All-Flash Storage
Accelerate Performance with NetApp EF-Series All-Flash Arrays
Affordable high-density, all-flash storage systems deliver consistent high performance for a wide range of specialized block workloads.
The NetApp EF-Series is a family of entry-level and midrange all-flash block storage arrays that can accelerate performance and data access to help you derive value faster - within budget.
These systems offer end-to-end NVMe flash storage and provide sustained high IOPS at ultralow latency, response times under 100 microseconds, and write-bandwidth up to 57GB/s. They are ideal for specialized block workloads with extreme performance demands such as high-performance computing (HPC), AI (with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD), and transactional databases.
Key Capabilities
At a glance
- Fast
- Affordable
- Proven
- Enhanced Interoperability
- Redundancy
Features and Benefits
The capabilities that set NetApp EF-Series All-Flash Arrays apart.
Key Benefits
Fast
- Modular and flexible configuration options to support your most demanding performance and cost requirements
- Industry-leading IOPS and ultralow latency to increase application responsiveness
Affordable
- Industry-leading budget and performance for both high IOPS and bandwidth
- NVMe-oF and SCSI options provide investment protection to meet future demands without forklift upgrades
- Optimize rack density with up to 1.5PB in a 2U form factor
Proven
- Worry-free reliability with over 1 million installations
- Access enterprise Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) for integrated solutions
Enterprise-Proven Capabilities
Enhanced Interoperability
Fibre Channel (FC), NVMe/RoCE, iSCSI, and InfiniBand (IB) support for enhanced interoperability with your existing SAN infrastructure
Redundancy
Redundant components with automated failover
Advanced Monitoring
Advanced monitoring and diagnostics with proactive repair
Intuitive Storage Management
Intuitive storage management with comprehensive tuning functions
REST API
Full-function NetApp SANtricity Web Services embedded REST API
Data Protection
SANtricity Snapshot technology, volume copy, mirroring for data protection where supported, and Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP)
Data Assurance
SANtricity data assurance (T10-PI standard) for data integrity and protection against silent data inconsistency
Ansible Automation
EF-Series Ansible collections simplify and streamline adoption by automating all storage provisioning tasks
Fast and affordable performance you can rely on
Modular Building Block
The EF-Series all-flash arrays offer industry-leading price, performance, rack density, and capacity in an enterprise-grade system. With support for up to 1.5PBs of flash capacity in a single modular 2U building block, the systems enable you to easily meet ever-changing business requirements. And with low TCO and a smaller physical footprint, they help achieve more cost-efficient operations.
EF80 and EF50
The EF80 all-flash array is designed specifically for workloads that demand the highest levels of performance such as AI and HPC, while the EF50 array is designed for mixed workload environments such as big data analytics and databases.
Analytics Performance
Achieve better performance for analytics applications such as Splunk and Apache Hadoop, reducing time to actionable data.
IT Efficiency
Significantly improve the overall efficiency of your IT operations while meeting performance requirements.
HPC and AI Acceleration
Speed up HPC and AI applications at scale with any of the enterprise parallel file systems that the EF-Series is integrated with, such as Lustre and BeeGFS.
SAS Enclosure Enhancement
Enhance your setup with SAS enclosures, adding a tier of spinning media to complement your ultralow latency NVMe SSDs.
Proven simplicity
Modular Design
Modular design and simple management tools make it easy to configure, manage, and scale without adding complexity.
SANtricity OS
The EF-Series runs on the enterprise-proven NetApp SANtricity OS. Optimized for flash, the SANtricity OS enables you to maximize performance through extensive configuration flexibility and custom performance tuning.
SANtricity System Manager
The SANtricity System Manager graphical performance tools provide key information about storage I/O from multiple viewpoints, enabling administrators to make informed decisions about configuration adjustments to further refine performance. For more performance analysis, Splunk Enterprise and Grafana solutions are available.
High availability and enterprise reliability
Engineered for Business-Critical Apps
The NetApp EF-Series was engineered from the start to support applications that are at the heart of an organization's business. Built to provide enterprise reliability in both the architecture and the software design, the EF-Series leverages expertise based on more than 20 years of development experience and more than 1 million implemented systems.
