Infortrend GS 4000 G3 Ultra-High Performance SAS HDD Unified Storage, 4U 40-Bay - GS 4040R3/S3

Product Description

Infortrend GS 4000 G3 Ultra-High Performance SAS HDD Unified Storage, 4U 40-Bay - GS 4040R3/S3

EonStor GS SAS HDD storage series is a unified storage solution for enterprises of all sizes in various applications. Supporting hybrid environments that integrate SAN, NAS, and cloud services, this series includes a wide range of models ready to meet different needs, from performance-hungry applications, general enterprise workloads, to storage solutions
requiring a high-density hardware design. With its high performance, flexibility, and scalability, EonStor GS can help organizations boost overall productivity and efficiency.

High Performance
EonStor GS delivers exceptional throughput, ensuring seamless handling of large I/O operations and file transfers, even under heavy workloads. The GS 5000 series, featuring high-speed 200GbE RDMA and SAS 24G expansion interface, delivers an outstanding performance of up to 45GB/s read and 20GB/s write throughput. This makes it ideal for applications that demand rapid access to large volumes of data.

Flexible Scalability with Scale-out and Scale-up
Through the scale-out expansion, you can linearly increase performance and capacity for both block-level and file-level data. When one GS unit is no longer able to provide enough performance or capacity, you can simply add more GS appliances to form a cluster—with a maximum of 4 GS units. Through scale-up expansion, each GS unit can be connected to JBOD expansion enclosures, accommodating over 800 drives and providing more than 18PB of storage capacity.
Together with scale-out expansion, GS supports more than 3000 drives with over 70PB storage capacity.

Easy Data Access and Simple IT Management
Users can access shared folders in a single root directory under a single namespace, without having to worry about where the data is stored. Auto-balancing is also supported to achieve load balancing, which relieves the burden of manual planning and configuration for IT personnel.

High-Density Design
Enterprises with limited rack space can still get a powerful and high capacity storage solution. Leveraging the high-density 4U 40, 60, or 90-bay models, you can easily achieve your workload requirements with a reduced hardware footprint.

Storage Efficiency with Better TCO
EonStor GS supports SSD cache, which leverages the high speed and low latency of SSDs to deliver faster performance for frequently accessed data. By using only a few SSDs on an HDD-based appliance, SSD cache can help meet enterprises’ requirements for both high I/O loads and large storage capacity at a reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). This feature brings advantages to read-intensive SAN environments, such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and email service (e.g. Microsoft Exchange). It also enhances read and write performance for NAS and improves user experience with file operation when a large number of files are stored on a GS unit.

In addition, EonStor GS comes with inline compression and offline deduplication, which reduces the storage capacity required and thus saves further storage costs. The inline compression feature compresses raw files in real-time, which greatly reduces the data size and the transfer time. To deal with repeated files saved by manual backups or archiving, offline deduplication helps you automatically remove duplicate data from an appliance or a cluster to free up storage space.

Complete Data Protection and Backup
EonStor GS offers various data protection mechanisms to guarantee data safety. First, Infortrend's unique RAID technology ensures your data remains intact even in case of a drive failure. With snapshot, a flexible backup tool, you can back up local resources on a storage system by schedule, including volumes and shared folders, and roll back to a previous version when needed. For further protection, you can back up data to a remote GS appliance using the remote replication feature, or to a public cloud with EonCloud Gateway. Immutable object storage, another crucial feature for data protection, safeguards data against ransomware attacks. It retains data with WORM (write once read many) storage protection, where data gets “locked” and therefore cannot be modified, deleted, overwritten, or even encrypted by ransomware. By setting a retention period, you can easily follow government compliance requirements or company policies on data retention. For companies requiring an easy-to-use and reliable storage solution for file backup, EonStor GS can be utilized as a backup appliance, allowing you to leverage its backup server function to back up data from PC, file servers, and public cloud through a GUI interface. Additionally, you can set options such as a backup schedule and a retention period to best fit your needs.

New Level of High Availability
From power supplies, cooling fans, to controllers, the EonStor GS appliance is built in a modular, redundant, and hot-swappable hardware design, which reduces maintenance complexity and ensures uninterrupted services, whether during a regular system upgrade or even in an unplanned maintenance event due to a component failure.

In addition, EonStor GS offers HA service to deliver continuous availability with a near-zero RTO (recovery time objective) and a zero RPO (recovery point objective). With two storage devices deployed at near sites, the HA service provides block-level active-active storage and file-level activepassive storage for business-critical applications that have an extremely low tolerance for downtime. Featuring synchronous remote replication and auto-failover, this solution ensures identical and complete copies of data are stored on both storage devices and avoids service downtime due to planned or unexpected events. Auto-failback is available in block-level HA service, allowing a storage device to resume services without switching manually.

Intuitive Management Software
EonStor GS adopts EonOne, a web-based management software tool, to assist customers in raising storage and service efficiency for increased productivity. With its intuitive interface design, IT administrators can easily manage a cluster and  ultiple appliances, monitor performance and capacity usage, and complete system configurations, all from one centralized interface.

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