Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product FAS2240-4 NetApp
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W h i t e P a p e r F AS Hardwar e: Optimized for I /O, Expandability , and Reliability Steven Miller, Philip T rautman, NetApp September 2014 | WP - 7193 Executive Summary NetApp designs all t he mod.
2 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . T A BLE OF CONT ENTS 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 3 1.
3 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . 1 Introduction Because modern ser vers have becom e so capable, it’s not u ncomm on for even very industry -savv y people to conclude that a server platform can perform the same f unctions — at the s ame level of performance — as a dedicated storage s ystem.
4 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . 2.1 Maximizing Reliability and Av ailability Compute and networ k gear are essent ially stateless; this equipm ent is relatively easy to shut down, replace, and bring back up .
5 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . hundreds of ph y sical or virtual servers, a storage system needs to be architected to have both sufficient mem ory and mem ory bandwidth to accomm odate the volume of requests.
6 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . Table 1) Comparison of published FAS versus Isilon SPECsfs benchmark results.
7 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . NetApp provides a complete select ion of built-in p orts, including Ethernet (G igabit Ethernet and 10 - Gigabit Ethernet), F ibre Channel, and S AS. This provides a b ase conf iguration that is a lready highly capable in terms of connectivity.
8 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . your data center infr astructure. W hatever network connectivity you need can b e supported from the same device without hard ware changes. If you need more of one net work technology and less of another, FAS storage can adapt to your needs.
9 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . 5 Reliability , Availability , and Service ability Delivering the best pos sible user experience with th e highest level of r eliability and availabilit y isn’t about any single thing.
10 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . Media Reliability At NetA pp, we have perfected o ur hardware designs and hardened Data ONT AP over the last 2 0 years to provide a high level of resilience to all m odes of driv e failure — both alone and in com binations.
11 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . 5.3 What It Means to You As a result of all the m easures that NetApp tak es to protect reliabilit y and availability, you ca n expect NetApp storage to d eliver an except ionally high level of resilience and uptime.
12 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . indirect block. Data ONT AP m erely has to log th e 8KB of data alo ng with about 120 b ytes of header inform ation, so it uses half or a third as m uch space for the sam e operation.
13 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . Refer to the Interop erability Matrix Tool (IMT) on the Ne tApp Suppo rt site to valida te that the exact product and featur e versions de scribed in this documen t are support ed for your spe cific environ ment.
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