NetApp AFF-C800
Consolidate and grow your general-purpose workloads with confidence

Consolidate and grow your general-purpose workloads with unmatched density, scale, and ef ficiency

The challenge

Organizations are striving to unlock the full potential of their data and drive transformative change, all while facing budget constraints, IT skill shortages, and an escalating need to protect data from cyberthreats. To truly accelerate IT modernization, they need storage solutions that offer seamless, unified scalability; superior density and efficiency; and best-in-class data protection—all with optimal performance and an affordable price.

The solution

NetApp has the answer. NetApp® AFF C-Series product family is game-changing capacity flash storage designed to modernize general-purpose workloads and increase IT agility without breaking the bank. Using ultradense capacity flash and maximizing data efficiency, the AFF C-Series delivers a great balance between all-flash performance and cost-effectiveness. Organizations consolidating workloads from hybrid storage solutions benefit from comprehensive data management and full support for block, file, and object protocols—streamlining workflows while reducing power and cooling requirements.

Data storage without boundaries

Organizations are striving to make their ITOps more cost- and energy-efficient while also meeting their performance and capacity requirements. AFF C-Series systems help customers achieve these goals by reducing data center costs with a solution that’s more sustainable and efficient than hybrid flash and HDD systems.

The budget-friendly AFF C-Series is ideal for a wide range of general-purpose applications. It’s also a great choice for hosting database and VM copies for DevTest sandboxes and serves as an ultrareliable replication target. Users modernizing from hybrid flash can reduce their footprint by up to 99%, consume up to 97% less energy, and benefit from the performance of capacity-optimized all-flash storage.

AFF C-Series systems are built on high-density NVMe capacity flash technology. They also offer scale and flexibility to meet dynamic storage demands. Unified capacity for block, file, and object workloads provides seamless scaling from 122TB to over 700PB of effective capacity. This facilitates uninterrupted growth and adaptability, making the AFF C-Series ideal for general-purpose applications and consolidated workloads.

The AFF C-Series features comprehensive data management capabilities, including replication, data tiering, and adaptive quality of service (QoS), simplifying and automating hybrid multicloud operations with built-in AIOps and intuitive monitoring through the NetApp BlueXP™ control plane. With the AFF C-Series, your storage infrastructure is not just meeting current demands—it’s primed to adapt to the evolving needs of the future.

Maximize density and efficiency

Ultradense capacity flash combined with NetApp deduplication and compression delivers superior storage density without affecting performance. The AFF C-Series eliminates inefficient storage silos to reduce storage sprawl, and boosts performance while slashing power consumption. With a single storage OS, you can seamlessly manage, protect, and mobilize data across data centers and hybrid cloud environments, streamlining operations and enhancing data management.

Unified storage OS powered by ONTAP

Part of our unified data storage portfolio, the AFF C-Series is powered by NetApp ONTAP® software, which provides effective, secure data management and consistent access to data services across environments. A unified management experience results in ease of use and efficiency, eliminating infrastructure silos and data bottlenecks and delivering unmatched simplicity at scale.

ONTAP provides a common set of features across onpremises and cloud storage, which simplifies operations so that IT teams can focus on strategic business priorities. It allows you to manage storage across a hybrid multicloud that spans flash, disk, and cloud running block, file, and object workloads. You can easily move data within or between storage clusters or to the cloud—wherever it’s most useful. ONTAP is the foundation for the intelligent data infrastructure that powers data to drive innovation.

Consolidate workloads and expand capacity without disruption

Built on the nondisruptive clustering scale-out architecture in ONTAP, AFF C-Series systems allow you to expand capacity with ease, eliminating storage silos and painful data migrations.

You can also:

• Consolidate workloads on AFF C-Series systems, and safeguard SLAs in multiworkload and multitenant environments with built-in adaptive QoS
• Manage massively scalable NAS containers of up to 20PB and 400 billion files with a single namespace

Tier cold data to the cloud for greater storage and energy savings

A hybrid cloud IT infrastructure powered by NetApp technology lets you simplify and integrate data management across cloud and on-premises environments to meet business demands and gain a competitive edge. With the AFF C-Series, you can maximize performance and reduce overall storage costs by up to 70% by automatically tiering cold data to the cloud. This allows you to reserve flash storage for more frequently used data while also consuming less energy. With NetApp’s leading cloud integrations, you can also connect to more clouds for more data services, such as backup, caching, and disaster recovery. Best of all, you can simply manage all your data, either on premises or in the cloud, with the BlueXP unified control plane.