NetApp’s AFF C190 is the youngest storage system model from the All Flash FAS line. And although the C190 is relatively inexpensive, it has rich functionality and is considered the optimal solution for small and medium-sized corporations, where it is necessary to ensure stable operation of virtual machines along with high fault tolerance.
The basis of the AFF C190 data storage system is the AFF A220 performance platform, which runs on the standard proprietary ONTAP operating system (OS). The AFF C190 storage has support for all the same functional solutions as the rest of the devices in the FAS series.
As standard, the system comes with 24 SSD drives, each with a capacity of 960 GB.
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Features
NetApp AFF C190 is recommended for small businesses that need to solve the following tasks:
- virtualization of the server infrastructure;
- provision and support of virtual desktops;
- working with small SQL Server, SYBASE, Oracle, SAP and DB2 databases.
Main Features
The C190 model supports working with the same software (software) as the rest of the storage systems in this line:
- SnapManager;
- SyncMirror;
- Snapshot;
- SnapMirror;
- Exchange;
- Hyper-V;
- SharePoint;
- SnapLock;
- MultiStore, etc.
With this software, you can solve regular tasks within the corporation for local and remote replication, creating snapshots of file systems, virtualization of storage, creating data backups, ensuring information protection, etc.
NetApp AFF C190 can be supplied (for an additional fee) with a powerful administrative platform for corporate data management, which has the support of other manufacturers of data storage systems — OnCommand Insight.
Available ports in the C190 solution:
- 12 GBps mini-SAS type (2 pcs.);
- 10 GBE Cluster Networking (2 pcs.);
- Micro-B USB port (console access) (1 pc.);
- USB type A port (1 pc.);
- Serial port type RJ45 (Console) (1 pc.).
The AFF C190 storage model from NetApp is an All Flash system of the FAS line, belonging to the primary class. It has limitations in terms of expanding the volume of disk drives (only 24 pieces per device), but it copes perfectly with high-performance software that requires a small disk system.