NetApp AFF A400 All-Flash Storage Array

The NetApp AFF A400 is a mid-range all-flash storage array built on NetApp's proven ONTAP data management software, designed to consolidate mixed NAS and SAN workloads onto a single, unified platform. The system delivers consistent low latency and high throughput suited to demanding enterprise environments, combining NVMe-based internal storage with end-to-end NVMe connectivity options including NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP. Its dual-controller, active-active architecture eliminates single points of failure and supports non-disruptive operations, making it well suited to workloads that cannot tolerate downtime.

Built around ONTAP's comprehensive feature set, the AFF A400 supports inline data reduction technologies including deduplication, compression, and compaction that operate without performance penalty, enabling organisations to maximise effective usable capacity. Storage efficiency is complemented by native multiprotocol support spanning FC, iSCSI, FCoE, NFS, SMB/CIFS, and NVMe over Fabrics, allowing the A400 to serve as a true consolidation platform across heterogeneous server and operating system environments. ONTAP's SnapMirror, SnapVault, and FlexClone capabilities provide integrated data protection, replication, and space-efficient cloning without the need for third-party tooling.

The AFF A400 targets enterprises requiring a scalable, high-performance storage foundation for database workloads, virtualised server environments, and business-critical applications. The platform integrates with VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and container orchestration frameworks through native plugins and APIs, while ONTAP Cloud Sync and FabricPool enable seamless tiering to object and cloud storage. Its modular 4U chassis design supports scale-out expansion through NetApp's cluster interconnect fabric, allowing capacity and performance to grow non-disruptively as requirements evolve.

Ideal for

• Enterprise database consolidation: Hosting Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and SAP HANA databases requiring consistent sub-millisecond latency and high IOPS density on a unified all-flash platform
• VMware and virtualisation infrastructure: Providing shared NFS datastores and iSCSI/FC LUNs for large vSphere environments with VAAI offload, VASA integration, and per-VM storage policy management via ONTAP tools
• Business-critical application storage: Underpinning ERP, CRM, and collaboration platforms that demand non-disruptive upgrades, transparent failover, and guaranteed performance SLAs
• Unified NAS and SAN consolidation: Replacing siloed FC SAN and NAS filers with a single multiprotocol platform supporting FC, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB simultaneously to reduce infrastructure sprawl
• DevOps and test/development acceleration: Leveraging FlexClone to provision space-efficient, instantaneous copies of production datasets for CI/CD pipelines and parallel development environments without impacting production performance
• Regulated-industry data protection: Meeting RPO and RTO requirements for financial services, healthcare, and government workloads using synchronous SnapMirror replication, immutable Snapshot copies, and MetroCluster stretched-cluster configurations

Technical specifications

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