NetApp filer
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In computer storage
, NetApp filer, known also as NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS), or NetApp's network attached storage (NAS) device are NetApp's offering in the area of Storage Systems. A FAS functions in an enterprise-class Storage area network
(SAN) as well as a networked storage appliance. It can serve storage over a network using file-based protocols such as NFS, CIFS, FTP, TFTP, and HTTP. Filers can also serve data over block-based protocols such as Fibre Channel
(FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) and iSCSI
.
NetApp Filers implement their physical storage in large disk array
s.
Most other large storage vendors' filers tend to use commodity computers with an operating system
such as Microsoft Windows Storage Server or tuned Linux
. NetApp filers use highly customized hardware and the proprietary
Data ONTAP operating system, both originally designed by founders David Hitz
and James Lau specifically for storage-serving purposes. Data ONTAP is NetApp's internal operating system, specially optimised for storage functions at high and low level, it is booted from FreeBSD
as a stand-alone kernel-space module and use some functions of FreeBSD
(command interpreter and drivers stack, for example).
All filers have battery-backed NVRAM
, which allows them to commit writes to stable storage quickly, without waiting on disks. Early filers connected to external disk enclosure
s via SCSI
, while modern models use FC and SAS protocol. The disk enclosures (shelves) support FC hard disk drives, as well as parallel ATA, serial ATA
and Serial attached SCSI
.
Implementers often organize two filers in a high-availability cluster
with a private high-speed link, either Fibre Channel
, InfiniBand
, or 10G Ethernet
. One can additionally group such clusters together under a single namespace when running in the "cluster mode" of the Data ONTAP 8 operating system.
. Each Filer has a proprietary NVRAM
adapter to log all writes for performance and to play the data log forward in the event of an unplanned shutdown. One can link two filers together as a cluster, which NetApp (as of 2009) refers to using the less ambiguous term "Active/Active".
The Data ONTAP operating system implements a single proprietary file-system called WAFL
. When used for file storage, Data ONTAP acts as an NFS server and/or a CIFS server, serving files to both Unix-like
clients and to Microsoft Windows
clients from the same file systems. This makes it possible for Unix and Windows to share files by the use of three security styles: mixed, ntfs, and unix. Data ONTAP supports user, group, and tree-based quotas (referred to as q-trees) and allows for data segregation and management within volumes. Qtrees with the UNIX security style will preserve the standard Unix permission-bits, the NTFS security style will preserve NT ACLs found in the Windows environment, and the mixed security allows the use of both interchangeably (with minor loss of fidelity).
Since 2002, all NetApp FAS systems can also work as SAN storage over "block-based" protocols - FC, iSCSI, FCoE (since 2007).
Each filer model comes with a set configuration of processor, RAM and NVRAM, which users cannot expand after purchase. With the exception of some of the entry point storage controllers, the NetApp filers have at least one PCIe-based slot available for additional network, tape and/or disk connections. In June 2008 NetApp announced the Performance Acceleration Module (or PAM) to optimize the performance of workloads which carry out intensive random reads. This optional card goes into a PCIe slot and provides additional memory (or cache) between the disk and the filer RAM/NVRAM, thus improving performance.
NetApp supports either SATA
, Fibre Channel
, or SAS
disk drives, which it groups into RAID
(Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks) groups of up to 28 (26 data disks plus 2 parity disks). Multiple RAID groups form an "aggregate"; and within aggregates Data ONTAP operating system sets up "flexible volumes" to actually store data that users can access. An alternative is "Traditional volumes" where one or more RAID groups form a single static volume. Flexible volumes offer the advantage that many of them can be created on a single aggregate and resized at any time. Smaller volumes can then share all of the spindles available to the underlying aggregate. Traditional volumes and aggregates can only be expanded, never contracted. However, Traditional volumes can (theoretically) handle slightly higher I/O throughput than flexible volumes (with the same number of spindles), as they do not have to go through an additional viritualisation layer to talk to the underlying disk.
