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NetApp ASA

Modernize with simple, powerful, scale-out all-flash block storage that delivers advanced data management features at a price that fits any budget.

Experience block storage without blockers

Meet the new members of the all-flash, block-optimized NetApp® ASA A-Series family. Incredibly affordable, A-Series delivers the simplicity and power you need for your mission-critical workloads – while eliminating the trade-off between operational simplicity and high-end storage capabilities.

Simple, powerful, affordable all-flash storage

60 secs

to provision storage

99 .9999%

data availability, guaranteed[1]

50 %

price advantage over the competition[2]
1 click

to protect workloads

12 M IOPs

with scale-out cluster

25 %

lower VMware costs
So simple, anyone can manage it

Get up and running in minutes, provision in seconds, and protect workloads in one click. Rely on full-stack AIOps for insights, observability, and optimization—and manage operations from vCenter. It’s simplicity at scale.
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Accelerate with powerful storage

Speed VMware and database apps with consistent, market-leading performance, proven reliability, and intelligent data management. Start small and scale to PBs of capacity with an active-active, scale-out, all-NVMe architecture.
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Affordable like nothing else

Seize your modernization opportunity: NetApp ASA systems deliver a price advantage of 25–50% and better ROI over time. Meet your budget constraints while also slashing operational overhead and reducing VMware costs by up to 25%.
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Power and consolidate all your block workloads with the storage solution of your choice.
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ASA A-Series: Modern block storage without tradeoffs.

Designed to deliver abundant performance and efficiency, from millions of IOPs to consistent sub-millisecond latency, and leading raw-to-effective storage capacity, ASA A-Series is ideal for mission-critical apps.
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ASA C-Series: Storage modernization within reach of every budget.
Massively scalable, optimized for capacity-intensive block workloads, the ASA C-Series delivers unmatched value for general-purpose apps and is ideal for modernizing from hybrid flash to all-flash, at the cost of disk.
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Enjoy ONTAP’s simplicity at scale

If you love using ONTAP® for file and object workloads, adding ASA provides you with that same ONTAP experience for block workloads. You’ll simultaneously lower VMware costs and get unmatched hypervisor flexibility for the future. Plus, if you’re looking to modernize existing hybrid or disk-based systems, ASA helps you affordably modernize to all-flash.

Leverage the power of ONTAP One for SAN

Take advantage of NetApp ONTAP® One, our comprehensive software suite that includes active-active business continuity, comprehensive replication, app-integrated data protection, ransomware protection, disaster recovery-as-a-service, and much more.

Rely on industry-leading 4:1 storage efficiency, guaranteed

ASA systems deliver better raw-to-effective capacity for any workload. Gain more storage and more value—backed by our Storage Efficiency Guarantee.[2]

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Ensure operations with our Ransomware Recovery Guarantee

Trust NetApp to protect your data from ransomware attacks. If we can’t help you recover your data in the event of a ransomware attack, we will make it right.[2]

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We guarantee 99.9999% uptime

Deploy your mission-critical applications with confidence and peace of mind. ASA’s amazing resiliency, powered by a high availability active-active architecture, is guaranteed.[2]

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Simplify your storage journey

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Leverage built-in disaster recovery and business continuity

Simplify your disaster recovery and get market-leading business continuity cost-effectively—with symmetric active-active NetApp SnapMirror® active sync.
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Storage Lifecycle Program

Future-proof your storage investment with free, non-disruptive controller upgrades, and options to shift to the cloud as your business needs evolve.
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Turbocharge
Turbocharge your SAN

Accelerate your SAN performance, secure your data, and optimize your application management with NetApp’s no-cost SAN acceleration workshop.
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Storage as a service

NetApp’s best-in-class storage for block, file, and object means you can flexibly scale without incurring new hardware or configuration costs—all with a single subscription.
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“The NetApp ASA was perfect for our customer’s block VMware workloads. The 4:1 Storage Efficiency Guarantee delivered unbeatable space and power savings to help them achieve their sustainability and cost-saving goals.”

Rocco Scaturchio, Director, Sales and Marketing, Amidata

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“NetApp’s all-flash SAN storage made a big difference in our critical infrastructure, including VMware and S/4HANA.”

Tristan Roberts, Digital Infrastructure Leader, TasNetworks

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“NetApp enables us to provide that reliability everywhere, including our SAN environment, which is home to our most demanding workloads. With the addition of Keystone, we are now also bringing cloud agility to our private data centers so we can scale according to the needs of our business.”

Gary Abbott, Vice President of Cloud Operations, FICO

GigaOm declares NetApp storage a leader

“NetApp offers a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade capabilities that maintain consistency regardless of deployment model.” – GigaOm

ASA tech specs

ASA A-Series and C-Series models provide a full range of performance and capacity to meet your needs.
  ASA A1K product ASA A90 product ASA A70 product ASA A50 product ASA A30 product ASA A20 product
  ASA A1K ASA A90 ASA A70 ASA A50 ASA A30 ASA A20
Maximum scale-out (per cluster) 12 nodes (6 HA-pairs) 12 nodes (6 HA-pairs) 12 nodes (6 HA-pairs) 12 nodes (6 HA-pairs) 8 nodes (4 HA-pairs) 6 nodes (3 HA-pairs)
Raw capacity (per cluster) 91TB – 16PB raw 91TB – 16PB raw 68TB – 16PB raw 68TB – 11PB raw 15TB – 4.4PB raw 15TB – 2.2PB raw
Maximum effective capacity (per cluster)[4] Up to 69PB Up to 69PB Up to 69PB Up to 48PB Up to 19PB Up to 9.3PB
Maximum SSDs 1440 1440 1440 720 288 144
Controller chassis form factor 2x2U 4U; 48 internal SSD slots 4U; 48 internal SSD slots 2U; 24 internal SSD slots 2U; 24 internal SSD slots 2U; 24 internal SSD slots
Power consumption (median) 2718W (with NS224) 1950W 1232W 512W 495W 432W
Technical specifications for previous ASA models are available here.
  ASA C800 product ASA C400 product ASA C250 product
ASA C800 ASA C400 ASA C250
Maximum scale-out (per cluster) 12 nodes (6 HA-pairs) 12 nodes (6 HA-pairs) 12 nodes (6 HA-pairs)
Raw capacity (per cluster) 182TB–44.2PB raw 122TB–17.7PB raw 122TB–8.8PB raw
Maximum effective capacity (per cluster)[4] Up to 176.8PB Up to 70.7PB Up to 35.3PB
Controller Chassis Form Factor 4U; 48 internal SSD slots 4U+2U external shelf 2U; 24 internal SSD slots
Power Consumption (median) 1463W 1240W (with NS224) 491W

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Technical report

Find out more about data availability and integrity with NetApp ASA systems.
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Documentation

Quickly find what you need in our vast library of technical documentation.
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Support

Whatever support you need, find self-service solutions, tools, and downloads.
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Footnotes

  1. Terms and conditions apply.
  2. Up to 50% lower cost than the competition.
  3. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Platforms, Jeff Vogel, Chandra Mukhyala, September 18, 2024.
    A Leader in Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Platforms (2024) 
    A 5-year Leader in Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage (2019-2023) 
    A 3-year Leader in Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays (2016-2018) 
    A 6-year Leader in Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays (2013-2018) 

    GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
  4. Effective capacity based on 5:1 storage efficiency ratios with the maximum number of SSDs installed; space savings vary depending on workload and use cases.
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