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 fail-over
  • RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10
  • Redundant, hot-swappable controllers, disk drives, power supplies and cooling fans
  • Automatic drive fail-over, and detection and rebuild using global hot spare drives
  • Mirrored data cache with battery backup and destage to memory
  • Non-disruptive controller firmware upgrades (no interruption to data access)
  • SANtricity proactive drive health monitoring tracks SSD wear life proactively and provides alerts when the threshold is reached
  • The 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, non-disruptive firmware upgrades, background media scan with auto-parity check and correction

Optional
SANtricity Snapshot®, SANtricity remote mirroring