Key Benefits Proven, affordable performance • Increase search performance by up to an average of 118% compared to commodity servers with internal disks • Speed data analysis from weeks to hours and generate reports 3x faster • Leverage a hybrid architecture to optimize performance and capacity buckets for Splunk’s hot, warm, and cold data tiers Security and reliability with best-of-breed solution • Get greater than 99.999% hardware availability backed by experience from more than 1 million deployments • Enable media erasure and full disk encryption • Improve reliability with a groundbreaking solution that leverages enterprise storage building blocks Simplified deployment and access to data • Scale compute and storage independently to better match application workloads • Simplify deployment and accelerate time to value from months to weeks with a pretested NetApp Verified Architecture • Easily install and administer your storage systems by using on-box, web-based, and powerful NetApp® The NetApp Converged Infrastructure Solution for Splunk brings together the latest storage, networking, and server technologies in a pretested, prevalidated reference architecture to help you simplify deployment of Splunk environments. Accelerate your time to insight so you can drive rapid innovation and discover new ways to engage with your customers. Composed of Cisco UCS C-Series servers, Cisco Nexus switches, and NetApp E2800 hybrid storage systems, this groundbreaking infrastructure delivers superior performance for faster decision making and improved business agility. NetApp E-Series storage systems provide better performance, data availability, scalability, and data protection for Splunk workloads compared to commodity servers with internal drives. Together, the solution’s prevalidated architecture and modular scalability make it easy to deploy and scale as you grow. Proven, Affordable Performance Powered by the speed of NetApp E2800 hybrid flash storage systems, the NetApp Converged Infrastructure Solution for Splunk increases performance compared to commodity servers with internal storage, enabling you to search and analyze Splunk data in less than half the time. Recent testing that closely simulated real-world Splunk search performance showed conclusively that operations have much to gain from the NetApp storage approach. Searching was significantly faster with NetApp versus commodity servers with internal storage, on average up to 118% faster. Very dense searching was up to 35% faster, and rare search performance was up to 200% faster. NetApp installations have seen even faster search run times. 

Figure 1) E-Series product line. E-Series is designed to make SANs simple, with dynamic disk pools to eliminate RAID management; robust I/O queuing algorithms optimized for SSDs; proven high availability; and out-of-the-box features including mirroring, replication, point-in-time recovery, and thin provisioning. I get a lot of questions about how E-Series fits in the NetApp portfolio, so I thought I'd start by answering those questions before digging into the specifics of products and use cases. Where E-Series Fits If you're not familiar with the E-Series design and speeds and feeds, Tech OnTap published an introductory article in March 2013, which is a good place to start. Two major criteria differentiate E-Series from FAS: Dedicated storage. FAS is designed as shared storage; lots of different workloads share the same storage system. E-Series is a better fit for applications that need dedicated storage such as SAN-based business apps, dedicated backup targets, and high-density storage repositories. Data management. FAS integrates a wide range of data management, data protection, and storage efficiency features as part of the storage system. However, if you have an application that manages its own data, those capabilities might just sit idle, and E-Series is a great alternative. Where FAS delivers incredible storage efficiency, E-Series is designed to deliver performance efficiency with excellent price/performance from entry to enterprise, maximum disk I/O for minimum cost, and sustained high bandwidth and IOPS. Here are a few additional things that you may want to know about E-Series storage. Many of these are based on misconceptions that come up frequently: Does not run Data ONTAP®. E-Series systems run a separate operating environment called SANtricity® that is unrelated to Data ONTAP. Block only. E-Series is simple, streamlined SAN storage designed to deliver superior price/performance. E-Series does not directly support any NAS protocols. Direct host connections. All E-Series models can support direct high-speed SAS connections to hosts. You can share a single storage system among a small number of servers without the complexity of a network or SAN. SSD capable. All E-Series models can support both SSD and HDD. You can use SSDs as persistent storage or as part of an SSD cache. Highly available. All E-Series configurations can be configured with dual controllers for high availability. In fact, E-Series delivers 99.999% availability, just like FAS. NetApp AutoSupport™ is available for the E-Series platform. Not just for HPC. E-Series cut its teeth in scientific and technical environments and remains a great fit for those applications. However, it's also becoming popular for a wide range of business and general use cases. Plays well with FAS. Increasingly, we're seeing use cases that combine the strengths of FAS and E-Series storage. Check out the other articles in this issue on the EF550 and Oracle OpenWorld highlights for examples.

