What is it?
NetApp ASA C-Series is an all-flash SAN array that provides high-density, economical flash storage for critical enterprise applications in the data center. Workloads such as ERP, databases and VDI need high-performance, continuous availability and operational efficiency. Separating these workloads from unstructured data NAS workloads allow managers to follow policies and provides high-performance solutions in situations that require dedicated storage to isolate some or all SAN workloads.
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[1] Effective capacity based on 5:1 storage efficiency ratios with the maximum number of SSDs installed; space savings will vary dependent on workload and use cases.
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Why should you care?
Data center managers need a mission-critical enterprise storage environment for their data-intensive applications and workloads that use a SAN infrastructure. NetApp provides the all-flash ASA C-Series SAN array as a high-performance alternatives to traditional SAN storage.
How does this work?
NetApp ASA systems deliver industry-leading availability, superior performance and simplified data management across a hybrid cloud. They enable a customer's SAN infrastructure to accelerate business-critical applications and ensure they are always available — even in the most performance-demanding large-capacity deployments.
Built based on the NetApp AFF system running ONTAP, they provide an enterprise-class SAN solution. Features that NetApp's ASA systems share with NetApp AFF include:
- Industry-leading 6 nines availability
- Massive clusters that scale both up and out
- The best enterprise performance in the industry (based on audited SPC-1 results)
- Cost-effective, seamless data protection
Differentiation in the market
Key benefits of NetApp ASA C-Series:
- Predictable and economical high-performance solution
- Enables the consolidation of legacy spinning disk environment into a predictable solution
- Provides continuous data access to support critical workloads with an all-flash SAN solution
- Delivers market-leading performance with efficiency, encryption and data protection
- Supports both NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP, providing latency as low as 100 milliseconds with ASA A-Series systems and millions of IOPS in a cluster
- Provides synchronous replication to protect the entire system with NetApp MetroCluster Software
- Mirrors data synchronously to a different physical site to ensure business continuity
- Accelerates the performance of VMware infrastructure along with Oracle, SAP and Microsoft SQL server deployments in a dedicated SAN environment to improve customer experience and reduce time to results
- Helps organizations meet performance objectives by encrypting, replicating and storing data efficiently
- Provides effortless cloud connectivity with leading integration to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and others
How to position and sell NetApp's ASA C-Series
Customers who want to upgrade and modernize their data centers by replacing or augmenting their existing legacy-technology SAN infrastructure will benefit from the C-Series as it:
- Provides an all-flash SAN alternative to hybrid SAN arrays
- Achieves latency as low as 2-4 milliseconds with ASA A-Series systems and millions of IOPS in a cluster
- Continuous data access to support mission- and business-critical workloads
- Powered by the SAN-optimized NetApp ONTAP
- Includes ransomware detection, encryption and immutable snapshots
NetApp recommends ASA configurations when customers require:
- Mission-critical workloads such as databases that must have symmetric active-active paths from hosts to storage
- A dedicated system to isolate SAN workloads
- May need to scale SAN clusters out up to 12 nodes
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Arrow value-add
As your NetApp partner, Arrow will help you quote, position and sell NetApp ASA C-Series arrays. You can count on us to:
- Participate in discovery calls with customers to discuss their needs, uncover workload breakdown and any other information needed to design proposals tailored to fit their needs
- Provide right-sized quotes and create a competitive edge in every opportunity using NetApp's Storage Efficiencies
- Help you craft a value proposition for your quote that includes NetApp's Efficiency Guarantee
