Infortrend EonStor GS family - scalable unified storage for enterprises

EonStor GS is a unified enterprise storage solution that supports SAN, NAS and cloud services. With horizontal scalability, it allows enterprises to flexibly increase performance and capacity.

The EonStor GS family offers a wide and complete range of products, allowing you to choose the most suitable storage device according to your requirements and budget. In terms of hardware, it provides a variety of chassis formats, flexible choice of host cards, modular and reliable design, and high scalability. In terms of software, EonStor GS offers a rich set of services and intuitive management tools. Infortrend's solutions can also support solving complex problems with the help of matrices, which is particularly useful in algebraic analysis and algorithms related to matrix decomposition.

EonStor DS is one of Infortrend's main product lines of storage systems, including RAID disk arrays and a variety of SAN and NAS solutions. These products feature high compatibility with various protocols and operating systems, making them popular in many industrial and commercial solutions.

The EonStor GS is available in three variants, depending on the media supported - U.2 NVMe SSD, 3.5" SAS HDDs and 2.5" SAS SSDs. Whether you need an extremely high-performance solution or a system that meets high-capacity requirements, EonStor GS has it all.

Infortrend Technology - a leader in storage

Infortrend Technology is a technology company that has specialized for years in manufacturing advanced SAN and NAS storage systems. With innovative solutions such as all-flash arrays, hybrid storage, and NVMe protocol SSD-based systems, Infortrend has gained worldwide recognition. Infortrend products are successfully used by a wide variety of enterprises, from small businesses to large corporations, offering reliability and performance in any configuration.

Unified architecture

Infortrend offers a unified architecture that enables the integration of different storage systems into one cohesive platform. This architecture provides high performance, reliability and flexibility, making it ideal for companies and institutions requiring high-quality storage solutions. With a unified architecture, businesses can easily manage their data resources while minimizing operating costs and increasing and efficiency.

Advantages of the EonStor GS family

• High performance and reliability - thanks to advanced technology, the EonStor GS provides fast access to data and minimizes the risk of failure.
• Compatibility with various operating systems and applications - EonStor GS products work with Windows, Linux, Solaris, IBM and virtualization software such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix and Oracle.
• Easy deployment and management - intuitive management tools and technical support make deployment and management of EonStor GS systems simple and effective.
• Technical support - Infortrend offers top-level technical support to help customers get the most out of their storage systems.

Hybrid storage models

U.2 NVMe hybrid flash storage

The EonStor GS U.2 series uses hybrid storage, including U.2 NVMe SSDs, which provide extremely high performance and low latency compared to SAS/SATA SSDs. With support for QLC SSDs, the series offers more capacity at a lower cost, adapting to a variety of applications and enterprise requirements

High-performance models

The flagship EonStor GS 5000U offers an impressive 50 GB/s throughput, making it ideal for the most demanding workloads such as AI and HPC.

The EonStor GS 4000U and GS 3000UT models are available in 2U with 24 bays and 4U with 48 bays, providing up to 1.1 million IOPS and 24 GB/s of throughput to support applications requiring high performance and low latency.

PCIe Gen 4 drives - Support for PCIe Gen 4 SSDs, which offer twice the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 3, significantly increasing storage performance.

Economic models

The EonStor GS 3000U and GS 2000U are ideal solutions for enterprises that need large capacity at a favorable price, while reaping the benefits of high performance U.2 NVMe SSDs.

Data Reduction. Use inline compression to compress data in real time, and offline deduplication to remove duplicates. This can save you up to 66% of disk space.

SAS HDD storage

The EonStor GS 5000 offers high density with its 4U design with 90 bays and a throughput of 45 GB/s. It is the ideal solution for demanding workloads such as HPC and M&E.
Equipped with the 4th generation Intel Xeon-D processor, the GS 4000 G3 and GS 3000 G3 models offer a wide variety of configurations:
2U - 12 bays
3U - 16 bays
4U - 24 bays
4U - 40 bays
4U - 60 bays
4U - 90 bays
With a variety of options, you can choose the best solution for your needs without having to compromise.

PB-level capacity. With support for high-capacity HDDs and scale-up and scale-out expansion, it's easy to increase storage capacity to more than 70 PB.

