FAS3270

The high performance filer generation for midrange and high end storage solution

The unified storage architecture of the FAS3270 eliminates the need to deploy multiple systems to address requirements for block and file storage. The cost of hard disk drives can be cut in half by using SATA drives instead of Fibre Channel drives. Storage management is greatly simplified by the Data ONTAP operating system, which drives down the cost of administering storage.

FlexShare, a new standard feature of the Data ONTAP operating system, ensures that critical workloads get priority service and consistent performance when the storage controller is operating at maximum load. When workload priorities change, FlexShare settings can be updated and in effect immediately. The FAS3270 scales to 960 drives, offering 1920 terabytes of capacity per system. The model have extensive onboard Fibre Channel (FC) and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, which can be augmented using embedded PCI Express (PCIe) and PCI-X expansion slots, and integrated remote LAN management.

Key features	Benefits
DATA ONTAP	Single architecture and user interface simplify data management and reduce cost for SAN and NAS deployment.
FlexShare™	Prioritizes storage resource allocation to highest value workloads on a heavily loaded system Assures best performance is provided to designated high- priority applications
DataFabric® Operations Manager	Investment protection Flexible architectures are possible Ideal for building cost optimized storage networks
Snapshot	Makes incremental, data-in-place, point-in-time copies of a LUN or volume with minimal performance impact Enables frequent, nondisruptive, space-efficient and quickly restorable backups