Systems NetApp FAS6000 Series Improve business responsiveness and lower TCO with our platform for your largest enterprise applications and storage consolidations THE CHALLENGE storage infrastructure to meet your changing KEY BENEFITS Maximizing your business advantage business needs. To help you maximize staff productivity, all of our FAS systems share Respond to growth Enterprises across all industries face similar a unified storage architecture based on the When you’re ready to grow, we help data management demands as business Data ONTAP® 7G operating system and use you with nondisruptive expansion and needs rapidly evolve and data grows at our integrated suite of application-aware easy upgrades. You can grow to over an unrelenting pace. As a result, you are manageability software. You can minimize 1100TB of storage capacity. under constant pressure to deliver more and at higher levels of service. Yet critical the use of data center resources including Meet diverse needs resources—staffing, budget, power, cooling, —power, cooling, and floor space—by You can use our FAS6000 systems and floor space—are frequently constrained. taking advantage of our comprehensive for primary and secondary storage set of storage-saving software features in with simultaneous block and file To meet these demands, you need Data ONTAP. serving over Fibre Channel and enterprise storage systems that can: When you add massive scalability to other Ethernet networks. • Flex to support changing IT requirements characteristics of the FAS family, the result Increase performance • Accommodate continuous data growth is our FAS6000 series, the ideal platform Get high throughput and fast response • Satisfy application-level service for the largest applications and storage times for transaction processing, requirements consolidations. databases, and technical applications. • Reduce costs RESPOND QUICKLY TO GROWTH THE SOLUTION Improve application availability With our flagship FAS6080 and FAS6040 Get application-level recovery in NetApp® FAS6000 series for the largest systems, you can grow without worrying minutes, not hours. enterprise applications and storage about complicated system replacement. consolidations What sets our systems apart is their Lower TCO With our FAS6000 series you can efficiently massive storage and I/O scalability. With simplified deployment, admin- consolidate SAN, NAS, primary, and istration, and management, you can secondary storage on a single platform. MEET DIVERSE NEEDS enjoy lower total cost of ownership. You get the ultimate in scalability, versatility, With our unified architecture, you no longer and availability when you use our flagship need to manage separate NAS and SAN FAS6000 series. storage. You can manage both in a single system with our concurrent support for We’ve designed our systems to make them block and file protocols using Ethernet easy for you to install, configure, manage, and Fibre Channel interfaces, found in and upgrade so you can quickly adapt your all of our FAS systems. In addition, you can manage tiered • E-mail a very small amount of storage. Snapshot primary and secondary storage by using • Home directories creates up to 255 data-in-place, point-in- high-performance FC hard disk drives • Digital media time images per LUN or file system. and high-capacity SATA drives in your • Backup and recovery FAS6000 systems. • Archiving PARTNER FOR SUCCESS To help enable your success, our Global ® FlexClone, part of our Data ONTAP All of our NetApp FAS storage systems Services professionals work side by side ® ® ® operating system, lets you instantly create support Windows, UNIX, and Linux host with you. We offer a comprehensive portfolio ® clones with very little incremental storage operating systems, as well as VMware of support and service options that you can cost. You can use FlexClone to dramatically server virtualization. tailor to meet the needs of your data center. accelerate test and development cycles for your IT projects. IMPROVE RESILIENCY AND Our ConsultingEdge plan provides you AVAILABILITY with a complete, flexible set of consulting INCREASE PERFORMANCE To give you resilient system operation and services to help you plan, implement, and Your important applications require quick high data availability, we tightly integrate our optimize your storage infrastructure. response, even during times of heavy hardware systems with the Data ONTAP loading. To ensure fast response time 7G operating system. Our FAS systems Our SupportEdge Premium offers you a when serving data for multiple applications, use redundant, hot-swappable components, hybrid approach to support. It combines we include FlexShare™ quality-of-service and with our patented dual-parity RAID- expert on-site resources with innovative software as part of our Data ONTAP DP™ (our high-performance RAID 6), you remote capabilities. SupportEdge Premium operating system. FlexShare allows get superior data protection with little or services include: your storage administrators to set and no performance loss. For the highest levels • Hardware and software installation dynamically adjust workload priorities. of data availability, we provide optional • System monitoring mirroring and disaster recovery solutions. Our FAS6000 series has the muscle to • Proactive notification consolidate and serve data for a wide You can simultaneously protect your • Immediate reactive support variety of workloads, including: production data while taking nothing away • Remote diagnostics from your system’s performance with • A blend of remote and on-site repair • Business applications our FAS6000 series. With our Snapshot™ • Quarterly storage availability audits • Technical applications technology you get near-instantaneous • Software subscription plan • Databases file-level or full data set recovery, while using Frame Array Storage Downtime Costs Other Modular Management Storage FAS6000 SERIES OVERVIEW FAS6040 FAS6080 Costs Storage networking support FC SAN (FCP), IP SAN (iSCSI, FCoE), NAS (NFS, CIFS) NetApp Storage Maximum raw capacity 840TB 1176TB Maximum disk drives 840 1176 Controller architecture 64-bit 64-bit Acquisition Costs Memory 32GB 64GB Maximum 4Gb/sec FC ports 80 80 Support for 8Gb/sec FC Figure 1) Proven lower TCO. Maximum Ethernet ports 76 76 Studies by Mercer Management Consulting show 10GbE support that your total cost of ownership for our storage systems is substantially lower than that of storage Notes: from other major vendors. Read the full reports at 1. Specifications listed here are for active, dual controller configurations. www.netapp.com/tco. 2. 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