switched or switchless clusters with fabric-attached (switched) storage (4 nodes total a 2-node active-active cluster at each site)

-    8-node (NAS-only): four 2-node switched or switchless clusters with fabric-attached (switched) storage (8 nodes total: a 4-node cluster at each site)

Supported Internal SSDs: 30.5TB (external only), 15.3TB, 7.6TB, 3.8TB, and 960GB 3.8TB and 800GB self-encrypting

Supported Storage Shelves and SSDs: 6 drive NVMe packs for add on internal storage 6 drive NVMe packs for add on storage

Supported as part of upgrades DS224C with all supported SSDs DS2246 with all supported SSDs

Configured with new systems:

Storage shelf: DS224C; 2U 24 drive, 12Gbps SAS

-    SSDs: 15.3TB, 3.8TB, and 960GB

-    Self-encrypting [2] SSDs: 3.8TB (all system models) and 800GB (AFF A300 and AFF A200 only)

Supported when expanding system capacity or adding storage from other AFF systems:

Storage shelf: DS224C; 2U 24 drive, 12Gbps SAS

-    SSDs: 15.3TB, 3.8TB, and 960GB

-    Self-encrypting SSDs: 3.8TB (all system models) and 800GB

Storage shelf: DS2246; 2U 24 drive, 6Gbps SAS

-    SSDs: 3.8TB, 1.6TB, 800GB, and 400GB

-    Self-encrypting SSDs: 1.6TB and 800GB

Self-encrypting SSDs are AES-256, FIPS 140-2 compliant

Maximum RAID Group Sizes

RAID-TEC™ (triple parity RAID, supported with ONTAP 9.0 and later)

SSD: 29 (26 data drives plus 3 parity drives)

RAID 6 (RAID DP)

SSD: 28 (26 data drives plus 2 parity drives)

RAID 4

SSD: 14 (13 data drives plus 1 parity drive)

RAID 6 + RAID 1 or RAID 4 + RAID 1 (SyncMirror®)

Host Operating Systems Supported:

Windows® 2000, Windows Server® 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Linux®, Oracle® Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac® OS, VMware®, ESX®

Max. Number of LUNs: 12,288 4096

Number of Supported SAN Hosts: 8,192 512

FlexVol® volumes: Up to 1,000 per controller

Snapshot® Copies: Up to 255,000 per controller

Maximum Volume Size: 100TiB

Maximum Aggregate Size

400TiB in ONTAP 9.1 versions

800TiB in ONTAP 9.2 and later