NetApp AFF-A70
Enterprise-grade performance, entry-level price
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Overview:
Powerful. Intelligent. Secure.
Unified data storage built for the AI era
NetApp® AFF A-Series systems easily power your most demanding workloads—from the mission-critical apps that run your business today to the AI and GenAI workloads that will unlock innovation and productivity in the future. With the advanced data management, industry-leading ransomware protection, and cloud integration that GenAI and other modern workloads demand, only NetApp delivers true unified storage architected for the next generation.
The AFF A-Series storage family, powered by NetApp ONTAP® data management software, delivers the same NetApp simplicity and reliability that tens of thousands of organizations of every size, in every industry, around the globe, have trusted for years. It’s the same technology that the top three public clouds rely on to drive all your apps and data across hybrid cloud. No more silos, no more storage complexity. Just powerful, intelligent, secure storage to seamlessly accelerate your business.
Transform to meet the needs of business today
Data-driven organizations require an agile and efficient hybrid IT infrastructure to meet the demand for fast, secure, and continuous access to distributed data in the hybrid cloud. NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure delivers the industry’s richest suite of data services across hybrid multicloud, enabling teams to seamlessly consume the services they require, on premises or in the cloud.
NetApp technologies, including the AFF A-Series, are anchored in unified data storage, which enables businesses to run any data type, and any app workload, across their premises and cloud with a single OS: ONTAP. A unified management experience provides ease of use and efficiency, eliminating infrastructure silos and data bottlenecks and delivering unmatched simplicity at scale.
Emerging workloads, such as AI and GenAI, data analytics, and deep learning, demand extreme performance. AFF A-Series systems deliver industry-leading speed, massive scalability, and best-in-class integration with public clouds, NVIDIA, and the MLOps ecosystem to help you accelerate, manage, and protect your next-generation apps across hybrid cloud.
Organizations of every size, in every industry, rely on AFF systems to:
- Accelerate and consolidate every workload (VMware, database, AI, and more) with unmatched performance, efficiency, and scale
- Drive transformation with a future-proof intelligent data infrastructure that seamlessly manages, protects, and mobilizes data across hybrid cloud
- Protect business-critical data against internal and external threats with real-time ransomware detection, guaranteed recovery, and business continuity
Turbocharge every workload without trade-offs
NetApp AFF A-Series systems deliver industry-leading performance, verified by SPC-1 and SPEC SFS industry benchmarks. These systems are ideal for everything from VMware environments, to highly transactional applications (such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MongoDB databases), to the most data-intensive AI training, tuning, inferencing, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workloads.
With the power of front-end NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP host connectivity combined with back-end NVMe-attached SSDs, the high-end AFF A1K modular system delivers up to 40 million IOPS and 1TBps throughput in a single cluster through a unified, scale-out architecture.
The AFF A90 system also delivers high-end performance— in an integrated form factor that’s especially well suited for AI (including GenAI), EDA, and media/entertainment workloads. It also enables in-chassis nondisruptive upgrades.
The integrated midrange AFF A70 system puts outstanding performance and flexibility (more I/O on network connection) within your budget.
The midrange AFF A50, AFF A30, and the entry-level AFF A20 all-flash storage systems offer high performance at an aggressive price point.
Features & Benefits:
Powerful
- Turbocharge every workload—VMware, database, AI—with 40 million IOPS, 1TBps throughput, and massive scale.
- Enable unmatched power and consolidation for all your workloads with hyperefficient, unified storage that supports block, file, and object.
- Accelerate without trade-offs through consistent performance, AQoS, and proven 99.9999% data availability.
Intelligent
- Transform with an AI-ready ecosystem built on data-driven intelligence, future-proof infrastructure, and deep integrations with NVIDIA and the MLOps ecosystem.
- Seamlessly manage, protect, and mobilize data, at the lowest cost, across hybrid cloud with a single storage OS and the industry’s richest data services suite.
- Simplify and automate hybrid operations with AIOps, efficient AI model versioning, and intuitive hybrid multicloud control delivered by BlueXP.
Secure
- Protect valuable data from cyberthreats with built-in AI/ML-based real-time ransomware detection designed for industry-first 99%+ accuracy, SIEM/XDR integrations, and guaranteed recovery with end-to-end orchestration.
- Trust in the only hardened enterprise storage that’s validated to store top-secret data.
- Prevent app disruptions, even during site failures, with integrated business continuity.
With the new AFF A-Series systems, you’ll never need to choose between performance and efficiency. You’ll have always-on improved data compression and no performance impact, thanks to QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT). The systems allow you to achieve exceptional storage efficiency while delivering the consistent high performance needed for mission-critical workloads. In addition, the new systems come with faster front-end 200Gb Ethernet and 64Gb FC networking connectivity.
Specifications:
AFF-A70 | |
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Maximum scale-out | 2–24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
Maximum SSDs | 2880 |
Maximum effective capacity | 185PB |
Controller form factor | 4U; 48 internal SSD slots |
Power Consumption (Median) | 1232W |
PCIe expansion slots | 18 |
FC target ports (64Gb autoranging) | 56 |
FC target ports (32Gb autoranging) | 56 |
FC target ports (16Gb autoranging) | 56 |
FCoE target ports, U TA2 | n/a |
200GbE ports (100GbE/40GbE autoranging) | 24 |
100GbE ports (40GbE autoranging) | 36 |
25GbE ports (10GbE autoranging) | 56 |
10GbE ports | 56 |
10GBASE-T (1GbE autoranging) | 56 |
12Gb/6Gb SAS ports | n/a |
OS version | ONTAP 9.15.1 or later |
Shelves and media | NS224 (2U, 24 drives, SFF NVMe) |
Host/client OS supported | Windows Server, Linux, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, macOS, VMware, ESX |
Documentation:
Download the NetApp AFF A Series Datasheet (.PDF)