Editing NetApp (section)

==Products==
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===Hardware Appliances===
{{Main|NetApp FAS}}
[[File:Wikimedia Foundation Servers-8055 01.jpg|thumb|right|NetApp FAS3240 (second from bottom) with three DS4243 shelves on top]]
[[File:NetApp AFF A800.jpg|thumb|right|NetApp AFF A800 with 48 NVMe SSD drives]]
NetApp's FAS (Fabric-Attached Storage), AFF (All-Flash FAS), and ASA (All SAN Array) storage systems are the company's flagship products. Such products are made up of storage controllers, and one or more enclosures of hard disks, known as shelves.

In the early 1990s, NetApp's storage systems initially offered [[Network File System (protocol)|NFS]] and [[Server Message Block|SMB]] protocols based on standard [[local area network]]s (LANs), whereas block storage consolidation required [[storage area network]]s (SANs) implemented with the [[Fibre Channel]] (FC) protocol.

In 2002, in an attempt to increase market share, NetApp added block-storage access as well, supporting the Fibre Channel and [[iSCSI]] protocols. {{As of | 2016}} NetApp systems support Fibre Channel, [[iSCSI]], [[Fibre Channel over Ethernet]] (FCoE) and the FC-NVMe protocol.

===ONTAP===
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Many of NetApp's products use the company's proprietary [[ONTAP]] data management operating system, under continuous development since 1992, which includes code from Berkeley Net/2 [[BSD Unix]], Spinnaker Networks technology and other operating systems.<ref name="Is Data ONTAP Based On UNIX">
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</ref> There are three [[ONTAP#Platforms|ONTAP platforms]]: FAS/AFF systems, software on commodity servers ([[ONTAP#ONTAP Select|ONTAP Select]]) as virtual machine or in the cloud ([[ONTAP#Cloud Volumes ONTAP|Cloud Volumes ONTAP]]). All ONTAP systems use [[Write Anywhere File Layout|WAFL]] file systems which provide basis for snapshots and other snapshot-based and data protection technologies. Key IP from ONTAP is also used in NetApp Astra,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.storagereview.com/news/netapp-astra-hits-ga-on-google-cloud|website=www.storagereview.com|access-date=2023-09-20|title=NetApp Astra Hits GA On Google Cloud}}</ref> a newer data management-as-a-service system built for [[Kubernetes]].

===Cloud Backup===
Previously known as Riverbed SteelStor before its acquisition by NetApp, this product was later renamed to AltaVault and then to Cloud Backup. Cloud Backup was initially available in three forms: as a hardware appliance, virtual appliance, and cloud appliance. Later, NetApp announced the end of sale for hardware and virtual appliances. Data placed on NAS share on Cloud Backup deduplicated, compressed, encrypted and transferred to object storage systems like [[Amazon S3]], [[Microsoft Azure|Azure]] Blob Storage or StorageGRID; thus Cloud Backup appears as a transparent gateway for archiving data to a private or public cloud.<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=NetApp|title=NetApp BlueXP - Data Estate Operations Made Simple|url=https://bluexp.netapp.com/|access-date=2024-01-05|language=en}}</ref>

===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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====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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}}{{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.

===StorageGRID===
[[File:NetApp SG6060 StorageGRID Webscale.jpg|thumb|NetApp SG6060 StorageGRID Webscale]]
StorageGRID is a software-defined storage system which provides access to data via object IP-based protocols like [[Amazon S3|S3]] and [[OpenStack Swift]]. It is available in the form of hardware or as software.