The FAS3200 series is designed for faster performance and more bandwidth with proven NetApp availability. Combining reliable, high-performance hardware with the world’s most popular storage architecture — the NetApp® Data ONTAP® operating system — NetApp FAS3200 series lets you seamlessly scale your storage infrastructure to support demanding business applications and requirements, no matter how quickly your organization changes. The FAS3200 series is a midrange platform tailored to deliver the performance, expandability, and capacity scaling critical to the needs of your organization. Fully Flash-ready systems support internal Flash, solid- state disks (SSDs), and advanced server cache, so you can achieve optimum performance while minimizing your total investment in Flash. This significantly reduces the total storage capacity you need. The ability to scale FAS3200 performance and capacity without disrupting operations brings a new level of agility to midrange storage. As capacity requirements grow, NetApp clustering technology allows seamless scaling of devices, storage volumes, and even entire storage systems residing within a cluster. Flash performance Designed to deliver more performance than ever before, new FAS3200 models provide up to 80% more I/O per second, enabling you to drive your organization faster. As needs change you can boost performance further using the broad range of Flash products in the NetApp Virtual Storage Tier. This innovative approach combines the inherent latency and throughput benefits of Flash with intelligent caching capabilities, delivering the performance benefits of Flash while keeping total costs low. Highly efficient systems At NetApp, storage efficiency is part of the DNA. NetApp seeks out every way possible to reduce your cost per effective gigabyte of storage. What’s more, the NetApp OnCommand® management suite automates the process. Efficiency technologies can be invoked with the click of a button or—in the case of NetApp Workflow Automation—can be encapsulated in your data management policies. This further reduces administrator time and helps you achieve optimum storage efficiency throughout your data infrastructure. Reliability and availability The FAS3200 series is built on the proven enterprise-class availability of the NetApp storage infrastructure. The FAS3200 models leverage from high-end systems by introducing features such as
Alternate Control Path (ACP) and service processor. These enhance our already highly available architecture by enabling additional diagnostics and non disruptive recovery. HA and cluster configurations support nondisruptive maintenance, upgrade, and other operations to eliminate planned downtime and provide even greater availability to meet your needs. You can further boost data availability and meet stringent servicelevel objectives by combining the FAS3200 series with the NetApp Integrated Data Protection portfolio. High-speed, space-efficient Snapshot copies let you capture a copy of a data volume in seconds, while advanced synchronous and asynchronous replication for business continuity can protect you against both planned and unplanned outages. Deduplication and compression are leveraged across both primary and secondary storage, reducing capacity consumption and network usage. Maximum platform flexibility For midrange storage, the key to success is platform flexibility.
FAS3200 models scale from a few terabytes to over 2PB of storage capacity to adapt readily to your growing storage demands. For maximum performance density and to decrease consumption of space, power, and cooling, the FAS3200 series is available with the DS2246 disk shelf. This disk shelf utilizes the latest high-performance hard-disk technology, with small-form-factor 2.5” disk drives that double the capacity per rack unit, conserving valuable data center resources. With midrange storage, available expansion slots can be a limiting factor.
The expanded I/O configurations of the FAS3250 model significantly add to the number of PCIe expansion slots available for network cards, Flash cards, and storage connectivity. Should you reach the limits of a FAS3200 system, all models support clustering, providing you with the flexibility to build clustered systems from 2 nodes to 24 nodes—all managed from a single console.

Get started in AI faster Eliminate guesswork with a validated reference architecture that detangles design complexity. With NetApp ONTAP AI proven architecture, you’ll also reduce overall costs while accelerating AI innovation and productivity.
NVIDIA + NetApp ONTAP AI : Built on a verified architecture that combines NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputers, NetApp AFF storage, and Cisco networking supercharges your AI/DL environments. Industry-leading NVIDIA DGX-1 AI supercomputers. At the heart of ONTAP AI is the NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputer, a fully-integrated hardware and software turnkey system that is purpose-built for DL. The DGX platform leverages the NVIDIA GPU Cloud Deep Learning Software Stack, which is optimized for maximum GPU accelerated DL performance.
The world’s fastest cloud-connected flash: NetApp AFF systems NetApp AFF systems keep data flowing to DL processes with the industry’s fastest and most flexible all flash storage, featuring the world’s first end-to-end NVMe technologies. The A800 is capable of feeding data to NVIDIA DGX-1 systems up to 4 times faster than competing solutions

NetApp’s Storage-as-a-Service is available as four service offerings with flexible and scalable capacity growth to suit most requirements:

• High Performance: NetApp’s all-flash arrays underpin this service. Ideal for database, analytics and virtualised , performance intensive and/or latency-sensitive high write applications.
• Performance: Also delivered on NetApp’s all-flash arrays, this service is ideal for any applications that need the performance of all-flash technology, but don’t demand ultra-low latency response times
• Value: Powered by NetApp’s enterprise storage arrays, this service is for high capacity applications such as email, web content, files shares, backup and replication.
• Archive: Comprised of NetApp’s S3-compliant object storage, ideal for long term backup and archiving such as medical records and imagery.

Government agencies have the flexibility to move from one storage tier to another, as well as increase or decrease their data consumption without incurring additional fees as part of their Storage-as-a-Service subscription. This ensures a predictable cost model that will enable them to manage their data requirements to help accommodate short-term projects, through to entire platform upgrades, or longer term data storage at any time.

Object storage built for a hybrid, multi-cloud experience

StorageGRID provides greater data management intelligence on a simplified platform for your object data. Because StorageGRID leverages S3, it painlessly bridges hybrid cloud workflows and enables your data to be fluid to meet your business demands. Gain the flexibility to deploy on purpose-built appliances, in containers, or where you see fit.

Tier to More Clouds with StorageGRID

With Microsoft Azure Archive Blob Storage as a public cloud target, you have even more options for your hybrid cloud infrastructure. Choose where your data lives by defining your own data policies with StorageGRID, whether that is on-premises or in the public cloud for cost savings, locality, and more.

Solutions that Protect your Data at Scale

Integrations with top data protection partners enable you to secure and simplify your backups, snapshots, tiered data, and more.

Commvault

With Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery, easily protect your data, virtual machines and applications.

Rubrik

Protect and simplify all aspects of data management with policy-based automation.

Veeam

Protect and manage your backup data with StorageGRID as your Veeam Cloud Tier.

 

Models & Specifications

• SGF6024
• SG6060
• SG5760
• SG5712
• SG1000