Infortrend GSe 4000 G3 High-Performance Unified Storage Solution for SMBs, 2U 12-Bay - GSE 4012 3

Product Description

Infortrend GSe 4000 G3 High-Performance Unified Storage Solution for SMBs, 2U 12-Bay - GSE 4012 3

EonStor GSe SAS HDD storage, available from entry-level to high-end models, is a unified storage series that incorporates full-featured, enterprise-grade data services with RAID protection to deliver high performance and scalability without sacrificing affordability. With the feature of cloud integration, EonStor GSe allows SMBs and SMEs to integrate and expand their local SAN/NAS storage architecture into cloud services in an easy and costeffectively manner.

Unified Storage System
Designed for SMBs, EonStor GSe allows companies to store and manage their valuable data at a reduced total cost of ownership by integrating NAS and SAN into one unified storage system.

Based on improved hardware and firmware, this series supports file-level protocols, including CIFS, NFS, AFP, and FTP, as well as block-level protocols, such as Fiber Channel, iSCSI, and SAS. By integrating these protocols and harnessing the power of Intel multi-core CPU, EonStor GSe delivers not only outstanding flexibility but also incredible performance.

Storage Efficiency with Better TCO
EonStor GSe supports hybrid storage, and with its SSD cache and automated storage tiering, the storage system can automatically leverage the high performance I/Os of SSDs for frequently accessed data, and use HDDs for massive data archive, thereby increasing the system performance and ROI.

EonStor GSe also comes with inline compression and offline deduplication, which reduces the overall storage capacity required and thus saves costs.

Flexible Scalability with Scale-out and Scale-up
Through scale-out expansion, you can linearly increase performance and capacity for both block-level and file-level environments. When one GSe unit is no longer able to provide enough performance or capacity, you can simply add more GSe appliances to form a cluster—with a maximum of 4 GSe units.

Through scale-up expansion, each GSe unit can be connected to JBOD expansion enclosures to add up to 896 drives. Together with scale-out expansion, GSe supports more than 3000 drives with over 70PB storage capacity.

Comprehensive Business Applications

Integration with Microsoft AD and LDAP
EonStor GSe provides easy integration with existing business network environments through Microsoft® Active Directory (AD) and LDAP directory services, which allows system administrators to easily configure shared folder access permission by user account through ACL. Furthermore, EonStor GSe has perfectly integrated the LDAP Server function into the system, so customers do not need to construct additional LDAP Servers.

Essential Applications Designed for SMBs
EonStor GSe also includes essential applications for small and medium-sized businesses, such as email servers and document management software. Setting up and activating these applications can be completed with just a few clicks, even by those without a technical background. This greatly simplifies the tedious process of installing and configuring office-related tools, thus saving time.

Complete Data Protection and Backup
To minimize the risk of data loss from unexpected disk failures, natural disasters, or power outages, EonStor GSe supports various backup features, such as Intelligent Drive Recovery (IDR), snapshot, local/remote replication, and file-level rsync. EonStor GSe 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. EonStor GSe also incorporates crucial safety features to safeguard data from ransomware attacks. With immutable object storage, 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. To provide further security for administrative account access, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is also supported to reduce the risk of malicious attacks following password theft.

Complete Cloud Features
Integrated with the Intelligent Cloud Gateway Engine, EonStor GSe supports a wide range of both private and public cloud services, including Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure, and offers various cloud features such as cloud tiering, cloud cache, and cloud backup to make the most out of your cloud storage. Combining local and cloud storage, these features allocate data in an automatic and optimal manner while saving setup and maintenance costs.

Availability & Reliability
EonStor GSe is equipped with dual power supplies and cooling fans to help ensure high data availability. The Cache Backup Module (CBM), which consists of a super capacitor and a flash module, prevents data loss during a power interruption or outage. In addition, EonStor GSe 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.

Easy Maintenance
EonStor GSe features a modular hardware design, including hot-swappable fans and power supply units, to simplify maintenance and ensure continuous operations.

Intuitive Management Software
EonStor GSe 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 multiple appliances, monitor performance and capacity usage, and complete system configurations, all from one centralized interface.

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