Accelerate Business Operations With Unified Scale-Out Storage

The demands of a data-driven business require a fundamentally new approach to storage with an integrated combina- tion of high-performance hardware and adaptive, scalable storage software that not only supports existing workloads, but also adapts and scales quickly to address new applications and evolving IT models.

FAS8000 enterprise storage systems are engineered specifically to address these needs. Powered by NetApp®  Data ONTAP®  and optimized for scale-out, the FAS8000 series unifies your SAN and NAS storage infrastructure. With proven data management capabilities, the FAS8000 has the flexibility to keep up with changing business needs while delivering on core IT requirements.

The FAS8000 features a multiprocessor Intel®  chip set and leverages high- performance memory modules, NVRAM to accelerate and optimize writes, and an I/O-tuned PCIe gen3 architecture that maximizes application throughput. Building on a decade of multicore opti- mization, Data ONTAP drives the latest cores and increased core counts to keep up with continuous growth in storage demands. The result is a flexible, efficient I/O design capable of supporting large numbers of high-speed network connec- tions and massive capacity scaling.

FAS8000 scale-out storage systems offer exceptional flexibility and expand- ability in an extremely dense package. Integrated unified target adapter (UTA2) ports support 16Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE, or FCoE, so your storage is ready on day one for whatever choices the future holds.

Get More From Existing Storage Investments

Simplify your IT operations and deliver more value from existing storage with the only unified storage virtualization solution. FlexArray virtualization soft- ware extends the capabilities of the FAS8000 to include EMC, Hitachi, and NetApp E-Series arrays, consolidating management of your existing storage to simplify operations, while increasing efficiency, and providing superior functionality.

This creates a single storage manage- ment architecture that supports both SAN and NAS while simplifying man- agement and cloud integration.

Scale And Adapt To Meet Changing Needs

Your business is constantly changing. Your storage infrastructure should adapt and scale right along with it. With FAS8000 unified scale-out storage, you can optimize and accelerate your storage environment as needed. All FAS8000 storage is designed to scale as performance and capacity require- ments change. You can scale up—by adding capacity, adding flash acceler- ation, and upgrading controllers—and scale out. A single cluster can grow up to 24 nodes and 57PB of capacity with ease.

Because you can nondisruptively add or replace storage systems and components as well as mix and match different FAS models—scaling occurs without maintenance windows or the challenge of coordinating downtime across teams.

Unlock The Full Power Of Flash

Flash-accelerated FAS8000 storage systems deliver twice the performance of our previous generation storage— boosting throughput, lowering latency, and meeting stringent service levels with predictable high performance.

Data ONTAP on the FAS8000 simplifies flash management, resulting in more powerful hybrid storage. In hybrid FAS8000 configurations, flash functions as a self-managing virtual storage tier with up to 18TB of flash per HA pair and 216TB per cluster.

Hot data is automatically promoted to flash in real time, so you get the full benefit of flash performance. Flash integration extends to the host for the lowest possible latency. Flash can also be configured as persistent storage, including all-flash configurations with hundreds of SSDs.

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