Greater than 99.9999% Availability
Fully redundant I/O paths, advanced data protection features, and extensive diagnostic capabilities allow the EF-Series to achieve greater than 99.9999% availability with data integrity and security.
Secure data, secure management
SANtricity Drive Encryption
NetApp SANtricity drive encryption combines key management with drive-level encryption. This combination creates comprehensive security for data at rest with no impact to performance. Because all drives eventually leave the data center through redeployment, retirement, or service, you can be assured that your sensitive data is not leaving with them.
Key Management Options
You can choose to manage the drive authentication keys natively for a simple, low-cost solution or use a KMIP-compliant external key manager for centralized administration.
Management Access Protection
Management access to the EF-Series is protected with role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP/Active Directory integration.
Advanced data protection
SANtricity Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP)
SANtricity Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP) technology enables storage administrators to simplify RAID management, improve data protection, and maintain predictable performance under every condition. DDP technology evenly distributes data, protection information, and spare capacity across the drives, simplifying setup and maximizing use.
Faster Rebuild Times
This innovative technology minimizes the performance impact of a drive failure and can return the system to optimal condition up to 8 times faster than traditional RAID. With shorter rebuild times and exclusive technology to prioritize critical reconstruction, DDP significantly reduces exposure to multiple failures, offering a level of data protection that simply cannot be achieved with traditional RAID.
SANtricity OS Online Capabilities
- Dynamic capacity and volume expansion enable administrators to increase the capacity of an existing pool, volume group, or volume.
- Dynamic segment size migration enables administrators to change the segment size of a given volume.
- Dynamic RAID-level migration changes the level of a RAID group on the existing drives without requiring the relocation of data. Supported RAID levels are 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10.
- All software/firmware updates (controller, drive) are nondisruptive, with no interruption to data access. Administrators can use the SANtricity remote storage feature to perform online import of remote volumes over iSCSI.
Validated solution reference designs
Tested Solution Designs
With tested solution designs for high-transaction databases, AI with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, and real-time analytics using Splunk, your demanding business applications with large throughput requirements built on EF-Series systems will consistently deliver high performance. You can focus on growing your business instead of worrying about your data infrastructure.
ASHRAE compliance
ASHRAE A4 Compliant
All EF-Series systems meet the certification requirements of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, a global society that advances human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment. All EF-Series models are ASHRAE A4 compliant.
SANtricity System Manager Software - High availability
High Availability Features
- Dual active controller with automated I/O path failover
- Automatic Load Balancing and path connectivity monitoring
- DDP technology and traditional RAID levels
- Redundant, hot-swappable storage controllers, disks, power supply units (PSUs), fans
- Automatic rebuild after a drive failure
- Mirrored data cache with battery-backed destaging to flash
- Proactive drive health monitoring
- Online upgrades and maintenance for software and firmware
- Online configuration, expansion, contraction, and tuning
- Data assurance (T10 PI ANSI standard for data integrity)
- NetApp Active IQ
- Six-nines availability (with appropriate configuration and service plans)
SANtricity System Manager Software - Data management
Data Management Features
- Remote storage online volume import (iSCSI)
- Dynamic Disk Pools technology and traditional RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10
- On-box SANtricity System Manager
- On-box SANtricity Web Services API
- SANtricity Unified Manager for enterprise management
- Smart NVMe SSD performance and endurance management
- SANtricity SSD read cache
SANtricity System Manager Software - Data protection
Data Protection Features
- SANtricity Snapshot copy
- SANtricity asynchronous mirroring (EF300, EF300C, EF600, and EF600C only)
SANtricity System Manager Software - Security and compliance
Security and Compliance Features
- RBAC with audit log
- LDAP/LDAPS for user authentication
- Digital certificate management
- Multifactor authentication (MFA) supported through SAML 2.0
- Internal key management supported with self-encrypting drive (SED) or FIPS drives
- External key management (KMIP-compliant) supported with SED or FIPS drives
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 minimum for all management communication
- SANtricity drive security data at rest encryption
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Technical Specifications
Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.
