• Optimize your NetApp systems with the predictive analytics

and proactive support of NetApp Active IQ®. Fueled by

NetApp’s massive user base, Active IQ artificial intelligence

and machine learning create actionable insights that help you

prevent problems, optimize your configuration, save time, and

make smarter decisions.

• Protect your critical data more efficiently with integrated

data protection by using NetApp technologies such as RAID-

TEC® (triple-parity) and Snapshot™.

OnCommand® System Manager is a simple but powerful browser-

based management tool to simplify ongoing management and

administration. Now running natively in ONTAP, it can be accessed

using a browser to initialize the cluster and create storage virtual

machines (SVMs) for data access. Later, OnCommand System

Manager can manage the entire cluster from within ONTAP,

eliminating the need for an external management server.

In addition to the standard set of powerful software that comes

in the Base Bundle with every FAS2700 system, the optional

Premium Bundle and extended value software products offer

advanced capabilities such as instant data recovery, instant

cloning, synchronous data replication, application-aware backup

and recovery, NetApp Volume Encryption, and data retention.

Delivers the most value for your IT investment

FAS2700 hybrid storage arrays are built to deliver robust

capabilities, so your investment supports the broadest possible

set of IT needs. Each FAS2700 delivers:

• Increased price performance value. Flash Cache™ intelligent

data caching, based on NVMe technology, is integrated into all

FAS2700 models to accelerate workloads, reduce latency, and

deliver 30% higher performance compared to the previous

FAS2600 generation.

• Best-in-class storage efficiency. Enhanced inline compression

delivers efficiency and storage savings without compromising

performance. Along with inline deduplication, inline compaction,

thin provisioning, and other data reduction technologies, these

features deliver leading storage efficiency.

• Advanced IT integration options. The enhanced onboard con-

nectivity of the FAS2700 supports a broader set of applications

with your choice of eight flexible, unified target adapters

(UTA2s) or eight 10GBase-T ports, as well as four 10GbE ports.

• Expanded enterprise-class data management. Leverage

NDO, adaptive QoS, and superior virtualization integration,

which are usually offered only in the highest-end systems,

to meet complicated IT needs.

• Security. Easily, efficiently protect your at-rest data by

encrypting any volume on FAS (and AFF) systems with

NetApp Volume Encryption. No special encrypting disks

required. Plus, multifactor authentication increases security,

and cryptographic shredding enables GDPR compliance.

• Scalable NAS containers. With NetApp FlexGroup, support

very large NAS environments in a single namespace that can

scale up to 20PB and 400 billion files with consistent high

performance and resiliency.

Built to meet your changing needs

As your business grows and priorities change, it is important to

have a storage solution that responds to your changing IT require-

ments dynamically and cost effectively. The NetApp FAS2700

series provides multiple ways to support your growing needs:

• Start small and grow big by nondisruptively adding more nodes

as needed, without incurring large capital expenses up front.

• Support and consolidate new NAS and SAN workloads with a

unified architecture.

• Scale out up to 24 nodes to support your increasing storage

requirements.

• Upgrade to higher-end NetApp systems while using the same

data management software and tools, which reduces adminis-

trative overhead by up to 60% by eliminating retraining.

• Get built-in investment protection with the ability to convert

your FAS2750 and FAS2720 systems to an external disk shelf

when you upgrade to larger NetApp systems.

Figure 1) You don’t need to be an expert to configure your storage with the simple, easy-to-use

NetApp OnCommand System Manager console.