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    • FAS8000 Series

    Fast-track your business operations with scalable hybrid-flash storage.
    Respond flexibly to changing business requirements. 

    • Accelerate SAN and NAS workloads with hybrid flash.
    • Scale to 24 nodes with zero downtime to upgrade and service.
    • Connect easily to the cloud.
      FAS8080 EX FAS8060 FAS8040 FAS8020
    SCALE-OUT
    NAS Scaling 1–24 nodes (12 HA pairs)
    Maximum drives 17,280 14,400 8,640 5,760
    Maximum capacity 172PB 144PB 86PB 57PB
    Maximum Flash Pool™ capacity 1728TB 864TB 576TB 288TB
    Maximum memory 3072GB 1536GB 768GB 576GB
    SAN Scaling 1–12 nodes (6 HA pairs)
    Maximum drives 8,640 7200 4,320 2880
    Maximum capacity 86PB 72PB 43PB 28PB
    Maximum Flash Pool capacity 864TB 432TB 288TB 144TB
    Maximum memory 1536GB 768GB 384GB 288GB
    Cluster interconnect 2, 4, or 6 10GbE 2 or 4 10GbE 2 or 4 10GbE 2 10GbE

     

      FAS8080 EX FAS8060 FAS8040 FAS8020
    PER HA PAIR SPECIFICATIONS (ACTIVE-ACTIVE DUAL CONTROLLER)
    Maximum capacity 14400TB 12000TB 7200TB 4800TB
    Maximum Flash Pool capacity 144TB 72TB 48TB 24TB
    Maximum drives 1,440 1,200 720 480
    Controller form factor Dual enclosure HA;  Dual-enclosure HA; 2 controllers and 2 IOXMs in two 6U chassis; total of 12U or  Single-enclosure HA; 2 controllers in single 6U chassis Single-enclosure HA; 
    2 controllers and 2 IOXMs in two 6U chassis; total of 12U Single-enclosure HA; 2 controllers in single 6U chassis 2 controllers in single 3U chassis
    Memory 256GB 128GB 64GB 48GB
    Maximum Flash Cache™ 24TB 8TB 4TB 3TB
    Maximum Flash Pool 144TB 72TB 48TB 24TB
    Combined flash total 144TB 72TB 48TB 24TB
    NVRAM 32GB 16GB 16GB 8GB
    PCIe expansion slots 24 8 or 24[1] 8 4
    Onboard I/O: UTA2  8 8 8 4
    (10GbE/FCoE, 16Gb FC)
    Onboard I/O: 10GbE 8 8 8 4
    Onboard I/O: GbE 8 8 8 4
    Onboard I/O: 6Gb SAS 8 8 8 4
    Storage networking supported FC; FCoE; iSCSI; NFS; pNFS; CIFS/SMB
    OS version ONTAP® 8.2.2 RC1 or higher ONTAP 8.2.1 RC2 or higher
    High-availability features Alternate Control Path (ACP); Ethernet-based service processor and ONTAP management interface; redundant hot-swappable controllers, cooling fans, power supplies, and optic
    Supported configurations  Hardware cluster configurations:
      Single-node cluster
      Two-node switchless or switched cluster
    ONTAP 9, 8.3  Clusters of HA pairs
      MetroCluster configurations for synchronous replication:
      2-node 
      4-node: two x 2-node switched or switchless clusters with fabric-attached (switched) storage; 4 nodes total: a 2-node active-active cluster at each site) 
      8-node (NAS-only): four x 2-node switched or switchless clusters with fabric-attached (switched) storage; 8 nodes total: a 4-node cluster at each site) 
      Consult the Interoperability Matrix Tool for FAS8000 support on earlier versions of ONTAP software.
    Disk shelves supported DS212C (2U; 12 drives, 3.5” LFF, 12Gb) 
    DS224C (2U; 24 drives, 2.5" SFF, 12Gb) 
    DS2246 (2U; 24 drives, 2.5" SFF, 6Gb) 
    DS4246 (4U; 24 drives, 3.5" LFF, 6Gb) 
    DS4486 (4U; 48 drives, 3.5" LFF, 6Gb) 
    DS4243[2] (4U; 24 drives, 3.5" LFF) supported for upgrades only with ONTAP 9 
    DS4246 (DS4243 with IOM6 added) – supported in ONTAP 9.1+ 
    DS14[2] disk shelves (mk2-AT, mk4) are supported for upgrades only, not supported in ONTAP 9+ 
    See NetApp Disk Shelves and Storage Media for more details on each disk shelf and supported drive types.
    Maximum RAID group sizes RAID-TEC™ (triple parity, ONTAP 9)
    SSDs and Performance HDDs: 29 (26 data disks plus 3 parity disks)
    Capacity HDDs: 21 (18 data disks plus 3 parity disks)
    RAID 6 (RAID-DP®)
    SSDs and Performance HDDs: 28 (26 data disks plus 2 parity disks)
    Capacity HDDs: 20 (18 data disks plus 2 parity disks)
    RAID 4
    SSDs and Performance HDDs: 14 (13 data disks plus 1 parity disk)
    Capacity HDDs: 7 (6 data disks plus 1 parity disk)
    RAID 6 + RAID 1 or RAID 4 + RAID 1 (SyncMirror®)
    Operating systems supported Windows® 2000, Windows Server® 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows XP, Linux®, Oracle® Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac® OS, VMware®, ESX®
    Max. number of LUNs FAS8020/FAS8040: 8,192 (ONTAP 9 and 8.3.x) 
    FAS8060/FAS8080: 12,288 (ONTAP 9 and 8.3.x) 
    7-mode, all FAS8000 systems: 2048 
    Number of supported SAN hosts FAS8020/FAS8040: 4,096 (ONTAP 9 and 8.3.x) 
    FAS8060/FAS8080: 8,192 (ONTAP 9 and 8.3.x) 
    7-mode, all FAS8000 systems: Up to 512 hosts per HA pair 
    FlexVol® volumes (In hardware clusters) Up to 1,000 per controller; (7-mode) up to 500 per controller
    Snapshot® copies Up to 255,000 per controller 
    Maximum volume size 100TB 100TB 100TB 70TB
    Maximum aggregate size 400TB 400TB 324TB 324TB
    Maximum Port Count (Includes Integrated Ports and PCIe Expansion Slots)
    FC target ports (16Gb autoranging) 64 64 24 12
    FC target ports (4Gb or 8Gb) 64 64 40 20
    FCoE target ports, UTA (max.) 32 32 24 12
    10GbE ports (max.) 64 64 32 16
    GbE ports (max.) 72 72 40 20
    6Gb/12Gb SAS ports (max.) 56 56 40 20
    FC initiator ports (max.) 72 72 40 20
    Maximum Adapters
    Dual 10GbE (optical or copper) 16 16 8 4
    Dual 10Gbase-T (RJ-45,CAT 6A-E) 16 16 8 4
    Quad GbE (copper) 16 16 8 4
    Dual 10GbE/FCoE 16Gb FC Unified Target Adapter 2 (UTA2, optical or copper for 10GbE/FCoE deployments, optical for 16Gb FC) 24 24 8 4
    8Gb FC target 16 16 8 4
    Flash Cache Performance Acceleration Module (2TB) 12 4 2 0
    Flash Cache Performance Acceleration Module (1TB) 24 8 4 2
    Flash Cache Performance Acceleration Module (512GB) 24 16 8 4
    Quad 6Gb SAS storage HBA 12 8 8 4
    Quad 12Gb SAS storage HBA 12 8 8 4
    Quad 4Gb FC storage/tape HBA (fiber) 16 8 8 4