NetApp SolidFire

NetApp® SolidFire® solutions provide a flexible and high-performance cloud infrastructure for data centers. They offer a simplified and cost-effective approach by consolidating various applications within a single, secure storage system. The software incorporates innovations that ensure unparalleled scalability, continuous data center operations, and high performance for each application.

Advantages of SolidFire:

• Consolidation: Reduces costs and complexity by securely consolidating critical applications onto a single storage platform.

• Automation: Enhances productivity and deepens integration within the infrastructure.

• Scalability: Dynamically scales storage resources to meet evolving business demands.

• Guaranteed Performance: Ensures consistent storage performance regardless of capacity utilization.

Operating System Features:

• Automated Management: Features automatic load distribution and balancing, a comprehensive API, and full integration with management systems.

• Horizontal Scaling: Scales seamlessly from tens of terabytes to several petabytes without downtime, supporting mixed-node clusters.

• Global Efficiency: Employs dynamic and post-process data compression, always-on deduplication, and global thin provisioning.

• Data Integrity: Utilizes Helix data protection without traditional RAID, real-time replication (both asynchronous and synchronous), and integrated backup and disaster recovery tools, including cloud integration.

SolidFire Node Specifications:

Each SolidFire node includes the Element OS software.

*Effective capacity accounts for Helix data protection, system overhead, and efficiency features such as compression, deduplication, and thin provisioning. Customers typically achieve effective capacities ranging from 5x to 10x the raw capacity, depending on application workloads.