WAFL, as a robust versioning filesystem, provides snapshot
s, which allow end-users to see earlier versions of files in the file system. Snapshots appear in a hidden directory:
Data ONTAP implements snapshots by tracking changes to disk-blocks between snapshot operations. It can set up snapshots in seconds because it only needs to take a copy of the root inode
in the filesystem. This differs from the snapshots provided by some other storage vendors in which every block of storage has to be copied, which can take many hours.
Snapshots form the basis for NetApp disk replication technology SnapMirror, which effectively replicates snapshots between two NetApp filers. Later versions of Data ONTAP introduced cascading replication, where one volume could replicate to another and then another etc. NetApp also offers a backup product based around replicating and storing snapshots, called SnapVault. Open Systems SnapVault allows Windows and UNIX hosts to back up data to a NetApp filer and store any filesystem changes in snapshots.
Data ONTAP also implements an option called "SyncMirror" where all the RAID groups within an aggregate or traditional volume can be duplicated to another set of hard disks, typically at another site via a Fibre Channel link. NetApp provides a "MetroCluster" option, that uses "SyncMirror" to provide a geo-cluster or active/active cluster between two sites up to 100 km apart.
Other product options include "SnapLock" which implements a "Write Once Read Many
" functionality on magnetic disks instead of to optical media, so that data cannot be deleted until its retention period has been reached. SnapLock exists in two modes: compliance and enterprise. The compliance mode was designed to assist organizations in implementing a comprehensive archival solution that meets strict regulatory retention requirements such as dictated by the SEC and several healthcare governing bodies. Records and files committed to WORM storage on a SnapLock Compliance volume cannot be altered or deleted before the expiration of their retention period. Moreover, a SnapLock Compliance volume cannot be destroyed until all data have reached the end of their retention period.
SnapLock Enterprise is geared toward assisting organizations that are more self-regulated and want to have greater flexibility in protecting digital assets with WORM-type data storage. Data stored as WORM on a SnapLock Enterprise volume are protected from alteration or modification with one main difference from SnapLock Compliance: as the files being stored are not for strict regulatory compliance, a SnapLock Enterprise volume can be destroyed by an administrator with root privileges on the FAS system containing the SnapLock Enterprise volume, even if the designed retention period has not yet passed. In both modes, the retention period can be extended, but not shortened, as this is incongruous with the concept of immutability. In addition, NetApp SnapLock data volumes are equipped with a tamper-proof compliance clock that is used as a time reference to block forbidden operations on files, even if the system time is tampered with.
NetApp also offers products for taking application-consistent snapshots by coordinating the application and the NetApp Storage Array. These products support Microsoft Exchange
, Microsoft SQL Server
, Microsoft Sharepoint
, Oracle
, SAP
and VMware ESX Server
data. These products form part of the SnapManager suite.
The limitation on aggregate size, coupled with increasing density of disk drives, served to limit the performance of the overall system. NetApp, like most storage vendors, increases overall system performance by parallelizing disk writes to many different spindles (disk drives). Large capacity drives, therefore limit the number of spindles that can be added to a single aggregate, and therefore limit the aggregate performance.
Each aggregate also incurs a storage capacity overhead of approximately 7-11%, depending on the disk type. On systems with many aggregates this can result in lost storage capacity.
However, the overhead comes about due to additional block-checksumming on the disk level as well as usual file system overhead, similar to the overhead in file systems like NTFS or EXT3. Block checksumming helps to insure that data errors at the disk drive level do not result in data loss.
Data ONTAP 8.0 supports a new 64bit aggregate format, which increases the size limit to approximately 100TB (depending on storage platform) thus restoring the ability to configure large spindle counts to increase performance and storage efficiency. (http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3786.pdf)
Note: EOA = End of Availability
SPECsfs with "*" is clustered result. SPECsfs performed include SPECsfs93, SPECsfs97, SPECsfs97_R1 and SPECsfs2008. Note that results of different benchmark versions are not comparable.
Check spec.org for more details.
