FAS Family QRG - Oct2019-Final PDF
FAS Family QRG - Oct2019-Final PDF
Value Proposition
NetApp® FAS arrays, powered by NetApp ONTAP® data management software, help you build storage infrastructure that is simple, smart, and trusted. FAS systems are optimized
for easy deployment and operations while also having the flexibility to handle future growth and cloud integration. With their highly available hardware and innovative software, they
cost-effectively deliver the data protection, security, and scalability to safeguard your data and make your staff more efficient.
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What You Will Sell Competitive Differentiators
Required Components • Simplify operations with leading data management: Deliver superior application integration and data protection;
• NetApp FAS hybrid-flash array leverage a standard set of simple management tools; scale capacity and performance with growing business
• NetApp ONTAP 9 software requirements; and save your staff time with one unified platform that can meet your NAS and SAN needs
• Build the foundation of a data fabric that integrates from the edge to core to cloud with leading cloud connectivity
Optional Components
• Get highly scalable capacity and performance: SAN, 12 nodes (88PB); NAS, 24 nodes (176PB)
• ONTAP 9 add-on software for additional data
• Deliver 100% nondisruptive operations, including full hardware refresh, on systems proven to deliver 99.9999%
protection, security, and hybrid cloud capabilities
availability
• Disk shelves with additional storage capacity
• With FAS9000, streamline maintenance and upgrades with an advanced modular architecture that is designed for
Where to Sell RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability)
• General-purpose business applications and file • Safeguard your data with leading security portfolio
services
• Deliver high performance with NVMe flash cache
• Backup and retention
• Increase flexibility and investment protection with the ability to combine different hardware generations and drive
• Massively scalable NAS containers, especially capacities into a cluster
for customers in EDA, high tech, oil and gas,
and media and entertainment Qualifying Questions
• Data center consolidation • Do you have general-purpose business applications that don’t need the ultra-low latency of a NetApp AFF all-flash
• As hybrid-flash storage capacity in a cluster with storage array?
AFF nodes that are running low-latency • Do you need more cost-effective capacity for back-up and retention?
enterprise applications
• Is your storage infrastructure simple and straightforward enough for your staff of IT generalists to manage?
Where to Go for More Information • Can you respond quickly to business changes on premises or in the cloud?
Use the NetApp Field Portal to access FAS • Do your all-flash solutions create silos that are separated from your hybrid-flash storage solutions?
family sales tools and more:
• How do you plan to incorporate cloud and flash into your environment?
• FAS family datasheet
• FAS family customer presentation Follow-Up Questions
• Additional Quick Reference Guides (QRGs) for • Which areas of your storage environment would you like to simplify?
related products (ONTAP, AFF, etc.) • Would it be helpful for your staff to have one storage environment for managing your SAN and NAS workloads?
• Technical reports • Is it complex and time consuming to manage and maintain your storage infrastructure?
• Technical FAQs
• Competitive information
• Also learn more from the FAS webpage on
NetApp.com
Contacts
• Your NetApp representative or channel manager
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