What's different with AFF & EF series

[JerryYang]

What's different with AFF & EF series

[scott_lee]

Aff is more storage function, ef is performance.

[Maxtsen]

I think Aff is Storage Array data Management

ef is application data management

[Francis]

AFF ==> Unify storage & more function
EF ==> Best Performance

[Mathewyu]

If need some function like snapmirror must use AFF, EF series is good for low lantency,high iops.

[bevinsns1]

the ef series is based on the e-series hardware and software. It is Block storage only.

AFF is FAS based. File and Block storage with all the efficiency and data protection normallyou associated with NetApp.

[aselvan]

AFF is FAS system with All SSD Disk in it .

EF is E-Series system with All SSD Disk in it.

[NigelM]

Hi Jerry

both use a different OS too

All Flash FAS uses Clustered Data ONTAP OS

E-Series uses Santricity OS.

Also AFF is unified storage, all protocols NAS and SAN wheras E-Series is for SAN protocols only.

Nigel

[Ashun]

E-series is block storage -iSCSI/FC,the core of E-series is speed.  Lots of disks going as fast as they can with extremely low latency controllers and data paths.  You can mix and match disk types from SATA to SSD and build up a large pool given the shelf types.  At the end the core of E-series is fast block level storage.

AFF-series supports multiple protocols. It can do NAS (CIFS/NFS) and Block (iSCSI/FC/NVMe/FC).Supports completely uninterrupted updates and replacements.Physical space can be divided into many logical storage systems, each with separate domains of administration, access, and protocol

Select platform

1、Performance Needs: For low latency and high throughput, AFF is ideal. For cost-effective solutions, look to E-Series.

2、Workload Type:

AFF for performance-critical workloads.

E-Series for analytics or sequential data workloads.