NetApp EF540 Technical Specifications

Technical specifications for the NetApp EF540 flash array all-SSD enterprise storage system.

Attribute NetApp EF540
Disk drives 12 or 24
Raw capacity 9.6TB or 19.2TB
Drive types supported 2.5" SSD 800GB
Form factor 2U/24
Memory 24GB
Base I/O interfaces (8) 8Gb FC
I/O interface expansion options

(8) 8Gb FC
(8) 6Gb SAS
(4) 10Gb iSCSI
(4) 40Gb InfiniBand
OS version SANtricity® 10.84
High-availability features
  • Dual active controller with automated I/O path failover
  • RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10
  • Redundant, hot-swappable controllers, disk drives, power supplies, and cooling fans
  • Automatic drive failover and detection and rebuild using global hot spare drives
  • Mirrored data cache with battery backup and destage to memory
  • Nondisruptive controller firmware upgrades (no interruption to data access)
  • SANtricity proactive drive health monitoring proactively tracks SSD wear life and alerts when threshold is reached
  • SANtricity persistent monitor makes periodic copies of the storage system configuration
Operating systems supported Microsoft® Windows Server®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware® ESX®, Oracle® Solaris, HP HP-UX, Apple® Mac® OS
Software features

Standard
Dynamic volume expansion, dynamic capacity expansion, dynamic RAID-level migration, dynamic segment size migration, persistent monitor, proactive drive health monitoring, nondisruptive firmware upgrades, background media scan with autoparity check and correction

Optional
SANtricity Snapshot®, SANtricity remote mirroring