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Controller chassis form factor2U; 24 internal NVMe SSD slots
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SAS Expansion shelvesN/A
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Controller memory64GB
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Maximum SSDs (NVMe)24
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Maximum raw capacity in base system1.5PB
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Maximum raw capacity with expansion1.5PB
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Maximum IOPSUp to 5,000,000
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Maximum read bandwidth110GBps
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Maximum write bandwidth57GBps
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Power consumptionTypical: 1235W; Max: 1758W
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IO connectivity per array12 ports 200Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE
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Storage networking supportedNVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/FC, FC
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OS versionSANtricity OS 12.0 or later
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Host/Client OS supportedWindows Server, Linux, MacOS, VMware
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Controller chassis form factor2U; 24 internal NVMe SSD slots
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SAS Expansion shelvesN/A
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Controller memory32GB
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Maximum SSDs (NVMe)24
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Maximum raw capacity in base system1.5PB
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Maximum raw capacity with expansion1.5PB
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Maximum IOPSUp to 1,700,000
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Maximum read bandwidth41GBps
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Maximum write bandwidth30GBps
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Power consumptionTypical: 1041W; Max: 1451W
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IO connectivity per array16 ports 64Gb NVMe/FC; 16 ports 64Gb SCSI FC; 24 ports 64Gb NVMe/FC; 24 ports 64Gb SCSI FC
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Storage networking supportedNVMe/FC, FC
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OS versionSANtricity OS 12.0 or later
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Host/Client OS supportedWindows Server, Linux, MacOS, VMware
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Controller chassis form factor2U; 24 internal NVMe SSD slots
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SAS Expansion shelvesHybrid: 4U with 60 slots and 2U with 12 slots; All-flash: 2U with 24 SAS SSD slots
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Controller memory32GB, 128GB
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Maximum SSDs (NVMe)24
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Maximum raw capacity in base system367TB
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Maximum raw capacity with expansion9.6PB hybrid, or 1.8PB all-SSD
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Maximum IOPSUp to 2,000,000
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Maximum read bandwidth44GBps
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Maximum write bandwidth13GBps
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Power consumptionTypical: 979W; Max: 1128W
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IO connectivity per array4 ports 200Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE; 4 ports 200Gb iSER/IB; 8 ports 100Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe.RoCE; 8 ports 100Gb iSER/IB, SRP/IB; 8 ports 25Gb iSCSI; 16 ports 32 Gb NVMe/FC; 16 ports 32Gb SCSI FC; 16 ports 25Gb iSCSI
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Storage networking supportedNVMe/IB, iSER/IB, SRP/IB, NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI
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OS versionSANtricity OS 11.70R1 or later
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Host/Client OS supportedWindows Server, Linux, MacOS, VMware
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Controller chassis form factor2U; 24 internal NVMe SSD slots
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SAS Expansion shelvesN/A
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Controller memory32GB, 128GB
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Maximum SSDs (NVMe)24
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Maximum raw capacity in base system1.5PB
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Maximum raw capacity with expansion1.5PB
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Maximum IOPSUp to 1,000,000
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Maximum read bandwidth44GBps
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Maximum write bandwidth13GBps
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Power consumptionTypical: 979W; Max: 1128W
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IO connectivity per array4 ports 200Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE; 4 ports 200Gb iSER/IB; 8 ports 100Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe.RoCE; 8 ports 100Gb iSER/IB, SRP/IB; 8 ports 25Gb iSCSI; 16 ports 32 Gb NVMe/FC; 16 ports 32Gb SCSI FC; 16 ports 25Gb iSCSI
