NetApp has upgraded its AFF A- and C-series flash storage arrays whereas additionally boosting capability and efficiency in StorageGrid object storage and E-series storage space networks (SANs), largely on account of new 60TB arrays plus central processing unit (CPU) and backplane enhancements.

AFF A- and C-series – efficiency and capacity-oriented respectively – get new-generation CPUs, reworked peripheral part interconnect categorical (PCIe) connectivity, and are actually absolutely modular to permit part upgrades in place whereas the chassis stays. With 60TB drives, capability is now boosted additionally.

Storage is through the Ontap working system and may be file, block or object. Whereas that’s the case, NetApp additionally has its ASA block storage array, which it upgraded in September. Devoted object storage capability is available in its StorageGrid line, of which extra under. AFF arrays include full cloud connectivity for backup, tiering and migration.

The arrays within the performance-oriented A-series are the A20, A30 and A50. NetApp claims they’re now 41%, 96% and 153% faster than their predecessor merchandise, A150, A250 and A400.

These new arrays substitute present ones on the decrease finish of the AFF vary. They complement the A70, A90 and A1k on the excessive finish that go to almost 4PB uncooked and greater than 15PB useable within the A1K, with practically 200PB doable in a cluster configuration.

Within the QLC flash-equipped C-series, the brand new arrays are the C30, C60 and C80. Most capability within the largest of those is almost doubled over its predecessor, the C800 – from 7.4PB to 14.7PB – whereas on the different finish, the brand new C30 goes to 2.2PB in contrast with the older C250, which went to 1.5PB.

Doable capacities within the C-series can go to only over 700PB in a cluster of C80 arrays.

Grant Caley, UK and Eire options director at NetApp, mentioned: “Because the creation of flash storage, the bottleneck of disk efficiency is not the issue for platform refreshes. Now it’s about controller efficiency to that storage. So, capacities aren’t altering considerably, however controller efficiency is.”

Additionally, NetApp’s StorageGrid object storage arrays – the offspring of E-series {hardware} and Bycast object storage software program – get an improve centred on 60TB arrays with greater than 2PB doable in 3U doable in its SGF6112 product. An improve to StorageGrid software program additionally permits for workloads in a cluster to be segregated into nodes for information solely and metadata, plus 5,000 buckets per tenant doable.

Whereas object storage is feasible in NetApp’s Ontap-equipped {hardware}, StorageGrid targets devoted object storage use instances.

“Dynamic coverage administration permits the client to resolve on safety, lifecycle, and so forth, in a a lot bigger platform than object in Ontap, which is geared toward transient storage of object information or the place it’s managed by an software, resembling backup,” mentioned Caley.