Infortrend EonStor

Infortrend EonStor GSa

2019: GSa 2024

As the unified information warehouse, GSa 2024 devices support NAS, SAN and are suitable for data centers of any sizes. Systems are equipped with 24 disk compartments SFF with a possibility of "hot" replacement and two reserve controllers. At choice of the enterprises different options of high-speed indicators and a broad spectrum of the supported ports of data transmission depending on their actual demands are also provided. In terms of future expansion, the array supports up to 12 broad JB 3000 body that will allow to increase the capacity of storage to 744 disks. It is an indicator it is capable to meet even the highest requirements to information storage.

GSa 2024 enters the developing line of data warehouses based on EonStor GSa flash drives. The GSa 2000 and 3000 series represent the highly profitable solutions providing considerable acceleration of corporate applications - databases, virtualization, VDI, Microsoft Exchange and also programs for processing of media / entertaining content. Sriya GSa 5000, in turn. the flash - the technology created for extreme workloads of input-output provides the highest performance measures. The wide range of products enters a line, osobny to satisfy the most various needs of users in terms of performance, network interaction and flexibility of application.

Infortrend EonStor GSc

2018: EonStor GSc representation

On October 2, 2018 PRNewswire announced representation of Infortrend Technology, Inc. EonStor GSc. This hybrid cloud storage - the irreplaceable tool for the enterprises wishing to avoid dependence on suppliers.

Data transfer in a cloud brings with itself a set of advantages among which - high-speed performance and functional flexibility. However, in case of failure of a cloud service or excessive growth of expenses, data transfer on the platform of other supplier or back in local storage can cause notable costs, additional technical and other issues.

GSc provides the complete solution for all the difficulties described above. The enterprises can move the data between different cloud services and local storages, having been fully confident in transparency of process. A system provides a possibility of dynamic correction of resources of storage for achievement of optimal balance between functional advantages and the price. Besides, GSc allows to optimize utilization properties of an information warehouse by means of expanded options of caching. Thanks to all these advantages, the enterprises can accelerate data access in a cloud, caching often used blocks or files at the local level and saving seldom caused information in a cloud.

GSc is capable to be connected to platforms of the largest providers cloud services - Amazon S3Microsoft Azure Openstack Swift and Alibaba Cloud. A system is delivered in different form factors with different parameters of performance and network interaction that allows to satisfy requirements of the enterprises of any scales and types.

Infortrend EonStor GSe

2018: Certificates of VMware

The Infortrend Technology company in July, 2018 announced improved indicators of control functions and security for passing of certification of VMware Ready for vCenter 6.5 update 2 among lines of EonStor GS, GSc, GSe and GSe Pro.

The plug-in of cvSphere 6.5 HTML5 gives an opportunity of implementation of the built-in data warehouse in the environment of VMware, providing at the same time optimum characteristics of controllability and operational availability. Thanks to compatibility with vCenter 6.5 update 2, new development guarantees observance of the updated requirements to security.

Besides, the Infortrend company provides the support optimized under parameters by VMware for: VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) for hardware acceleration, VASA (vSphere API for Storage Awareness) for the optimized controllability and vCenter SRM (Site Recovery Manager) for operational data backup using all advantages of the built-in replication module from Infortrend.

2017: EonStor GSe Pro 200 with the Sonnet adapter and the Thunderbolt interface

On August 29, 2017 Infortrend presented two solutions - storage systems of EonStor GSe Pro 200 with the Sonnet adapter and the Thunderbolt interface, capable to satisfy needs of private multimedia professionals for transfer, editing and backup of media and data with high resolution.

Using the Thunderbolt interface the high-performance solution Infortrend allows to use all advantages of the superspeed to ensuring high capacity and support of free accomplishment of workflows 3D or 4K. Innovation is capable to establish connection between several Mac workstations for simultaneous accomplishment of several tasks - for example, editing and post-production, - that considerably increases efficiency. When using four broad body the general capacity of storage of media data can reach 400 TB. Besides, Infortrend offers specialists of the industry of the mass media and show business which are not locating the big budget, other profitable solution with support of smaller amount of memory.

These two solutions combining an information warehouse of EonStor GSe Pro 200 with the Thunderbolt interface provide all advantages of Infortrend RAID in a compact, thin, silent, desktop form factor and perfectly are suitable for the small working groups, remote studios and other multimedia professionals limited in space or means.

2016: Infortrend EonStor GSe Series

EonStor GSe is a line of the unified one-controller storage systems for the companies of small and medium business.

On October 4, 2016 the Infortrend company brought to the market of the Russian Federation a line of the unified one-controller storage systems of the EonStor GSe series with support of protocols of block, file and object level.

