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FAS6240 / 6280

The high performance filer generation for enterprise storage solution

The unified storage architecture of the FAS6240 / 6280 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 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 FAS6240 / 6280 scales to 1440 drives, offering 2880 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. The FAS6240 offers up to 6 TB and the FAS6280 offers up to 8 TB Flash Cache.

Key featuresBenefits
  • DATA ONTAP
  • Single architecture and user interface simplify data management and reduce costs 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 
  • Manages multiple NetApp systems from a single administrative console
  • Faster deployment and consolidated management of multiple NetApp systems
  • 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