Network Appliance FAS3100 Series

Technical Highlights

Maximum RAID Group Sizes

RAID-DP (high performance RAID 6)
FC: 28 (26 data disks plus 2 parity disks)
SATA: 16 (14 data disks plus 2 parity disks)

RAID 41
FC: 14 (13 data disks plus 1 parity disk)
SATA: 7 (6 data disks plus 1 parity disk)

SyncMirror (high resiliency RAID 1)
Options:
1. RAID-DP + RAID 1
2. RAID 4 + RAID 1

SAN Protocol Support

Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) for SCSI (4/2/1Gb); fabric-attached and direct-attached; IP SAN(iSCSI)

File Service Protocol Support

NFS V2/V3/V4 over UDP or TCP, PCNFSD V1/V2 for (PC) NFS client authentication, Microsoft CIFS

Other Protocol Support

HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1 virtual hosts

LUNs

Up to 2,048 server host LUNs

FlexVol Volumes

Up to 500 per controller
Volume/Aggregate Size2
16TB
Snapshot™ Copies
Up to 127,000

Number of Supported SAN Hosts

Up to 12 ports3 per controller configured as front-end (host) connectivity ports
Up to 12 directly connected servers4 (per controller and per active-active configuration)
Up to 256 SAN connected servers (per controller and per active-active configuration)

Supported Configurations

Highly Available Controller Configurations
Active-active controller with controller failover5, active-active controller with stretch (non switch) MetroCluster, active-active controller with fabric-attached MetroCluster
Highly Available Back-End (Disk) Configurations
Dual-path, multipath HA storage

Reliability

Redundant hot-swappable controllers, cooling fans, power supplies, optics, and RJ-45 ports

Management

Onboard serial console, diagnostic LED, full-duplex 10/100Base-T Ethernet remote LAN management port with RLM and onboard management interfaces, SNMP, telnet, SSH, HTTP, Web (SSL), host scripting, e-mail alerts

Security

Virus Protection
Authentication: Kerberos (MIT/Active Directory)
Authorization: LDAP, NIS
Auditing: File access logging
Encryption: IPSec, SSL, SSH, SMB signing
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Network Appliance FAS6000 Series

Operating System

NetApp Data ONTAP 7.2.4 software

Operating Systems Supported

Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS, VMware, ESX

Standard Software Features

Integrated automatic RAID manager, including RAID-DP, Snapshot, Fast Boot, telnet, e-mail alerts, NIS, DNS, SNMP, FilerView, FlexVol, FlexShare, SSH, Maintenance Center, Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)

File Service and Other Protocol Support

NFS V2/V3/V4 over UDP or TCP, PCNFSD V1/V2 for (PC) NFS client authentication, Microsoft CIFS, HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1 virtual hosts

SAN Protocol Support

Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) for SCSI (2Gb and 4Gb); fabric-attached and direct-attached; iSCSI

Licensed Software Products

FlexClone, FlexCache, MultiStore, SnapMirror, SnapRestore, SnapDrive, SnapManager for Microsoft Exchange, SnapManager for Microsoft SQL Server, SnapManager for Oracle, Single Mailbox Recovery, SnapVault, SnapMover, SnapLock Compliance, SnapLock Enterprise, SyncMirror, MetroCluster, NearStore Personality Option, CommandCentral Storage, Protection Manager2 , Virtual File Manager, File Storage Resource Manager, SAN Manager, Operations Manager3, ApplianceWatch for HP Openview, ApplianceWatch for Tivoli

Standard Hardware Features

ROHS-compliant, full-duplex 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet onboard console, diagnostic LED/LCD, Remote LAN Management (RLM) Card standard, redundant hot-plug cooling fans, redundant hot-plug power supplies, Compact Flash, 19" rack-mount enclosure, optional 220 V 42U 19" system cabinet

Maximum RAID Group Sizes

RAID 6 (RAID-DP) FC – 28 (26 data disks plus 2 parity disks), SATA – 16 (14 data disks plus 2 parity disks)
RAID 44 FC – 14 (13 data disks plus 1 parity disk), SATA – 7 (6 data disks plus 1 parity disk)
RAID 6 + RAID 1 or RAID 4 + RAID 1 (SyncMirror)

Disk Shelves Supported (Fibre Channel, SATA) and Configurations

DS14, DS14mk2 FC, DS14mk4 FC, DS14mk2AT
Dual-path

Disk Drive Capacities Supported

FC-91/181/361/721/144/300GB, SATA-250GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1TB