EonStor GSe is provided by three families of one-controller arrays — GSe 1000, GSe 2000 and GSe 3000. Performance of systems ~ 230 thousand IOPS, 4200 MB/s — on reading and 3900 MB/s — on record. As a part of each group of model, containing 12 (a form factor 2U) and 16 disks (a form factor 3U), with a possibility of expansion to 432 and up to 436 drives on a system, respectively, differing on input-output speed (High IOPS modification — models with the T index). Installation in the systems of drives standard (3.5 inches) and a small standard size (2.5 inches) is possible: SATA/SAS SSD, 10K/15K RPM of SAS and 7200^[1].

EonStor GSe Series models, (2016)

Arrays of EonStor GSe can be connected to hosts under protocols of file level — CIFS/SMB, NFS, AFP and FTP; block level — Fiber Channel, iSCSI and SAS; and also object level — REST API. Systems support integration with cloud providers Amazon S3 Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba AliCloud.

DSCon announced availability of the unified storage systems of Infortrend EonStor GSe Series to SMB Controllers of arrays of GSe 1000 and GSe 2000 are equipped with four preset ports 1Gb iSCSI, and GSe 3000 arrays — two ports 1Gb iSCSI and two ports 10Gb iSCSI (RJ45). Other types of connection are available using two interface units with FCoE ports 8Gb/16Gb Fibre Channels, 10Gb, 10Gb to iSCSI or 12Gb to SAS. In arrays of GSe 1000 one can be set, and in arrays of GSe 2000 and GSe 3000 — two interface units. The cache of the GSe 1000, GSe 2000 and GSe 3000 systems can extend respectively up to 32, 64 and 128GB. Services of instant pictures (snapshot) and also local and remote replication are included in the basic configuration of the EonStor GSe systems.

Infortrend EonStor GS

2017

EonStor GS 5000 series

On November 7, 2017 company Infortrend Technology, Inc. provided the flagman device of EonStor GS line - EonStor GS 5000 series.

The product is characterized by the upgraded hardware architecture with the increased power of calculations and numerous a host payments for providing excellent opportunities of network interaction.

DWH of a line of EonStor GS 5000 series, (2017)

The EonStor GS 5000 system is equipped with four 8-core processors Intel Xeon E5 providing the speed of any reading at the level of 700K IOPS and consecutive reading at the level of 22 GB / page. Four sets of extender cards provide support to 1,680 disks in a single system. The 64th host port is supported by protocols, allowing to change them, depending on requirements of different data centers. All these functions and opportunities in a format of the uniform device allow to reduce total ownership cost, to reduce cost and degree of complexity of installation of the data warehouse.

Product - the cloud integrated unified storage. In its structure a range of options cloud of gateways, including NAS, SAN and the cloud gateway work in a single system. Information storage functions, include SSD- caching and the automated distribution of the stored data on segments that increases the overall performance of a system.

With assistance of 4 independent broad slots allowing to connect to a system to 1,680 disks (with a general capacity over 20 PB), the 16th expansion a host payments, providing the maximum flexibility and connection speed by means of 64 optovlokonny channels of 16 GB / with and with a possibility of increase in amount of memory on 1 TB, the EonStor GS 5000 system provides exclusive indicators of capacity, network connection and scaling. Moreover, expanded support of protocols (8/16 FC, 10/1/40 GbE and 56 GbE InfiniBand, etc.) and also the unified architecture of storage (NAS + SAN + a cloud) the most exacting requests of data centers allow corporate users to satisfy, saving at the same time flexibility of targeted implementation.

EonStor GS 5000 is delivered complete with the simple and functional EonOne management tool that gives to IT personnel the chance to perform monitoring of the different systems using one central interface and to constantly maintain the maximum operability of an information warehouse thanks to a full-fledged set of notifications on system events. The built-in Cloud Storage Gateway allows to integrate with ease the solution with the largest cloud services, including Amazon S3 Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud, for operational expansion of storage capacity, data backup and cloud caching.

The expansion card for DWH of EonStor GS is released

On July 14, 2017 the Infortrend Technology company announced release of the optional extender card for family of the solutions EonStor GS. Its use allows double increase in capacity of disks.

Users can connect at discretion the second set of the broad body, thereby doubling the total number of the JBOD connections and providing twice more flexible capacity. For example, still about 420 disks can be connected to the product EonStor GS 3000 which was earlier supporting up to 445 disks by means of the built-in broad ports now, in total - up to 865 disks of all^[2].

In today's fast changing business environment of the enterprise continuously deal with two problems of the storage systems – the insufficient speed and capacity. For this reason Infortrend represents completions and will continue to implement progressive technologies in the solutions to help clients to cope with requirements today's and tomorrow. Thomas Kao, the senior director concerning Infortrend production planning

Representation of Infortrend EonStor GS, (2017)

2016: Infortrend EonStor GS 3000 Series

The line of storage systems of EonStor GS 3000 is provided by one and two-controller models containing 12 (a form factor 2U) and 16 disks (a form factor 3U), with a possibility of expansion to 432 and up to 436 drives on a system. In systems it is possible to install drives standard (3.5 inches) and a small standard size (2.5 inches): SATA/SAS SSD, 10K/15K RPM of SAS and 7200 RPM NL SAS/SATA.

