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What is ASA?

What is @NetApp ASA? It is #ONTAP based All-flash #SAN Array. Changes in network access: symmetric Active/Active (unlike ALUA) but no architectural changes in ONTAP.

ASA stands for All-flash SAN Array. ASA based on midrange & high-end AFF systems that are using ONTAP.

ONTAP architecture in ASA systems remains the same, with no changes. The only change is in the access to the storage over SAN protocols.

It Unified ONTAP systems SAN protocols like FC and iSCSI are using ALUA which stands for Asymmetrical logical Unit Access so, this type of connection called…

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New NetApp platform & Licensing improvements in ONTAP 9.6 (Part 1)

New #NetApp All-Flash platform: A320 with 100 microseconds, e2e #NVMe & directly attached #RoCE Disk Shelves (NS). In #ONTAP 9.6 NVMe is free (Again), SM-S now part of Premium Bundle, Entry MCC-IP #netappunited

A320

All flash A320 2U platform introduced, here are a few important details for this new AFF system:

From the performance perspective of view most notable is ~100 microseconds latencyon SQL SLOB workload. If true, that is a notable improvement because previously we’ve seen only sub 1 millisecond (1,000 microseconds) latency and new latency basically a few times (in the best-case scenario…

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