The NetApp® EF-Series is a family of entry-level and midrange all-flash storage arrays that accelerate organizations' access to data and help derive value from it. These systems offer NVMe flash storage and provide more affordable to extreme IOPS, boasting response times under 100 microseconds and bandwidth up to 44GBps. The arrays are presented as ideal for mixed workloads and demanding applications such as analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI).
EF-Series features:
- NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) support, providing low latency and investment protection
- Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, and InfiniBand (IB) support for enhanced interoperability with any existing SAN infrastructure
- Redundant components with automated failover
- Advanced monitoring and diagnostics with proactive repair
- Storage management with comprehensive tuning functions
- Full-function NetApp SANtricity® Web Services embedded REST API
- SANtricity Snapshot™ technology, volume copy, mirroring for data protection where supported, and Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP)
- SANtricity data assurance (T10-PI standard) for data integrity and protection against silent data inconsistency
The NetApp EF600 all-flash array is designed specifically for workloads that demand the highest levels of performance. The NetApp EF300 array is designed for mixed workload environments such as big data analytics and databases. These NVMe all-flash arrays deliver double the performance of the previous SAS all-flash arrays.