Overview:
Organizations large and small are navigating at a rapid pace of change in a data-driven economy. Delivering data simply, quickly, and cost-effectively is essential to driving business growth, and hybrid cloud has emerged as the most efficient way to meet changing business needs. Every IT organization is trying to determine how to modernize with hybrid cloud, and all-flash storage systems are critical on premises to speed up enterprise applications. However, small enterprises have continued to use hard disk storage systems because of the high cost of all-flash solutions.
All-flash storage systems are no longer out of reach. The NetApp AFF C190 storage system powered by NetApp ONTAP data management software, offers a simple, smart, and secure enterprise-class flash system for an affordable price. Designed for IT generalists, it helps you meet new business requirements with a modern all-flash array that provides comprehensive data services, integrated data protection, seamless scalability, new levels of performance, and cloud integration.
Simple
- Provision storage in minutes.
- Manage file and block data on a single system.
- Effortlessly connect to any public cloud.
Smart
- Lower TCO with data reduction.
- Accelerate application performance and improve response time.
- Optimize availability and performance.
Secure
- Safeguard your data.
- Protect your data at rest and in transit.
- Never lose data with zero-data-loss protection.
Why NetApp entry-level, all-flash storage?
One system to rule every workload
All-flash storage systems are critical for speeding up enterprise applications and creating a modern hybrid cloud infrastructure. They provide comprehensive data services, integrated data protection, seamless scalability, new levels of performance, and cloud integration. That said, the high cost of all-flash systems forces most small enterprises to stick with hard disk storage. Or at least it used to. With NetApp’s AFF C190 entry-level storage system, the benefits of all-flash are no longer out of reach. Not only is it easy to install and deploy, it provides the security you need with the flexibility to connect to cloud—all at a lovely little price.
Features:
Easy Management for IT Generalists
Deploy workloads in under 10 minutes.
Fast-provisioning workflows enable you to provision new storage systems in minutes from power-on to serving data. A simple wizard guides you in quickly setting up and configuring the system. Built-in workflows for Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, VMware, and other applications let you easily provision storage for your applications as needed.
Use a single system for file and block data.
Simplify your infrastructure by consolidating your file and block data onto a single storage system. With one interface to manage all your data, you will improve the productivity of your IT team.
Effortlessly connect to public clouds.
Automatically tier cold data or back up to the cloud to reduce overall storage costs. The AFF C190 system delivers industry leading hybrid cloud integration, supporting all major public clouds such as Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM Storage Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.
Drive Operational Efficiencies
Improve storage efficiency to control costs.
Reduce infrastructure costs with the comprehensive storage efficiency capabilities delivered by the AFF C190 system. Data reduction features in ONTAP, including compression and deduplication, work together to help you optimize the capacity needed. Your storage efficiency is backed by the industryleading efficiency guarantee program.
Accelerate application performance with flash.
The AFF C190 system is optimized for flash and delivers 10 times faster application response than hybrid arrays. All-flash storage allows you to run more workloads on a single system without compromising performance.
Optimize availability and performance with data-driven analytics.
Keep your storage system is performing optimally, providing undisrupted access to data, and maintaining the performance your business-critical applications need. The NetApp Active IQ® intelligence platform provides data-driven insights that help you identify and correct problems before they occur.
Protect Your Data
Safeguard your data.
Your end users demand nonstop access to businesscritical data, so you can’t allow unplanned downtime and other disruptions to affect business operations. The AFF C190 system provides comprehensive integrated data protection to safeguard your data and keep things running smoothly. Meet your requirements for local backup with near-instant recovery by using space-efficient NetApp Snapshot™ copies. Achieve remote backup/recovery and disaster recovery with NetApp SnapMirror® asynchronous replication.
Secure your application data.
Robust security is important to protect data from internal and external threats. Without any special hardware, you can easily secure your at-rest data with NetApp Volume Encryption. In addition, multifactor authentication improves data access control, and cryptographic shredding enables General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance for your organization.
Never lose your data.
Achieve zero-data-loss protection (RPO=0) if a disaster or major outage occurs. NetApp SnapMirror Synchronous technology delivers granular, synchronous data replication and maintains storage efficiency savings during and after data transfer.
Benefits:
The AFF C190 couldn’t be any simpler to manage
Provision storage in minutes, manage file and block data on a single system, and reduce overall storage costs by effortlessly connecting to your choice of public cloud providers. You’re going to love the all-flash life.
AFF A-Series all-flash arrays: simple, smart, speedy
Need a little (or a lot) more performance for your critical business applications? Look no further than our NetApp® AFF A-Series all-flash arrays. They deliver the award-winning speed and responsiveness your performance-sapping workloads demand. Don’t worry, you’ll get used to the jaw-dropping efficiency in no time at all.
Still need convincing that all-flash storage is for you?
It’s a big step moving from hard drives to all-flash storage. We get it. That’s why we’ve put together a list of five persuasive (unbiased, we promise) reasons why you should ditch hard drives in the name of modernizing your data center.
Modernize Your IT with Affordable All-Flash Storage
The NetApp AFF C190 is only available for purchase through our channel partners. Contact sales to get you in touch with a channel partner, or find a channel partner directly to get started.
Specifications:
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| AFF C190 Technical Specifications |
| Capacity |
Max. effective capacity 50TiBa
Max. SSD 24 drives |
| Drives Type |
960GB SSD |
| Connectivity |
4 ports—12Gb/6Gb SAS
1GbE management port, USB port
8 ports—FC target (16Gb), UTA2
8 ports—FCoE target, UTA2
8 ports—10GbE, UTA2
8 ports—10GBASE-T
4 ports—10GbE – Cluster Interconnect |
| Operating Systems |
ONTAP 9.6 GA or later |
| Protocols |
FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, SMB |
| Host OS version |
Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Linux, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HPE UX, macOS, VMware, ESX |
1 Effective capacity is based on 3:1 storage efficiency ratios with the maximum number of SSDs installed. The actual ratio can be higher depending on workloads and use cases.
Documentation:
Download the NetApp AFF C190 Datasheet (.PDF)
