| Software Features | |
| System management | SANtricity System Manager 11.50 |
| High-availability features | Dual active controller with automated I/O path failover
Automatic load balancing and path connectivity monitoring Dynamic Disk Pools technology and traditional RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 Redundant, hot-swappable storage controllers, disk drives, power supplies, and fans Automatic rebuild after a drive failure Mirrored data cache with battery-backed destage to flash Data Assurance (T10 PI ANSI standard to ensure data integrity) Proactive drive health monitoring that identifies problems before they create issues Online SANtricity OS upgrades and drive firmware upgrades Online configuration changes |
| Host operating systems | Apple macOS
CentOS Linux IBM AIX Microsoft Windows Server Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Oracle Enterprise Linux Oracle Solaris Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ubuntu Linux VMware ESX |
| Included software features | SANtricity synchronous and asynchronous mirroring
SANtricity volume copy SANtricity thin provisioning SANtricity Cloud Connector SANtricity Snapshot SANtricity SSD cache |
| Security features | Drive encryption (FDE/FIPS) supportHardware and software for at-rest data encryption are not available in certain countries, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and other Eurasian Customs Union countries.
Native encryption key management External encryption key management (KMIP-compliant) Role-based access control and audit log LDAP support SAML support to enable Multi-Factor Authentication Common Criteria certification in progress |
| System capabilities | Dynamic Disk Pools and Traditional RAID coexistence
Dynamic volume expansion Dynamic capacity expansion for DDP or RAID volume group Dynamic capacity contraction (DDP only) Dynamic RAID-level or segment size migration (traditional RAID only) Embedded system event monitoring Full Stripe Write Acceleration (FSWA) to accelerate system write performance (for qualifying workloads) |
| Open management | NetApp SANtricity Web Services embedded REST APIs
NetApp PowerShell Toolkit APIs NetApp SANtricity Secure CLI |
| Management enablers | NetApp SANtricity Performance App for Splunk EnterpriseAvailable from Splunk’s website
VMware vSphere Storage APIs—Array Integration (VAAI) Microsoft Windows Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) |
Santricity Software
Boost performance, maximize uptime
NetApp® SANtricity is designed to deliver industry-leading performance, reliability, and simplicity to E-Series hybrid-flash and EF-Series all-flash arrays.
Why NetApp SANtricity software?
Powerful software for proven storage systems
High IOPs, high throughput, and low latency. SANtricity® software lets you achieve maximum performance and utilization of your E-Series hybrid-flash and EF-Series all-flash arrays for heavy-workload applications, including data analytics, video surveillance, and backup and recovery.
With SANtricity, configuration-tweaking, maintenance, capacity-expansion and other tasks can be completed while the storage stays online. SANtricity also provides superior data protection, proactive monitoring, and certified security—all accessible via the easy-to-use, on-box System Manager interface.
Key benefits
For applications such as backup and recovery, technical computing, video surveillance, and big data analytics, SANtricity software offers industry-leading performance, uptime, and protection.
Performance. Your dedicated apps demand it
Performance-optimized SANtricity® software delivers data—with high IOPs, high throughput and low latency—to all your data analytics, video surveillance, and backup apps.
Uptime. Your business doesn’t miss a beat
Complete all your management tasks while the storage stays online. Tweak configurations, perform maintenance, or expand capacity without disrupting I/O.
Protection. You and your data can rest easy
SANtricity software delivers superior data protection, proactive monitoring, and certified security—all via the easy-to-use, on-box System Manager interface.
Primary use cases
From big data analytics, video surveillance, and high performance computing (HPC), to backup and recovery, SANtricity software is ready to help you get things done.
Big data analytics
Achieve consistent high performance, access your data more frequently and scale with compute and storage decoupled.
Video surveillance
Meet the challenges of increased surveillance-data throughput, retention, and retrieval.
HPC
Optimize performance for petabyte-scale, data-intensive applications.
Backup & recovery
Get cost-effective, reliable, fast storage for backing up heterogeneous environments.
Boost performance
Accelerate performance for high-IOPS, low-latency applications and high-bandwidth, high-throughput applications.
Maximize uptime
Realize best-in-class reliability with automated features, online configuration, state-of-the-art Dynamic Disk Pools technology, and more.
Gain flexibility
Simplify storage-management chores. Gain the flexibility you need for advanced tuning of all E-Series storage systems
Manage anytime, anywhere
Manage your NetApp E-Series system - anytime, anywhere. Our on-box, web-based interface streamlines your management workflow.
Keep your data safe and sound
Unprotected data is a disaster waiting to happen. And traditional data protection approaches aren’t keeping pace with IT complexity and growing threats. With NetApp, you can be confident that your data is secure on premises and in the cloud without sacrificing application performance. Plan backups and disaster recovery. Increase privacy and compliance. Prevent ransomware. Stay ahead of emerging threats. Smart, right?
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