NetApp : end-to-end NVMe – Delivering even more for our customers

A few years ago, NetApp was the first major vendor to release end-to-end NVMe for flagship arrays, and we're about to extend that leadership even further. If you're curious about what that's going to look like and why it's important, head on over to the What Is NVMe? - Benefits and Use Cases | NetApp page.

If you are an existing NetApp® ONTAP® SAN customer, this is great news, because you could be getting significantly more performance by upgrading to the latest version of ONTAP. If you're not using ONTAP SAN yet, and you're looking to buy a new storage array, make sure that you're getting the best performance for your money and are future proofing your investment. That means putting end-to-end NVMe right at the top of your checklist.

The really important part of this is the end-to-end part, all the way from host to media, not just inside the array. That's because most of the benefits lie in the NVMe connection between a server and the storage. For local storage, that's easy. If you have NVMe media, then the communication is always going to be NVMe, and that gives you a whole stack of benefits compared to any SCSI-based system. More CPU cycles for applications, faster response times, and better throughput. The performance boost is so good that in many cases, a single local NVMe drive can be significantly faster than the fastest traditional SAN.

Figure 1) Traditional SAN vs local NMVe