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NetApp AFF A-Series

NetApp AFF A-Series

Overview

What is NetApp AFF A-Series?

NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.

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Popular Features

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  • Flash Array Performance (6)
    9.7
    97%
  • Flash Array Integration (5)
    9.7
    97%
  • Data Compression (5)
    9.6
    96%
  • Simplicity (6)
    9.1
    91%
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Features

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.

9.4
Avg 9.1
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Product Details

What is NetApp AFF A-Series?

NetApp® AFF A-Series systems are designed to help organizations transform their infrastructure more quickly and fuel data-driven strategies. Powered by NetApp ONTAP® data management software, AFF systems aim to deliver performance, flexibility, and data services and cloud integration to help companies to accelerate, manage, and protect business-critical data in the hybrid cloud.

AFF A-Series systems, whether entry-level or high-end, support end-to-end NVMe technologies, from NVMe-attached SSDs to front-end host connectivity of both NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) and NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP). These systems deliver low latency for an enterprise all-flash array, so they can run demanding workloads and AI/DL applications.

AFF is used by companies to:

  • Simplify operations with data management on the premises and in the cloud.
  • Speed up existing and emerging applications.
  • Keep business-critical data available, protected, and secure.

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NetApp AFF A-Series Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.

Reviewers rate Flash Array Performance and Flash Array Integration highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of NetApp AFF A-Series are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have found that the NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays offer a great experience in data management and provide a reliable and secure data storage platform. The software has effective capabilities for storage capacity planning and configuration management, making it convenient for users to access project data and perform data analytics. With easy report creation, users appreciate the capabilities provided by the software.

Customers have experienced drastic performance increases after switching to NetApp AFF, achieving write and read times in milliseconds compared to minutes. The visualization of different data offered by the arrays is incredible, providing accurate and productive results in real-time. The NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays support various protocols like NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, and FC, making them suitable for a broad range of applications including cache databases, Oracle databases, SQL Server, AIX Boot from SAN, VMWare guests, and NFS storage. Additionally, the software is used for redundancy and recoverability with production systems snap-mirrored between two systems. It is also flexible, supporting NFS, iSCSI, and CIFS protocols for small mid-range projects and database servers. Overall, NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays offer a reliable and secure data storage solution with impressive performance capabilities for a variety of use cases.

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Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Easy user interface and accessibility of the feature are very effective and provide the great solution for data storage and data migration.
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Array is most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data, capacity plaining tools and others configuration options are best and easy to use.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
NetApp Storage supports the NFS, CIFS, ISCSI, and FC Protocol. It's well designed for small mid-range projects and organizations to manage the database and application. Handles workloads really well. This product is a very secure platform for any organization for all business, capacity planning tools.
Cedeno Amanda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Easy interface and the accessibility of the features are effective and this solution functionalities on data migration and processing of different from other packages is amazing. NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is the most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data and the capacity planning tools and even the configuration options are the best and easy to use.
Annette Gilmour | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays has powerful and stable features which were very easy to configure during the initial deployment of the product. The features offer multiple capabilities like data storage environment management, easy planning of storage capacity, and moving big data through this platform is easy and time managing and even reports which the solution can generate are excellent.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
There is a lot of tuning and performance improvements that can be done with NetApp Clustered Arrays, but if a colleague is running into high wait times on database functions after performing all the tuning they can on their current system, then this is the only way to go. The performance of these AFF Arrays is insane.
Paul Lemmons | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We us our AFF to support all applications that have a response time imperative or are IO intensive such as databases, email, VMware VMs and applications that have users at a keyboard needing a responsive interaction. It is also where we put all data that must be encrypted at rest such as HIPAA data.

It is of no value to data that is generally archived, little used or has low IO requirements. These would include scanned images, videos, IP Camera storage and most CIFS and NFS file based storage. For these types of applications SATA is still a better choice.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is very well suited for any organization who is trying to host network drives as it supports CIFS protocol and is very good at it. We looked into multiple products including SMB with other flash storage platforms and still went back to Netapp because it does CIFS really well. Any organization who is trying to host VDI on flash will benefit from the use of NetApp All Flash FAS as we did. Our users immediately noticed a difference in performance of their VDI bootup times and overall experience. From the admin's point of view, they noticed server reboot times to be a few seconds. Overall, this array provides a lot of IOPS, does data compression and reduction really well and is worth the investment.
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