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Storage networking supportedNVMe/IB, iSER/IB, SRP/IB, NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI
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OS versionSANtricity OS 11.90 GA or later
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Shelves and mediaDE212C (2U, 12 drives, 3.5" NL-SAS and 2.5" SAS); DE224C (2U, 24 drives, 2.5" SAS); DE460C (4U, 60 drive, 3.5" NL-SAS and 2.5" SAS)
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Host/Client OS supportedWindows Server, Linux, MacOS, VMware
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Controller chassis form factor2U; 24 internal NVMe SSD slots
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SAS Expansion shelvesHybrid: 4U with 60 slots and 2U with 12 slots; All-flash: 2U with 24 SAS SSD slots
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Controller memory16GB
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Maximum SSDs (NVMe)24
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Maximum raw capacity in base system367TB
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Maximum raw capacity with expansion5.7PB hybrid, or 1.8PB all-SSD
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Maximum IOPSUp to 670,000
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Maximum read bandwidth20GBps
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Maximum write bandwidth7GBps
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Power consumptionTypical: 643W; Max: 870W
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IO connectivity per array4 ports 100Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE; 4 ports 100Gb iSER/IB, SRP/IB; 8 ports 32 Gb NVMe/FC; 8 ports 32Gb SCSI FC
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Storage networking supportedNVMe/IB, iSER/IB, SRP/IB, NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI
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OS versionSANtricity OS 11.70R1 or later
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Host/Client OS supportedWindows Server, Linux, MacOS, VMware
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Controller chassis form factor2U; 24 internal NVMe SSD slots
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SAS Expansion shelvesN/A
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Controller memory16GB
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Maximum SSDs (NVMe)24
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Maximum raw capacity in base system1.5PB
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Maximum raw capacity with expansion1.5PB
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Maximum IOPSUp to 350,000
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Maximum read bandwidth20GBps
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Maximum write bandwidth7GBps
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Power consumptionTypical: 643W; Max: 870W
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IO connectivity per array4 ports 100Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE; 4 ports 100Gb iSER/IB, SRP/IB; 8 ports 32 Gb NVMe/FC; 8 ports 32Gb SCSI FC
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Storage networking supportedNVMe/IB, iSER/IB, SRP/IB, NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI
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OS versionSANtricity OS 11.90 GA or later
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Shelves and mediaDE212C (2U, 12 drives, 3.5" NL-SAS and 2.5" SAS); DE224C (2U, 24 drives, 2.5" SAS); DE460C (4U, 60 drive, 3.5" NL-SAS and 2.5" SAS)
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Host/Client OS supportedWindows Server, Linux, MacOS, VMware
Compare NetApp EF-Series All-Flash Arrays Series
Select the right scale for your workload demands.
| Model Name | Max Capacity | Port Config | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| EF80 | 1.5PB | 12 ports 200Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE | Get Quote |
| EF50 | 1.5PB | 16 ports 64Gb NVMe/FC; 16 ports 64Gb SCSI FC; 24 ports 64Gb NVMe/FC; 24 ports 64Gb SCSI FC | Get Quote |
| EF600 | 367TB base; 9.6PB hybrid, or 1.8PB all-SSD with expansion | 4 ports 200Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE; 4 ports 200Gb iSER/IB; 8 ports 100Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe.RoCE; 8 ports 100Gb iSER/IB, SRP/IB; 8 ports 25Gb iSCSI; 16 ports 32 Gb NVMe/FC; 16 ports 32Gb SCSI FC; 16 ports 25Gb iSCSI | Get Quote |
| EF600C | 1.5PB | 4 ports 200Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE; 4 ports 200Gb iSER/IB; 8 ports 100Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe.RoCE; 8 ports 100Gb iSER/IB, SRP/IB; 8 ports 25Gb iSCSI; 16 ports 32 Gb NVMe/FC; 16 ports 32Gb SCSI FC; 16 ports 25Gb iSCSI | Get Quote |
| EF300 | 367TB base; 5.7PB hybrid, or 1.8PB all-SSD with expansion | 4 ports 100Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE; 4 ports 100Gb iSER/IB, SRP/IB; 8 ports 32 Gb NVMe/FC; 8 ports 32Gb SCSI FC | Get Quote |
| EF300C | 1.5PB | 4 ports 100Gb NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE; 4 ports 100Gb iSER/IB, SRP/IB; 8 ports 32 Gb NVMe/FC; 8 ports 32Gb SCSI FC | Get Quote |
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