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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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- Flash Array Performance (6)9.797%
- Flash Array Integration (5)9.797%
- Data Compression (5)9.696%
- Simplicity (6)9.191%
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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 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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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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The Best Solution offers for different organization great experience in data management, reliable, secure data storage platform.
Easy to set the security and provide the access to others data projects. Easy User interface to set all feature to perform effectively and generate great quality service.
Easy to set the security and provide the access to others data projects. Easy User interface to set all feature to perform effectively and generate great quality service.
March 26, 2022
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Array Review
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash arrays support the NFS, CIFS ISCSI, and FC Protocols. We are using this product for our small mid-range projects and database servers.
February 18, 2022
Very Easy and Secure Company Data Storage and the Best on Data Analytics Production.
The best solution offers various companies great experience in data management and a very reliable and secure data storage platform and the capabilities are reliable to all business productions. Easy to set security and access other project data easily through this solution and on data analytics. I also like the capabilities provided, as well as the easy creation of reports via the platform.
Storage capacity planning and the configuration management capability this software offers effective capabilities. Easy interface to set all the features to perform effectively and to generate great quality services through the platform. The ability to manage services and data analytics and even reporting functions provides accurate and productive results in real-time and visualization of different data using NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is incredible.
February 03, 2022
Insane Performance Required
We had a project that had a need for a very high I/O for the database backend. We were using NetApp Clustered Arrays with multiple filers, but the wait time was still too high. We switched to a NetApp AFF and immediately noticed drastic performance increases. We were able to achieve write and read times in milliseconds compared to minutes before the swap. At one point, we were actually overloading the IP Stack with the number of connections the database could now handle.
July 01, 2019
Netapp AFF in a HealthCare environment
We currently own 2 AFF systems. One in the primary data center and one in an off site location. Both are used for a broad range of applications:
Cache Database (Epic EMR and Sunquest Lab)
Oracle Database (Multiple applications)
SQL Server (Hundreds of databases)
AIX Boot from SAN
VMWare guests (Over 1,000 VMs)
NFS Storage
All production systems are snap-mirrored between the two AFF systems for redundancy and recoverability.
NetApp All Flash FAS is currently being used to host our production data across all departments. It hosts our CIFS shares which are mapped as network drives for all the end users. It also hosts our entire VDI environment. It helped us tremendously by giving us the flexibility to use NFS, ISCSI and CIFS protocols as we use them all.