===E-Series===
[[File:NetApp E5700.jpg|thumb|E5700 with 60 disk drives enclosure]]
[[File:DDP vs RAID6.png|thumb|RAID comparison with DDP]]
[[File:DDP D-Stripe and D-Piece.png|thumb|DDP components and data reconstruction process]]
Previously known as LSI Engenio '''RDAC''' after NetApp acquisition the product renamed to NetApp E-Series. It is a general-purpose enterprise storage system with two controllers for SAN protocols such as [[Fibre Channel]], [[iSCSI]], [[Serial Attached SCSI|SAS]] and [[InfiniBand]] (includes SRP, iSER, and NVMe over Fabrics protocol). NetApp E-Series platform uses proprietary OS SANtricity and proprietary [[RAID]] called Dynamic Disk Pool (DDP) alongside traditional RAIDs like RAID 10, RAID 6, RAID 5, etc. In DDP pool each D-Stripe works similar to traditional [[RAID#RAID-F|RAID-4]] and [[RAID#RAID-F|RAID-6]] but on block level instead of entire disk level, therefore, have no dedicated parity drives. DDP compare to traditional RAID groups restores data from lost disk drive to multiple drives which provide a few times faster reconstruction time<ref>{{cite web
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 |title       = TR-4652 SANtricity OS 11.40.1 Dynamic Disk Pools – Feature Description and Best Practices
}}{{in lang|en}}</ref> while traditional RAIDs restores lost disk drive to a dedicated parity drive. Starting with SANtricity 11.50 E-Series systems EF570 and E5700 support [[NVMe]] over Ethernet ([[RDMA over Converged Ethernet|RoCEv2]]) with 100&nbsp;Gbit/s Ethernet ports and NVMe over InfiniBand. Starting with EF600 systems are end-to-end NVMe and capable of NVMe/FC in addition to NVMe/RoCE and NVMe/InfiniBand. Sync and async mirroring are supported with SANtricity 11.50. SANtricity Unified Manager is a web-based manager that supports up to 500 EF/E-Series arrays and supports LDAP, RBAC, CA and SSL for authorization and authentication. In August 2019 NetApp announced E600 with support for NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/FC protocols, up to 44&nbsp;GBps of bandwidth and full-function embedded REST API.

===Converged Infrastructure===
FlexPod, nFlex and ONTAP AI are commercial names for [[Converged Infrastructure]] (CI). Converged Infrastructures are joint products of a few vendors and consists from 3 main hardware components: computing servers, switches (in some cases switches are not necessary) and NetApp storage systems:
* FlexPod based on [[Cisco Unified Computing System|Cisco Servers]] and [[Cisco Nexus switches]] 
* nFlex based on [[Primergy|Fujitsu Servers]] with [[Extreme Networks]] switching
* ONTAP AI using [[NVIDIA#DGX|NVIDIA]] supercomputers with Mellanox or Cisco Nexus switches.
Converged Infrastructures typically include popular infrastructure software like [[Docker (software)|Docker Enterprise Edition (EE)]], Red Hat OpenStack Platform, [[VMware vSphere]], [[Microsoft Servers]] and [[Hyper-V]], [[Microsoft SQL Server|SQL]], [[Microsoft Exchange Server|Exchange]], [[Oracle VM]] and [[Oracle Database|Oracle DB]], [[Xen|Citrix Xen]], [[Kernel-based Virtual Machine|KVM]], [[OpenStack]], [[SAP HANA]] etc. and might include self-service portals [[PaaS]] or [[IaaS]] like [[Cisco Unified Computing System#Management|Cisco UCS Director]] (UCSD) or others.

====FlexPod====
[[File:FlexPod Converged Infrastracture.jpg|thumb|FlexPod Converged Infrastracture]]
The FlexPod platform is designed to integrate cloud services and manage data in a Converged Infrastructure. Offerings include FlexPod XCS, FlexPod Express, FlexPod Datacenter, and FlexPod AI.

NetApp ''Converged Systems Advisor'' (CSA) is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that consists of an on-premises agent and a cloud-based portal.

Multi-Pod is a FlexPod solution with a FAS or AFF system leveraging [[ONTAP#MetroCluster|MetroCluster]] technology for stretching storage system between two sites.

====ONTAP AI====
[[File:NetApp ONTAP AI.jpg|thumb|NetApp ONTAP AI]]
Converged infrastructure solution based on Cisco Nexus 3000 or Mellanox Spectrum switches with 100&nbsp;Gbit/s ports, NetApp AFF storage systems, [[Nvidia#DGX|Nvidia DGX supercomputer servers]]. DGX servers interconnected with each other over [[RDMA over Converged Ethernet|RDMA over RoCE]], and developed for [[Deep Learning]] based on Docker containers with NetApp Docker Plugin Trident. DGX servers connected to the storage with Ethernet connection and consume space over NFS protocol.

===OnCommand Insight===
OnCommand Insight (OCI) is software for data center management, capacity management, and infrastructure analytics.

===Memory Accelerated Data===
NetApp MAX Data for short, MAX Data is a proprietary [[Linux]] [[file system]] with auto-tiering from PMEM to SSD and data protection features.

MAX Data consists of two tiers: Tier 1 and Tier 2, where cold data destaged to Tier 2 from Tier 1 or promoted from Tier 2 to Tier 1 when accessed, by MAX Data tiering algorithm, transparently to the applications.