Computer storage
Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to computer components and recording media that retain digital data. Data storage is one of the core functions and fundamental components of computers....
, NetApp filer, known also as NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS), or NetApp's network attached storage (NAS) device are NetApp's offering in the area of Storage Systems. A FAS functions in an enterprise-class Storage area network
Storage area network
A storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...
(SAN) as well as a networked storage appliance. It can serve storage over a network using file-based protocols such as NFS, CIFS, FTP, TFTP, and HTTP. Filers can also serve data over block-based protocols such as Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
(FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Fibre Channel over Ethernet is an encapsulation of Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet networks. This allows Fibre Channel to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks while preserving the Fibre Channel protocol...
(FCoE) and iSCSI
ISCSI
In computing, iSCSI , is an abbreviation of Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol -based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage...
.
NetApp Filers implement their physical storage in large disk array
Disk array
A disk array is a disk storage system which contains multiple disk drives. It is differentiated from a disk enclosure, in that an array has cache memory and advanced functionality, like RAID and virtualization.Components of a typical disk array include:...
s.
Most other large storage vendors' filers tend to use commodity computers with an operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
such as Microsoft Windows Storage Server or tuned Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
. NetApp filers use highly customized hardware and the proprietary
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...
Data ONTAP operating system, both originally designed by founders David Hitz
David Hitz
David Hitz is an American engineer. In 1992, he and James Lau founded NetApp, where he became an executive vice president.A graduate of Deep Springs College, David earned a BSE from Princeton University and went on to work as a senior engineer at Auspex and as an engineer at MIPS Computer...
and James Lau specifically for storage-serving purposes. Data ONTAP is NetApp's internal operating system, specially optimised for storage functions at high and low level, it is booted from FreeBSD
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
as a stand-alone kernel-space module and use some functions of FreeBSD
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
(command interpreter and drivers stack, for example).
All filers have battery-backed NVRAM
NVRAM
Non-volatile random-access memory is random-access memory that retains its information when power is turned off, which is described technically as being non-volatile...
, which allows them to commit writes to stable storage quickly, without waiting on disks. Early filers connected to external disk enclosure
Disk enclosure
A disk enclosure is essentially a specialized chassis designed to hold and power disk drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more separate computers. Drive enclosures provide power to the drives therein and convert the data sent across their native data bus into a...
s via SCSI
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, and electrical and optical interfaces. SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it...
, while modern models use FC and SAS protocol. The disk enclosures (shelves) support FC hard disk drives, as well as parallel ATA, serial ATA
Serial ATA
Serial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
and Serial attached SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
.
Implementers often organize two filers in a high-availability cluster
High-availability cluster
High-availability clusters are groups of computers that support server applications that can be reliably utilized with a minimum of down-time. They operate by harnessing redundant computers in groups or clusters that provide continued service when system components fail...
with a private high-speed link, either Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
, InfiniBand
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link used in high-performance computing and enterprise data centers. Its features include high throughput, low latency, quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable...
, or 10G Ethernet
10 Gigabit Ethernet
The 10 gigabit Ethernet computer networking standard was first published in 2002. It defines a version of Ethernet with a nominal data rate of 10 Gbit/s , ten times faster than gigabit Ethernet.10 gigabit Ethernet defines only full duplex point to point links which are generally connected by...
. One can additionally group such clusters together under a single namespace when running in the "cluster mode" of the Data ONTAP 8 operating system.
Internal architecture
Most NetApp filers consist of customized computers with Intel or AMD processors using PCIPeripheral Component Interconnect
Conventional PCI is a computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer...
. Each Filer has a proprietary NVRAM
NVRAM
Non-volatile random-access memory is random-access memory that retains its information when power is turned off, which is described technically as being non-volatile...
adapter to log all writes for performance and to play the data log forward in the event of an unplanned shutdown. One can link two filers together as a cluster, which NetApp (as of 2009) refers to using the less ambiguous term "Active/Active".
