NetApp ASA-C250
Simple, powerful, affordable all-flash storage

Overview:

Simple, powerful, af fordable block-optimized storage.

The challenge

Organizations have long had to choose between operational simplicity and high-end capabilities like scale-out and advanced data management in block storage. IT decision makers have been forced to compromise, and that has impeded infrastructure modernization efforts.

The solution

With the block-optimized NetApp® ASA series, NetApp eliminates that trade-off — via simple, powerful, scaleout all-flash storage with advanced data management and protection features at an extremely affordable price. NetApp ASA enables storage modernization for every organization.

The ASA systems deliver a simplified and consistent experience for VMware apps, mission-critical databases, and other SAN workloads. Built on a scale-out, end-to-end NVMe architecture, NetApp ASA systems offer industryleading availability and performance and simplified data management across your hybrid cloud.

All-flash block storage powered by ONTAP

NetApp ASA systems modernize your SAN infrastructure, accelerating business-critical applications, making data always available, and simplifying storage management. The ASA family includes A-Series models designed for your most performance-demanding and mission-critical applications, and C-Series models optimized for cost-effective deployment of large-capacity and general-purpose applications. Together, the ASA systems:

• Deliver exceptional performance that improves customers’ experience and reduces time to results.
• Slash operational risk and enhance business continuity by keeping business-critical data available, protected, and secure.
• Transform your SAN environment with modern, affordable block storage that costs up to 50% less than the competition, with far better TCO.

Keep critical data available, protected, and secure

As organizations become more data driven, the business impact of data loss can be increasingly dramatic—and costly. IT must protect data from both internal and external threats, ensure data availability, eliminate maintenance disruptions, and quickly recover from failures.

Access your data with continuous availability

ASA systems provide continuous access to data during unplanned outages by using symmetric, active-active multipathing. With both active controllers capable of communicating to a LUN, multipathing gives you uninterrupted access to your data with rapid failover recovery

NetApp business continuity solutions help you maintain constant data availability with zero data loss and zero downtime in the event of a human-made or natural disaster. NetApp SnapMirror® active sync provides application-level protection with automatic failover, enabling mission-critical business services to keep operating, even during a complete site failure. NetApp MetroCluster® software protects your entire system by replicating data synchronously to a separate location at a greater distance. If something goes wrong at one site, your applications switch over to the other site, automatically and instantaneously.

Integrated data protection

ASA systems come with a full suite of acclaimed NetApp integrated and application-consistent data protection software. Key capabilities include:

• Native space efficiency with cloning and NetApp Snapshot™ copies that reduce storage costs and minimize performance impact.
• NetApp SnapCenter® software that provides applicationconsistent data protection and clone management to simplify application management.
• NetApp SnapMirror technology that simplifies operations with built-in data protection across the hybrid cloud.