The EonStor GS 2000 and GS 1000 are two of Infortrend's most popular arrays, offering high performance and reliability, just like a Dell computer. These arrays are ideal for businesses that require high-quality storage solutions, such as Dell PCs, Dell monitors and Dell servers. With advanced features such as automatic tiering and deduplication, the EonStor GS 2000 and GS 1000 ensure optimal use of storage resources, resulting in better performance and lower operating costs.

SAS HDD storage

High Performance: The SAS SSD series delivers both high I/O counts (IOPS) and high throughput, reaching up to 900K IOPS and 11 GB/s read and 8 GB/s write, supporting a variety of business-critical applications.

Highly scalable: by combining with 2.5″ SAS SSD JBODs, EonStor GS can accommodate more than 800 SSDs in a single system.

Intelligent SSD Management: With built-in intelligent algorithms, EonStor GS prevents simultaneous failures of multiple SSDs and extends their lifespan. In addition, by monitoring SSD wear in real time, the system alerts the administrator before a drive failure occurs

Features:

Scale-out

The best storage expansion solution for enterprises! EonStor GS supports scale-out expansion, allowing you to easily increase performance and capacity on demand.

In a scale-out architecture, GS allows you to linearly increase performance and capacity in both block-level and file-level environments. When one GS unit is no longer sufficient in terms of performance or capacity, simply add more GS units to form a cluster - with up to four GS units. GS also supports scale-up with expansion units, allowing up to 896 drives to be added to increase storage capacity.

Data protection

Infortrend offers advanced data protection solutions, including data redundancy, backup and recovery. These solutions ensure that data is safe and available at all times, which is especially important for companies and institutions that require high-quality storage solutions. With RAID technology, remote and local replication, and WORM features, Infortrend ensures that your data is protected from all threats, including ransomware attacks.

Comparison with other solutions

Infortrend offers products that are compatible with Windows, Linux, Solaris and IBM operating systems, as well as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix and Oracle virtualization software. Infortrend products are also compatible with Dell computers, Dell monitors and Dell servers, making them ideal for companies and institutions that require high-quality storage solutions. It is worth noting that Infortrend is a leader in storage and offers products that are used by many companies and institutions around the world. Infortrend products are known for their high quality, reliability and flexibility, making them ideal for companies and institutions requiring high-quality storage solutions.

Powerful and easy to use

One namespace for user convenience: The GS horizontal scaling feature integrates multiple GS units into a single file system, where all folders and files can be accessed within one main path. This makes it easy for users to find and use data. For example, files initially stored on different GS units and scattered in different paths (e.g., \server01, \server02, \server03) will be accessible under the same path (e.g., \server01) in the scale-out architecture, so users don't have to worry about where the data is actually stored.

Auto-balancing to reduce the burden of storage management by IT: Auto-balancing is an intelligent data migration assistant. It automatically detects and suggests a location to migrate data based on IT-defined folder attributes and migration policies (e.g., certain data must be stored on SSD), relieving IT staff from manual planning and data migration.

In addition, the use of artificial intelligence in EonStor GS significantly improves the performance and functionality of the system, enabling more efficient data management for a variety of business and home applications.

High storage efficiency

EonStor GS features inline compression and offline deduplication to reduce the required storage capacity, thereby lowering data storage costs. In addition, you can schedule the deduplication process or stop it as needed to avoid impacting performance during peak hours and maintain management flexibility.

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You can also configure GS as a hybrid storage architecture depending on your application requirements. With automatic memory tiering and SSD cache, the system helps you create a high-performance, high-capacity storage system at a lower price:

Auto-tiering of memory allows the use of U.2 NVMe SSDs in GS units and NL-SAS/SATA HDDs in expansion units to take advantage of the high performance of SSDs and large capacity of HDDs.

SSD cache uses a small number of SSDs in GS units as a cache, which accelerates read performance in SAN storage architecture. It also speeds up read/write and file operations in NAS architecture, providing a better user experience.

A new level of high availability

EonStor GS offers block-level active-active HA service to ensure service continuity, making it ideal for business-critical applications that have a very low tolerance for downtime. Organizations can leverage the HA service's features to easily deal with planned or unplanned events such as failures, system maintenance and human error.