The Data ONTAP operating system implements a single proprietary file-system called WAFL
Write Anywhere File Layout
The Write Anywhere File Layout is a file layout that supports large, high-performance RAID arrays, quick restarts without lengthy consistency checks in the event of a crash or power failure , and growing the filesystems size quickly. It was designed by NetApp for use in its storage appliances...
. When used for file storage, Data ONTAP acts as an NFS server and/or a CIFS server, serving files to both Unix-like
Unix-like
A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
clients and to Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
clients from the same file systems. This makes it possible for Unix and Windows to share files by the use of three security styles: mixed, ntfs, and unix. Data ONTAP supports user, group, and tree-based quotas (referred to as q-trees) and allows for data segregation and management within volumes. Qtrees with the UNIX security style will preserve the standard Unix permission-bits, the NTFS security style will preserve NT ACLs found in the Windows environment, and the mixed security allows the use of both interchangeably (with minor loss of fidelity).
Since 2002, all NetApp FAS systems can also work as SAN storage over "block-based" protocols - FC, iSCSI, FCoE (since 2007).
Each filer model comes with a set configuration of processor, RAM and NVRAM, which users cannot expand after purchase. With the exception of some of the entry point storage controllers, the NetApp filers have at least one PCIe-based slot available for additional network, tape and/or disk connections. In June 2008 NetApp announced the Performance Acceleration Module (or PAM) to optimize the performance of workloads which carry out intensive random reads. This optional card goes into a PCIe slot and provides additional memory (or cache) between the disk and the filer RAM/NVRAM, thus improving performance.
NetApp supports either SATA
Sata
Sata is a traditional dish from the Malaysian state of Terengganu, consisting of spiced fish meat wrapped in banana leaves and cooked on a grill.It is a type of Malaysian fish cake, or otak-otak...
, Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
, or SAS
Serial Attached SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
disk drives, which it groups into RAID
RAID
RAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit...
(Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks) groups of up to 28 (26 data disks plus 2 parity disks). Multiple RAID groups form an "aggregate"; and within aggregates Data ONTAP operating system sets up "flexible volumes" to actually store data that users can access. An alternative is "Traditional volumes" where one or more RAID groups form a single static volume. Flexible volumes offer the advantage that many of them can be created on a single aggregate and resized at any time. Smaller volumes can then share all of the spindles available to the underlying aggregate. Traditional volumes and aggregates can only be expanded, never contracted. However, Traditional volumes can (theoretically) handle slightly higher I/O throughput than flexible volumes (with the same number of spindles), as they do not have to go through an additional viritualisation layer to talk to the underlying disk.
WAFL, as a robust versioning filesystem, provides snapshot
Snapshot (computer storage)
In computer systems, a snapshot is the state of a system at a particular point in time. The term was coined as an analogy to that in photography. It can refer to an actual copy of the state of a system or to a capability provided by certain systems....
s, which allow end-users to see earlier versions of files in the file system. Snapshots appear in a hidden directory:
~snapshot for Windows (CIFS) or .snapshot for Unix (NFS). Up to 255 snapshots can be made of any traditional or flexible volume. Snapshots are read-only, although Data ONTAP 7 provides additional ability to make writable "virtual clones", based at "WAFL snapshots" technique, as "FlexClones".Data ONTAP implements snapshots by tracking changes to disk-blocks between snapshot operations. It can set up snapshots in seconds because it only needs to take a copy of the root inode
Inode
In computing, an inode is a data structure on a traditional Unix-style file system such as UFS. An inode stores all the information about a regular file, directory, or other file system object, except its data and name....
in the filesystem. This differs from the snapshots provided by some other storage vendors in which every block of storage has to be copied, which can take many hours.
Snapshots form the basis for NetApp disk replication technology SnapMirror, which effectively replicates snapshots between two NetApp filers. Later versions of Data ONTAP introduced cascading replication, where one volume could replicate to another and then another etc. NetApp also offers a backup product based around replicating and storing snapshots, called SnapVault. Open Systems SnapVault allows Windows and UNIX hosts to back up data to a NetApp filer and store any filesystem changes in snapshots.
