On-Premises Storage Flashcards
Different types of netapp data storage
AFF
FAS
FlexPOD
StorageGRID
EF-Series
E-Series
SolidFire
AFF Systems
AFF is scale-out system for virtualised environments. Low Latency with built in data management, efficiencies, integrated data protection, multi protocol support and non-disruptive operations.
AFF supports only SSD and has embedded software (flash)
Benefits are accelerate applications: speed up critical applications and accelerate AI and machine learning.
Reduce data Center costs: storage data in compact systems, save SSD storage with inline data reduction.
Simply IT operations: Unified data services across SAN and NAS
Best used for:
Enterprise applications, Data analytics, high performance engineering and design.
FAS systems
FAS is create for shared, consolidated SAN and NAS environment that require rich data management and easy cloud connection.
FAS offer the best price, performance and configuration flexability.
Simplified provisioning of storage
flexible to adapt to your ever changing business needs.
Trusted, as you can safeguard your data across the hybrid cloud and secure your infrastructure from unauthorised access
General purpose workloads
File services
Large scale engineering and design
Virtulization
FlexPOD
A complete data Center stack developed by NetApp and Cisco. A converged infrastructure product.
Flex pod supports Virtulization hypervisors including Microsoft Huber-V and VMware vSphere.
Available in several footprints.
Made up of . Cisco unified computing system (UCS), server systems. Cisco Nexus services switches, Netapp FAS or AFF hardware.
StorageGRID
The object-based storage solution is used to store and manage unstructured data at scale for secure, durable object storage.
Uses Amazon S3 API, and open stack Swift API
Used for object storage, massive stability, Large archives, media repositories, web data stores.
Enabled replication, and layered erasure coding. High availability.
Best used for Optimized media workflows, unstructured data, and to monetize huge dat sets for machine learning and AI
EF-Series
EF-Series provide supercharged performance sensitive workloads like real-time analytics, high performance computing (HPC) and databases.
EF Series can be deployed as SAN or DAS systems.
Powered by SAN trinity OS
Supports 367TB of flash storage in a single modular 2U building block.
Designed for mixed workload environments such as big data and databases.
Used for Technical computing, Hadoop, high performance databases, and web and security apps
E-Series
Primary tier 1 storage for top enterprise customers. Built for dedicated high bandwidth applications that need simple, fast SAN storage with enterprise-grade reliability. Block only storage.
Configured with HDD (EF is with SSD).
Can be installed with 12, 24 or 60 drive shelves.
Benefits from accelerated performance, boosted IOPS and increase density.
Complete business operations faster (oracle and MSQL databases up to 20x)
Complete fault isolation. Maximize uptime with full redundancy and automated failover.
Optimized performance for petabye-scale a data-intensive applications
Used for Big data analytics, video surveillance, HPC, and backup and Recovery.
SolidFire
A fully automated all flash array delivering agility and application performance at scale
All flash (SSD)
Runs Netapp Elements software on each node independently
Cluster = a collection of nodes
Node = storage node or FC node used to connect flicents
Drives = VBolume Metadata drives and Block (storage) drives for volumes
Two types of nodes are storage and management nodes
Offers high performance for large scale private cloud infrastructure. API driven storage management, QS, Automatic load balancing across all nodes.
Uses: simplify (automate production read cloud environment for self services), build (a cloud hosting infrastructure with distinct hosted and managed services). Deploy (a modern programmable infrastructure to accelerate DevOps).
