NetApp FAS Storage Arrays

Flexibly adapt to evolving business needs with industry-leading hybrid flash storage.

Simplify at scale by using FAS for backup and/or tiering and/or cyber vault on the same NetApp ONTAP^® OS as the rest of your hybrid cloud environment.

Consolidate your 3-2-1 backup strategy entirely on a single cloud-connected storage OS and enjoy seamless integration with backup software vendors.

Leverage policy-based data tiering that frees primary storage capacity.

The FAS family has the flexibility to keep up with your growing business as your capacity and performance requirements change. Scale up by adding capacity or by upgrading controllers. Scale out by growing from 2 nodes up to a 24-node cluster with 176PB of capacity. Plus, you can cluster different combinations of FAS and AFF models to build out your environment by adding new generations of storage with the latest technologies.

The FAS family also supports massive NAS containers, which are easy to manage. With the NetApp FlexGroup feature of ONTAP 9, a single namespace can grow to 20PB and 400 billion files while maintaining consistent high performance and resilience.

With nondisruptive addition and replacement of storage systems and components, scaling occurs without maintenance windows or the challenge of coordinating downtime across teams. And you can perform your updates during regular work hours.

FAS systems running ONTAP are optimized for private and hybrid cloud by providing secure multitenancy, quality of service, nondisruptive operations, and easily defined tiers of service. Plus, NetApp offers a number of options for extending your FAS system to the hybrid cloud with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other leading cloud providers. Easily move your data between your on-premises FAS system and cloud environments by using NetApp SnapMirror^® data replication software.

• Simplify and speed up day-to-day management activities with ONTAP System Manager. The new GUI provides quick insights into capacity, system health, networking, and performance history.
• Streamline your management of multiple storage clusters with NetApp Active IQ^® Unified Manager. Boost the efficiency of your staff by monitoring petabytes of data from a single dashboard, and receive notifications to quickly resolve issues before they affect data services. The latest version of Active IQ Unified Manager provides insights and advice on security risks and compliance.

Use the insights and recommendations derived from predictive analytics and community wisdom to optimize and protect your storage investments with Active IQ. Expose risk factors and prevent problems before they affect your business. Benefit from insights and best-practice recommendations derived from the collective wisdom of NetApp's large user base. Implement this actionable intelligence to prevent problems, save time, and make smarter decisions when managing your infrastructure with ONTAP System Manager and Active IQ Unified Manager.

NetApp BlueXP simplifies storage and data services management as the unified control plane across your entire data estate, including FAS systems designed for secondary workloads. By leveraging BlueXP, businesses can seamlessly manage on-premises and cloud environments, utilizing familiar ONTAP OS tools and workflows. BlueXP breaks down management silos though unified control of your intelligent data infrastructure, that is powered by AIOps, automates workflows,. It delivers real-time health monitoring, and offers actionable insights with guided remediation, to optimize performance and prevent downtime. This unified management approach enhances operational simplicity, ensures robust data protection, and maximizes ROI through intelligent automation and resource optimization. Storage efficiencies such as compression, deduplication, and compaction are preserved when moving data to FAS, reducing required object storage capacity and transport costs.