Infortrend EonStor GS 3000 Series

Arrays of EonStor GS 3000 can be connected to hosts under protocols of file level – CIFS/SMB, NFS, AFP and FTP; block level – Fiber Channel, iSCSI and SAS; and also object level – REST API. Systems support integration with cloud providers, such as: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba AliCloud.

Each controller of an array is equipped with two preset ports 1Gb iSCSI and two ports 10Gb iSCSI (RJ45) whereas other types of connection are available using two interface units with FCoE ports 8Gb/16Gb Fibre Channels, 10Gb, 10Gb to iSCSI or 12Gb to SAS. So, for example, 4 ports 16Gb Fibre Channels, 8 ports 10Gb iSCSI, or 2 ports 16Gb FC and 2/4 ports 10Gb iSCSI (SFP+) can be installed in one controller. The cache of a system can extend up to 256GB.

Performance net a flash configurations of arrays of EonStor DS 3000 reaches 740,000 IOPS, with transmission band width in 11GB/s for data units, and 3000MB/s – for the CIFS protocol.

Services of data of a corporate class are included in the basic configuration of the EonStor GS 3000 systems: SSD cache, means of the automatic organization multi-level (4 levels) storages, local and remote replication, and many other things. Control is exercised using software of SANWatch 3.0 where all key functions of a system are integrated.

Infortrend EonStor DS

EonStor DS is the solution of data storage in SAN of initial level providing an exhaustive set of services of data that provides the highest data availability in Storage Area Network and the systems of direct connection of DAS, including local and remote replication and dynamic selection of capacity. In combination with modern design of the equipment, modular architecture, simplicity and intuitivism of management and the exclusive price, EonStor DS provides to the companies, reasonably suitable to costs, competitive advantages, allowing to provide compliance of their IT structure to constantly growing requirements of data storage.

2017: Support of the interface of SAS is organized

On July 14, 2017 Infortrend Technology announced inclusion of support of the interface of SAS of 12 GB / with in EonStor DS 3000U.

Support of the interface of SAS of 12 GB / with will be received by the EonStor DS 3000U systems and other products Infortrend. Support of SAS of 12 GB / with becomes an important trend in data storage area as allows to eliminate "bottlenecks" in corporate DWH.

Infortrend EonStor DS 3000

A series of storage systems from Infortrend about a host interfaces 8Gb/16Gb the Fibre Channel, 1GbE/10GbE iSCSI or 6Gb/s SAS — EonStor DS 3000 extending up to 360 disks.

In general a series of disk storage systems of data of EonStor DS 3000 differs in the flexible modular construction allowing including, thanks to the separate module a host interfaces, to perform their replacement according to requirements of the developing network infrastructure, told CNews in DSCon. Systems provide the high speed of consecutive reading — to 5500 MB/s and input-output performance at hit in a cache — up to 1.3 million IOPS.

The line of arrays of EonStor DS 3000 also includes a wide lineup of solutions, starting with 12-disk, a form factor 2U, and finishing 60-disk, a form factor 4U, 2.5 inches supporting 3.5-and 2.5-inch disks of SAS, Nearline SAS or SATA and also solid state drives (SSD) of SAS and SATA of a form factor.

Systems are offered with one or two controllers in which can be installed: 2 ports 16Gb FC, 4 ports 8Gb FC, 2 ports 10Gb iSCSI, 4 ports 1Gb iSCSI or 2 ports 6Gb SAS on the controller. The cache extends to 16Gb on the controller. Besides, in models on 16, 48 and 60 disks 2 ports 1Gb iSCSI are installed in each controller.

Thanks to a wide choice a host interfaces and models the user can pick up for quantity of disks with ease the model which is most precisely answering to his requests. Continuous data availability is also provided with excess power supplies and ventilation. Expansion of systems is performed using JBOD up to 360 disks and capacity in 1,440TB.

2015: Converged a host payment for Infortrend EonStor DS

In September, 2015 the Infortrend company provided EonStor DS converged a host payment, offered as updating for all storage systems of a line for providing enhanced capabilities of connection by means of interchangeable fiber channels of 16 GB / with and 8 GB / with and also ports 10Gb/s iSCSI and FCoE.

In process of development of activity of commercial enterprises also infrastructure requirements of their data centers change. Reogranization of data center, as a rule, represents rather difficult task. However, using new converged a host payment for the EonStor DS systems from Infortrend, users can upgrade with ease the data warehouses for satisfaction of the growing needs for information processing by means of simple transition to other modes of a hosting.

By means of the double EonStor DS 4000 series converged a host payment of the device give an opportunity of use of 20 protocols of iSCSI, including sixteen 10GbE to iSCSI and four 1GbE iSCSI. Besides, these systems are also supported by sixteen 8 GB / about FC or eight 16 GB / with FC. Existence of so ample opportunities of connection with support of 4 types of ports provides unsurpassed flexibility of a configuration and reorganization of data centers. It is expected that since December of this year of the structure of the company the FCoE connections will be supported.

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