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NetApp AFF A1K
High-end · all-flash · dual controller - Flagship modular all-NVMe ONTAP platform for the largest mission-critical and AI clusters, up to 40M IOPS per cluster.
| Platform | |
|---|---|
| OEM | NetApp |
| Family | AFF A-Series |
| Class | High-end |
| Architecture | Dual controller (HA pair) |
| Status | Current |
| Released | n/a |
| Operating system | ONTAP 9.15.1 or later |
| Controllers | 2 |
| Nodes | 2 - 24 |
| Cache / memory | 2,048 GB |
| Availability | 99.9999% |
| Capacity and media | |
| Media | All-flash |
| Drive types | NVMe SSD |
| Drive note | NVMe SSDs; HA pair = two 2U controller chassis (no internal drives; requires NS224 shelves); expansion via NS224 (2U, 24 SFF NVMe) shelves |
| Flash drive sizes | n/a |
| HDD sizes | n/a |
| Maximum drives | n/a |
| Controller enclosure | 4U |
| Expansion | NS224 (2U, 24 SFF NVMe SSDs) - 24 bays, 2U |
| Raw capacity | 14.69 PB |
| Cluster maximum | 176.3 PB |
| Effective maximum | 330 PB |
| Data reduction | Datasheet effective capacity is per cluster at maximum scale-out with all SSDs, assuming 5:1 storage efficiency; NetApp Storage Efficiency Guarantee is 4:1 for SAN and 1.5:1 for NAS workloads (AFF product page). |
| Protection | RAID4, RAID-DP, RAID-TEC |
| Protection note | ONTAP local tiers support RAID4, RAID-DP and RAID-TEC (ONTAP docs). Tamperproof Snapshot copies and SnapLock WORM, SnapMirror replication, MetroCluster / SnapMirror active sync for zero-RPO business continuity, Autonomous Ransomware Protection, Ransomware Recovery Guarantee. |
| Performance and connectivity | |
| Maximum IOPS | 40,000,000 |
| Maximum throughput | 1,000 GB/s |
| Latency | 100 µs |
| Conditions | raw_tb_max is per HA pair; cluster_raw_tb_max is the NAS maximum (12 HA pairs / 24 nodes) from docs key specs. SAN clusters are limited to 6 HA pairs / 12 nodes (88.1 PB raw). Datasheet: up to 2,880 SSDs per 24-node cluster (per-HA-pair drive maximum not published, so drives_max is null). effective_tb_max is the datasheet per-cluster figure. host_ports_max is the largest single-protocol host port count in the docs 'Total I/O' table (ports share 18 PCIe slots). Latency 'as low as 100 microseconds' is an AFF A-Series family claim. power_w is the datasheet median power with NS224. 40M IOPS and 1 TBps are per-cluster figures from the datasheet and AFF product page. 'ib' denotes NFSv3/NFSv4 over RDMA support. |
| Protocols | Fibre Channel, NVMe over FC, iSCSI, NVMe over TCP, NFS, SMB / CIFS, S3 object, InfiniBand / RDMA file |
| Fibre Channel | 64 Gb |
| Ethernet | 200 GbE |
| Host ports | 56 |
| Limits | |
| Volumes / LUNs | n/a |
| File systems | n/a |
| Snapshots | n/a |
| Management and support | |
| Management | ONTAP on-box GUI (System Manager), REST APIs, NetApp Console (formerly BlueXP), Digital Advisor |
| Power | 2,718 W |
| Positioned for | Databases, Virtualization, VDI, AI / ML, Mission-critical, Containers |
| Warranty | n/a |
| Design terms | Local tier (aggregate) · LUN · igroup · SnapMirror (asynchronous) |
| Data services | |
✓ Deduplication
✓ Compression
✓ Thin provisioning
✓ Snapshots
✓ Clones
✓ Asynchronous replication
✓ Synchronous replication
✓ Active-active / metro
✓ Encryption at rest
✓ Immutable snapshots
✓ Ransomware detection
✓ Quality of service
? Automated tiering
✓ Cloud tiering
✓ VMware vVols
✓ Kubernetes CSI
✓ Native file services
✓ Native object (S3)
✓ Non-disruptive upgrades
✓ Scale-out
✓ stated by the OEM · ✕ not offered · ? not stated | |
| Source | |
| Product page | https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-systems/a1k/overview.html |
| Datasheet | https://www.netapp.com/media/7828-ds-3582-aff-a-series-ai-era.pdf |