• Automatic switching and recovery ensure uninterrupted operations, achieving near-zero RTO (recovery time): Monitored by a witness server, the HA service automatically switches service between two storage devices when one of them fails, and when it resumes. With continuous availability, users won't notice a service interruption.
• Synchronous remote replication ensures no data loss, achieving zero RPO (recovery point): HA service continuously replicates identical and complete copies of data from one storage device to another, ensuring service readiness at all times and eliminating the risk of data loss in the event of a disaster.
• Fully utilize storage resources with active-active architecture: By assigning both storage devices to provide services simultaneously, you can optimize storage resources to a greater extent than with active-passive clusters.

Smart SSD management

EonStor GS U.2 NVMe hybrid flash storage and EonStor GS SAS SSD hybrid flash storage feature an intelligent algorithm designed specifically for SSDs. This algorithm not only reduces the total number of writes to the SSD, which helps extend its lifespan, but also prevents simultaneous failures of multiple SSDs that could lead to data loss. In addition, EonStor GS can estimate the remaining life of each SSD and timely notify the administrator of the need to replace a drive that is close to failure.

SSD failure notification. EonStor GS monitors the health of SSDs in real time and is able to estimate the remaining life of each drive. The system provides early notification to the administrator when an SSD is nearing the end of its life, enabling replacement before failure and minimizing the risk of data loss.

Complete data protection and backup

Nowadays, when data storage is crucial, SSD failures can be catastrophic. To prevent simultaneous SSD failures, it makes sense to invest in solutions that offer redundancy and high reliability. Regular backups and monitoring drive health are basic steps that can help avoid data loss.

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With robust data protection features, EonStor GS keeps your data safe:

RAID technology ensures data integrity in the event of a disk failure.

WORM and immutable object storage effectively protect data from encryption by ransomware.

Local replication, including volume copying and snapshots at the file and block level, provides flexibility in data backup and enables efficient restoration of data when needed.

Remote replication allows you to back up data from a GS device to a remote GS device or public cloud.

The EonStor GS also acts as a backup appliance with its backup server function, allowing easy backup of files from computers, file servers and the public cloud, reducing the cost of third-party backup software that typically charges based on data volume or number of sources.

Host interfaces

Since there is a wide range of enterprise applications, the required communication interface may vary depending on the application. Infortrend offers a rich selection of communication interfaces for SAN environments, including:

• 16Gbps FC,
• 32Gb/s FC,
• 1Gbps iSCSI,
• 10Gb/s iSCSI,
• 12Gb/s SAS,

which ensures full compatibility with all applications. In addition, 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 100GbE and 200GbE ports are available for network environments, enabling fast and reliable data sharing and high quality data transfer.

Integrated cloud solution

Integrating enterprise data with the cloud is one of the trends of the future. EonStor GS can help move files or block-level data to public or private clouds as needed. In addition to low-cost access to infrequently used data, cloud integration can also be used to back up data in the cloud space, allowing for the establishment of a remote backup structure, creating a highly available data center.

Intuitive management software

EonStor GS uses EonOne and EonView to help customers improve storage and service efficiency, increasing productivity.

• EonOne is a browser-based tool with an intuitive management interface. It allows IT staff to easily manage a cluster and multiple devices, monitor performance and capacity utilization, and perform system configurations - all from a single, centralized platform.
• EonView is a client tool for general users, available on Windows and macOS platforms. It simplifies storage system settings, such as user accounts and storage limits, for easy file sharing.

Modular hardware design

From power supplies, cooling fans, controllers to host boards, all Infortrend products use a modular design, which reduces maintenance complexity and enables faster, accurate technical support and RMA services. This keeps your storage system free of downtime, ensuring service continuity, ultimately increasing productivity and competitiveness.

Applications

Implementation

Easy deployment - fast and simple storage deployment

Deployment of Infortrend storage systems is quick and easy, so companies can quickly start taking advantage of the advanced features offered by these solutions. Infortrend provides technical support at every stage of deployment, allowing storage systems to be launched efficiently and without problems.

Compatibility with various operating systems and applications

Infortrend products are compatible with a wide range of operating systems and applications, making them extremely versatile. The company offers support for Windows, Linux, Solaris, IBM operating systems, as well as virtualization software from VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, Oracle and others. As a result, Infortrend products can be easily integrated into existing IT infrastructures, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.