Specification

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

Maximum SSD: 2880

Maximum Raw Capacity: 79.0PB/70.2PiBB

Effective Capacity: 316.3PB/280.8PiB

Maximum Memory: 15,360GB

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

Maximum SSD: 1440

Maximum Raw Capacity: 39.6PB/35.1PiB

Effective Capacity: 158.2PB/140.4PiB

Maximum Memory: 7680GB

Cluster Interconnect: 4x 100GbE

Per HA Pair Specifications

Maximum SSD: 240

Maximum Raw Capacity: 6.6PB/5.8PiB

Effective Capacity: 26.4PB/23.4PiB

Controller Chassis Form Factor: 4U chassis with two HA controllers and 48 SSD slots

Memory: 1280GB

NVRAM/NVMEM: 64GB

PCIe Expansion Slots: 8

Onboard I/O: 100GbE / 40GbE: 4x 100GbE or 4x 40GbE

Onboard I/O: 10GbE: n/a

Onboard I/O: config only 10Gbase-T: n/a

Onboard I/O: 12Gb SAS: n/a

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

OS Version: ONTAP 9.4 RC1 or later

High-Availability: SAS in-band management over SAS connections; Ethernet-based baseboard management controller (BMC) and ONTAP management interface; redundant hot-swappable controllers 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)

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