Scalable foundation for high-performance AI training
NetApp AFX is high-performance, ultra-scalable, disaggregated AI storage. Built on our enterprise-grade ONTAP storage OS, AFX is engineered to supercharge your entire AI data pipeline. Eliminate the complexity and compromise of traditional AI storage.
NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with NetApp AFX 1K storage systems
This storage solution was validated in multiple stages by NetApp and NVIDIA to ensure that performance and scalability meet the requirements for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. The configuration was validated using a combination of synthetic workloads and real-world ML/DL workloads to verify both maximum performance and application interoperability.
Standard workload
Multiple concurrent LLM or fine-tuning training jobs.
Periodic checkpoints, where the compute requirements dominate the data I/O requirements significantly.
Enhanced workload
Multiple concurrent multimodal training jobs.
Periodic checkpoints, where data I/O performance is an important factor for end-to-end training time.
Performance workload
Configurations meet or exceed enhanced values.
The configurations shown in this document meet or exceed the values.
AFX + ONTAP
Harness the best data infrastructure for AI
NetApp AFX is high-performance, ultra-scalable, disaggregated AI storage. Built on our enterprise-grade ONTAP storage OS, AFX is engineered to supercharge your entire AI data pipeline. Eliminate the complexity and compromise of traditional AI storage.
Parallel NFS delivers the throughput that AI workloads demand while maintaining compatibility and eliminating complexity.
The most secure storage on the planet
Safeguard sensitive data with secure multi-tenancy while optimizing resources with granular QoS for compliant and responsible AI.
Hybrid cloud readiness
Only NetApp delivers native ONTAP integrations across every major cloud giving you ultra-efficient data access and mobility across on-premises and cloud environments with NetApp SnapMirror® replication and intelligent caching via FlexCache®.
Evaluate at your scale
Is your data ready for AI? Find out in a few minutes.
Describe what you are planning and how your data is handled today. The guide asks a few questions and gives you three readings on whether your data is secure, servable, and recoverable for AI, with the gaps to close first.
AFX integrates seamlessly into your enterprise data estate
Because it is ONTAP, AFX integrates seamlessly into your enterprise data estate and delivers granular, policy-based security so that AI accesses only the data you intend.
Dataset copies
Using ONTAP Snapshot copies and FlexClone, teams can instantly create space-efficient copies of datasets for parallel development and testing.
Customers can seamlessly manage, protect, and mobilize data, at the lowest cost, across hybrid clouds with a single storage OS and the industry’s richest data services suite.
FlexCache and SnapMirror replication technologies enable streamlined, space-efficient and automated data pipelines from data sources across the enterprise.
Instantly discover and curate relevant, always-fresh data across on-premises and cloud environments witha global, structured view, automated capture of change data and synchronization, and rapid semanticsearch. Ramp AI projects faster, boost result accuracy, and slash time to insight.
A global metadata catalog that actually thinks
At the heart of AIDE is a capability unlike anything else in the market: an automatically created and continuously updated global metadata catalog with powerful semantic search across your data estate.
Your data stays where it lives. AIDE continuously, automatically, and at scale brings intelligence to it.
What truly differentiates this is what AIDE does beyond standard file system metadata. AIDE actively analyzes file content to semantically enrich metadata, understanding what data actually means, not just where it sits. The result is a living, intelligent catalog that empowers enterprises to find, curate, use, and govern the right data at every stage of the AI data pipeline: from selection and transformation, through retrieval and serving, to AI applications and agents.
NETAPP AI DATA ENGINE
An end-to-end, storage-integrated AI data service
Simplify and secure AI data pipelines with NetApp® AI Data Engine™. Get unrivaled data clarity, efficiency, and governance from data preparation to GenAI app deployment.
Turbocharge your enterprise AI
AFX datasheet
Get the full technical picture on AFX, including detailed specifications for the AFX 2K controller, NX224 enclosures, software capabilities, and cluster configuration options. Everything you need to evaluate AFX for your AI infrastructure.
This NetApp Verified Architecture document covers solution architecture, hardware needs, storage fabric topology, and performance guidelines for deploying AFX with NVIDIA DGX GB300 systems. If planning an AI Center of Excellence, start here.
The NetApp Platform is built for the Agentic Enterprise
With native integrations into every major public cloud, the NetApp Platform gives you unmatched flexibility to make all your data AI-ready, wherever it lives.
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