NetApp FAS2000 Series

THE CHALLENGE
Explosive data growth
Whether you are responsible for a remote or branch office, a department, or a midsized enterprise, you are challenged more than ever before by shrinking budgets, overextended staff, and the need to do more with less. These challenges, coupled with the increasing complexity of your Windows® environment, can quickly eat into your budget and affect your productivity.

THE SOLUTION
Build for now and for the future
As your company grows, so does your need for efficient data storage. At NetApp, we think that you should install a data infrastructure only once and then expand as your needs grow. Our common end-to-end Unified Storage architecture makes it possible for you to expand capacity and add functionality to our systems quickly and easily. NetApp® FAS2000 series systems deliver the right blend of price, performance, and scalability.
Our FAS2000 series entry systems offer you excellent value:
• Integrated block- and file-level data access over Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks delivers capacity where you need it, when you need it, regardless of user or application
• Primary and/or secondary storage
• Intelligent management software
• Data-protection capabilities of high-end systems with NetApp ease of use
• Internal SAS (serial-attached SCSI) or SATA drives
• Built-in remote management

INCREASE EFFICIENCY
NetApp FAS2000 systems provide a powerful range of technologies and features based on Data ONTAP® to help increase storage utilization and the efficiency of your system and storage administrators.
• NetApp Snapshot™ provides point-in-time images, enabling you to perform near-instantaneous file-level or full data set recovery, and its minimal performance overhead makes it uniquely suited for protecting your production data.
• Thin provisioning helps avoid the costly over provisioning and time-consuming reconfiguration that is typical with other storage solutions.
• Deduplication enables you to store only one copy of each unique data object, substantially reducing capacity requirements.
• Highly efficient RAID-DP® protects against multiple failures in a RAID group.

ADAPT QUICKLY TO CHANGE
To help your data storage infrastructure adapt as your business grows, we offer:
• A new level of performance to support your most demanding applications
• New integrated SAS connectivity that enables up to 136TB of capacity as needed to support all your workloads
With the breadth of included and optional software you can:
• Dynamically expand or contract volumes or LUNs with a single command
• Upgrade from entry-level FAS2000 systems to midrange and high-end NetApp systems, using the same operating system, toolset, and software products
• Easily expand data management capabilities as your needs grow by using optional NetApp Software Packs,* which provide enterprise-proven capabilities for automated provisioning and restoration, simple efficient disaster recovery, automated application, and virtual machine-aware backup, recovery, and cloning
New simplified product structure enables flexibility to order preconfigured systems that include high-capacity drives at attractive prices; or customize your configuration by ordering configure-to-order systems that allow you to choose drive quantity, type, and capacity.

SIMPLE TO ACQUIRE, DEPLOY, AND MANAGE
You don’t need to be a storage expert to acquire, deploy, and manage FAS2000 storage systems and to keep your NetApp storage infrastructure in line with business requirements.
With NetApp System Manager, you can:
• Rapidly deploy NetApp storage systems, typically within minutes after installation.
• Provision storage for SAN (iSCSI/FCP) and NAS (CIFS/NFS), for both physical and virtualized server environments.
• Simple, workflow-based wizards automate.