Data ONTAP also implements an option called "SyncMirror" where all the RAID groups within an aggregate or traditional volume can be duplicated to another set of hard disks, typically at another site via a Fibre Channel link. NetApp provides a "MetroCluster" option, that uses "SyncMirror" to provide a geo-cluster or active/active cluster between two sites up to 100 km apart.
Other product options include "SnapLock" which implements a "Write Once Read Many
Write Once Read Many
A Write Once Read Many or WORM drive is a data storage device where information, once written, cannot be modified. On ordinary data storage devices, the number of times data can be modified is not limited, except by the rated lifespan of the device, as modification involves physical changes that...
" functionality on magnetic disks instead of to optical media, so that data cannot be deleted until its retention period has been reached. SnapLock exists in two modes: compliance and enterprise. The compliance mode was designed to assist organizations in implementing a comprehensive archival solution that meets strict regulatory retention requirements such as dictated by the SEC and several healthcare governing bodies. Records and files committed to WORM storage on a SnapLock Compliance volume cannot be altered or deleted before the expiration of their retention period. Moreover, a SnapLock Compliance volume cannot be destroyed until all data have reached the end of their retention period.
SnapLock Enterprise is geared toward assisting organizations that are more self-regulated and want to have greater flexibility in protecting digital assets with WORM-type data storage. Data stored as WORM on a SnapLock Enterprise volume are protected from alteration or modification with one main difference from SnapLock Compliance: as the files being stored are not for strict regulatory compliance, a SnapLock Enterprise volume can be destroyed by an administrator with root privileges on the FAS system containing the SnapLock Enterprise volume, even if the designed retention period has not yet passed. In both modes, the retention period can be extended, but not shortened, as this is incongruous with the concept of immutability. In addition, NetApp SnapLock data volumes are equipped with a tamper-proof compliance clock that is used as a time reference to block forbidden operations on files, even if the system time is tampered with.
NetApp also offers products for taking application-consistent snapshots by coordinating the application and the NetApp Storage Array. These products support Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products...
, Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...
, Microsoft Sharepoint
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide...
, Oracle
Oracle Database
The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
, SAP
SAP AG
SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...
and VMware ESX Server
VMware ESX Server
VMware ESX is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc. ESX is a component of VMware's larger offering, VMware Infrastructure, and adds management and reliability services to the core server product...
data. These products form part of the SnapManager suite.
Previous limitations
Prior to the release of ONTAP 8, individual aggregate sizes were limited to a maximum of 2TB for FAS250 models and 16TB for all other models.The limitation on aggregate size, coupled with increasing density of disk drives, served to limit the performance of the overall system. NetApp, like most storage vendors, increases overall system performance by parallelizing disk writes to many different spindles (disk drives). Large capacity drives, therefore limit the number of spindles that can be added to a single aggregate, and therefore limit the aggregate performance.
Each aggregate also incurs a storage capacity overhead of approximately 7-11%, depending on the disk type. On systems with many aggregates this can result in lost storage capacity.
However, the overhead comes about due to additional block-checksumming on the disk level as well as usual file system overhead, similar to the overhead in file systems like NTFS or EXT3. Block checksumming helps to insure that data errors at the disk drive level do not result in data loss.
