Editing NetApp (section)

===NetApp HCI===
[[File:NetApp HCI.png|thumb|NetApp HCI: two 2U HCI Chassis with four half-width blade servers at the bottom and one 1U storage node at the top]]
NetApp [[Hyper-converged infrastructure]] (HCI) or sometimes referred by NetApp as Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, NetApp HCI is based on commodity blade and rack servers, NetApp Element software and [[VMware vSphere]]. NetApp HCI includes the NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) for configuring vCenter, [[IP address]]es, login and password, and storage nodes.<ref>{{cite web
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 |author=John Rollason
 |access-date  = January 13, 2018
 |date        = June 5, 2017
 |archive-date = January 23, 2018
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180123192556/https://blog.netapp.com/blogs/introducing-netapp-enterprise-scale-hci-the-next-generation-of-hyper-converged-infrastructure/
 |url         = https://blog.netapp.com/blogs/introducing-netapp-enterprise-scale-hci-the-next-generation-of-hyper-converged-infrastructure/
 |title       = Introducing NetApp Enterprise-Scale HCI: The Next Generation of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
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====2U HCI Chassis with four half-width blade servers====
[[File:NetApp HCI.jpg|thumb|NetApp HCI, two 2U HCI Chassis]]
Each storage node drive set consists of six SSD drives directly connected to a dedicated storage node and installed in front of the blade chassis. Each storage and compute blade nodes have [[25 Gigabit Ethernet]] ports which could be used as 10&nbsp;Gbit/s ports as well as dedicated 1&nbsp;Gb ports for management purposes. Network switches were not included, and in NetApp HCI with Element software release 11 NetApp announced H-Series Switch as part of HCI, so all hardware components must be bought from NetApp. [[ONTAP#ONTAP Select|ONTAP Select]] available as [[Software-defined storage|SDS]] on NetApp HCI for customers interested in NAS protocols. The self-service portal allows automating common provisioning and management tasks.

====SolidFire====
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SolidFire storage system uses an OS called NetApp Element Software (formally SolidFire Element OS) based on [[Linux]] and designed for SSDs and scale-out architecture with the ability to expand up to 100 nodes and provide access to data through SAN protocols [[iSCSI]] natively and [[Fiber Channel]] with two gateway nodes. Element OS provides a REST-based API for storage automation, configuration, management, and consumption. Element SW version 11 will not support FC. SolidFire uses iSCSI login redirection to distribute reads and writes across the cluster using helix algorithm.<ref>{{cite web
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 |publisher   = NetApp
 |author=Andy Banta
 |access-date  = December 12, 2017
 |date        = May 19, 2016
 |archive-date= November 18, 2017
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171118200344/https://blog.netapp.com/blogs/why-solidfire-uses-iscsi-storage-protocol/
 |url         = https://blog.netapp.com/blogs/why-solidfire-uses-iscsi-storage-protocol/
 |title       = Why SolidFire Uses iSCSI Storage Protocol
}}{{in lang|en}}</ref> Each node has pre-installed SSD drives, which must all be of the same type and capacity. Each SolidFire cluster can have a mix of different node models and generations.