Today NetApp announced the latest version of its data management software, ONTAP 9.6. The company also announced its second end-to-end NVMe all flash array (the first being the AFF A800) aimed at the midrange, the AFF A320. These new releases along with expanded services are geared for helping businesses modernize for hybrid multi-cloud environments while also maximizing the value of their data.
NetApp is expanding on its Data Fabric strategy with more cloud-connect flash solutions that are designed to provide the simplicity, operational efficiency and protection needed to support innovation. For emerging technologies, such as 5G and AI, these new solutions will have to bring new levels of performance and power as well. With today’s announcements, NetApp strengthens its position as the only vendor that enables users to build their own unique Data Fabric spanning public cloud, private cloud and on-premises environments.
NetApp has taken its data management software, ONTAP, from 9.5 to 9.6 with themes surrounding simplicity, productivity, security, data protection, and addressing more customers use cases. This update comes with several features and benefits that now include long term service support: all releases come with three years full support and two year limited support. From a management standpoint, ONTAP has new product names (ONTAP System Manager and Active IQ Unified Manager) as well as a redesigned dashboard for simpler workflows based on RESTful APIs.
ONTAP 9.6 includes the following enhancements:
Last year NetApp rolled out the first end-to-end NVMe with the AFF A800 aimed at large enterprises. Today they are taking all the performance benefits and bringing to the mid-range in the 2U, AFF A320.
The A320 can be connected to NetApp NS224 2U storage shelves that have 24 NVMe SSD bays (that support 1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB and 15.3TB NVMe SSDs). The A320 comes with high bandwidth connectivity, such as 100/40/25GbE and 32/16Gb FC. It connects to the NVMe shelf through NVMe/RoCE protocol.
NetApp NS224 NVMe SSD Storage Shelf
At launch the NS224 NVMe shelf support is just for the new A320, however it’s reasonable to assume that NetApp will want to bring the NVMe shelf to the A800, which currently does not have NVMe expansion shelf support.
The AFF A320 system enables customers to:
NetApp also expanded its services to improve efficiency and performance while protection against disruption and data loss.
NetApp’s expanded services portfolio now includes:
NetApp is also announcing new switches as well. The switches include the 1U BS-53248 Ethernet switch with a base configuration of 16x 10GbE SFP+ ports, 2x 40GbE QSFP ports, and 2x 100GbE QSFP28 ports for ISL. And the Cisco Nexus 92300YC Ethernet switch that supported ADD and FAS systems using ONTAP 9.6 or higher and has a base configuration of 48x SFP+ ports configured as 10GbE, 16x QSFP ports configured as 40GbE, and 2x 100GbE ports per switch for ISL.
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