Data ONTAP 8.0 supports a new 64bit aggregate format, which increases the size limit to approximately 100TB (depending on storage platform) thus restoring the ability to configure large spindle counts to increase performance and storage efficiency. (http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3786.pdf)
Model history
This list may omit some models. Information taken from spec.org, netapp.com and storageperformance.org| Model | Status | Released | CPU | Main memory | NVRAM | Raw capacity | Benchmark | SPECsfs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FASServer 400 | Discontinued | Jan 1993 | 50 MHz Intel i486 | ? MB | 4 MB | 14 GB | ? | |
| FASServer 450 | Discontinued | Jan 1994 | 50 MHz Intel i486 | ? MB | 4 MB | 14 GB | ? | |
| FASServer 1300 | Discontinued | Jan 1994 | 50 MHz Intel i486 | ? MB | 4 MB | 14 GB | ? | |
| FASServer 1400 | Discontinued | Jan 1994 | 50 MHz Intel i486 | ? MB | 4 MB | 14 GB | ? | |
| FASServer | Discontinued | Jan 1995 | 50 MHz Intel i486 | 256 MB | 4 MB | ? GB | 640 | |
| F330 | Discontinued | Sept 1995 | 90 MHz Intel Pentium | 256 MB | 8 MB | 117 GB | 1310 | |
| F220 | Discontinued | Feb 1996 | 75 MHz Intel Pentium | 256 MB | 8 MB | ? GB | 754 | |
| F540 | Discontinued | June 1996 | 275 MHz DEC Alpha 21064A | 256 MB | 8 MB | ? GB | 2230 | |
| F210 | Discontinued | May 1997 | 75 MHz Intel Pentium | 256 MB | 8 MB | ? GB | 1113 | |
| F230 | Discontinued | May 1997 | 90 MHz Intel Pentium | 256 MB | 8 MB | ? GB | 1610 | |
| F520 | Discontinued | May 1997 | 275 MHz DEC Alpha 21064A | 256 MB | 8 MB | ? GB | 2361 | |
| F630 | Discontinued | June 1997 | 500 MHz DEC Alpha 21164A | 512 MB | 32 MB | ? GB | 4328 | |
| F720 | Discontinued | Aug 1998 | 400 MHz DEC Alpha 21164A | 256 MB | 8 MB | 464 GB | 2691 | |
| F740 | Discontinued | Aug 1998 | 400 MHz DEC Alpha 21164A | 512 MB | 32 MB | 928 GB | 5095 | |
| F760 | Discontinued | Aug 1998 | 600 MHz DEC Alpha 21164A | 1 GB | 32 MB | 1.39 TB | 7750 | |
| F85 | Discontinued | Feb 2001 | 256 MB | 64 MB | 648 GB | |||
| F87 | Discontinued | Dec 2001 | 256 MB | 64 MB | 576 GB | |||
| F810 | Discontinued | Dec 2001 | 733 MHz Intel P3 Coppermine | 512 MB | 128 MB | 1.5 TB | 4967 | |
| F820 | Discontinued | Dec 2000 | 733 MHz Intel P3 Coppermine | 1 GB | 128 MB | 3 TB | 8350 | |
| F825 | Discontinued | Aug 2002 | 733 MHz Intel P3 Coppermine | 1 GB | 128 MB | 3 TB | 8062 | |
| F840 | Discontinued | Aug/Dec? 2000 | 733 MHz Intel P3 Coppermine | 3 GB | 128 MB | 6 TB | 11873 | |
| F880 | Discontinued | July 2001 | Dual 733 MHz Intel P3 Coppermine | 3 GB | 128 MB | 9 TB | 17531 | |
| FAS920 | Discontinued | May 2004 | 2.0 GHz Intel P4 Xeon | 2 GB | 256 MB | 7 TB | 13460 | |
| FAS940 | Discontinued | Aug 2002 | 1.8 GHz Intel P4 Xeon | 3 GB | 256 MB | 14 TB | 17419 | |
| FAS960 | Discontinued | Aug 2002 | Dual 2.2 GHz Intel P4 Xeon | 6 GB | 256 MB | 28 TB | 25135 | |
| FAS980 | Discontinued | Jan 2004 | Dual 2.8 GHz Intel P4 Xeon MP 2 MB L3 | 8 GB | 512 MB | 50 TB | 36036 | |
| FAS250 | EOA 11/08 | Jan 2004 | 600 MHz Broadcom BCM1250 dual core MIPS | 512 MB | 64 MB | 4 TB | ||
| FAS270 | EOA 11/08 | Jan 2004 | 650 MHz Broadcom BCM1250 dual core MIPS | 1 GB | 128 MB | 16 TB | 13620* | |
| FAS2020 | June 2007 | 2.2 GHz Mobile Celeron | |1 GB | 128 MB | 68 TB | |||
| FAS2040 | Sept 2009 | 1.66 GHz Intel Xeon | 4 GB | 512 MB | 136 TB | |||
| FAS2050 | June 2007 | 2.2 GHz Mobile Celeron | 2 GB | 256 MB | 104 TB | 20027* | ||
| FAS2240 | November 2011 | 1.66 GHz Intel Xeon | 6 GB | |||||
| FAS3020 | EOA 4/09 | May 2005 | 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon | 2 GB | 512 MB | 84 TB | 34089* | |
| FAS3040 | EOA 4/09 | Feb 2007 | Dual 2.4 GHz AMD Opteron 250 | 4 GB | 512 MB | 336 TB | 60038* | |
| FAS3050 | Discontinued | May 2005 | Dual 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon | 4 GB | 512 MB | 168 TB | 47927* | |
| FAS3070 | EOA 4/09 | Nov 2006 | Dual 1.8 GHz AMD dual core Opteron | 8 GB | 512 MB | 504 TB | 85615* | |
| FAS3140 | EOA 2/12 | June 2008 | Single 2.4 GHz AMD Opteron Dual Core 2216 | 4 GB | 512 MB | 420 TB | SFS2008 | 40109* |
| FAS3160 | EOA 2/12 | |Dual 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron Dual Core 2218 | 8 GB | 2 GB | 672 TB | SFS2008 | 60409* | |
| FAS3170 | EOA 2/12 | June 2008 | Dual 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron Dual Core 2218 | 16 GB | 2 GB | 840 TB | SFS97_R1 | 137306* |
| FAS3210 | Nov 2010 | Dual 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon(tm) Processor (E5220) | 8 GB | 2 GB | 480 TB | SFS2008 | 64292 | |
| FAS3240 | Nov 2010 | Quad 2.33 GHz Intel Xeon(tm) Processor (Harpertown) | 16 GB | 2 GB | 1,200 TB | ?? | ?? | |
| FAS3270 | Nov 2010 | Dual 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon(tm) Processor (E5240) | 32 GB | 4 GB | 1,920 TB | SFS2008 | 101183 | |
| FAS6030 | EOA 6/09 | Mar 2006 | Dual 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron | 32 GB | 512 MB | 840 TB | SFS97_R1 | 100295* |
| FAS6040 | Dec 2007 | 2.6 GHz AMD dual core Opteron | 16 GB | 512 MB | 840 TB | |||
| FAS6070 | EOA 6/09 | Mar 2006 | Quad 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron | 64 GB | 2 GB | 1,008 TB | 136048* | |
| FAS6080 | Dec 2007 | 4 to 8 2.6 GHz AMD dual core Opteron | 64 GB | 4 GB | 1,176 TB | SFS2008 | 120011* | |
| FAS6080 | SFS97_R1 | 164408* | ||||||
| FAS6210 | Nov 2010 | 48 GB | 8 GB | 2,400 TB | | | |||
| FAS6240 | Nov 2010 | 4x 2.53 GHz Intel Xeon(tm) Processor E5540 | 96 GB | 8 GB | 2,880 TB | SFS2008 | 190675 | |
| FAS6280 | Nov 2010 | 4x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon(tm) Processor X5670 | 192 GB | 8 GB | 2,880 TB | | | ||
| Model | Status | Released | CPU | Main memory | NVRAM | Raw capacity | Benchmark | SPECsfs |
Note: EOA = End of Availability
SPECsfs with "*" is clustered result. SPECsfs performed include SPECsfs93, SPECsfs97, SPECsfs97_R1 and SPECsfs2008. Note that results of different benchmark versions are not comparable.
Check spec.org for more details.
External links
- Storage Filer (definitions)
- SnapLock Technical Report
- NetApp training videos
- NETWORK-APPLIANCE (Mib file)
See also
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- NetApp
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(WAFL), NetApp's filesystem format