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Infortrend EonStor GS 2012 Storage

With 4x configuration options, the 2U Infortrend EonStor GS 2012 Gen1 storage appliance houses 12x 3.5” drive bays. This cloud-integrated Unified Storage system supports NAS, block, object storage and cloud gateway. Basic options include standard or performance single and dual controller configurations with high-performance I/O. These controllers support Intel Pentium 2-core processors, as well as the Intel Pentium 4-core processors for the performance models.
Infortrend GS 2012 front view
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Infortrend GS 2012 Storage

GS 2012RCF

Dual redundant controllers

Infortrend GS 2012 Storage

GS 2012SCF

Single upgradable to dual redundant controllers

Infortrend GS 2012 Storage

GS 2012RTCF

Dual high performance redundant controllers

Infortrend GS 2012 Storage

GS 2012STCF

Single high performance upgradable to dual redundant controllers

Infortrend EonStor GS 2012 Storage - System Overview

Additional Information

Infortrend GS 2012 front view

Equipped with advanced data protection capabilities to safeguard your digital assets, the Infortrend EonStor GS 2012 storage supports up to 8GB to 64GB DDR4 cache memory with a single controller, and up to 16GB to 128GB DDR4 cache memory with dual redundant controllers. Similarly, the system supports 12x 3.5-inch drive bays compatible with SAS or SATA HDD or SSD configurations. The drive interface supported is up to 6Gb/s SATA or 12Gb/s SAS. A super capacitor with flash module provides support for the cache backup in the event of a power failure. Another one of the performance features on this system is GPUDirect, which bypasses the CPU and system memory to directly address the host system GPU for maximum efficiency and low latency. The differentiating factor between these platforms are the controllers, which offer choices for processors, memory capacities and NICs.

Standard

EonStor GS 2012RCF
  • Dual redundant controllers, Intel Pentium 2-core CPUs
EonStor GS 2012SCF
  • Single controller, Intel Pentium 2-core CPU

High-Performance

EonStor GS 2012RTCF
  • Dual redundant high-performance controllers, Intel Pentium 4-core CPU, high IOPS
EonStor GS 2012STCF
  • Single high-performance controller, Intel Pentium 4-core CPU, high IOPS

Infortrend EonStor GS 2012 Storage rear view

Block level protocols include FC, iSCSI, and SAS. Each GS unit can be connected to JBOD expansion enclosures to add up to 896 drives through scale-up expansion. By using additional Infortrend series appliances per cluster for scale-out, the maximum number of drives supported can reach 3584 drives. The back of the EonStor GS 2012 supports dual onboard SAS expansion ports, an ethernet management port, a mini-USB connector, and 2x host board expansion slots for different speed ports. Some of the supported operating systems include OpenStack Cinder, Citrix XenServer, macOS X, and Windows Server, to name a few. To manage the storage appliance independently, Infortrend offers EonOne to help manage clusters and multiple appliances performance, capacity usage, and system configurations from an intuitive web-based interface. Two redundant 460W 80 PLUS Bronze rated power supplies provide the system’s power.

Infortrend EonStor GS 2012 Storage - Specifications

Processor - 1 Socket

  • Intel Pentium 2-Core
  • Intel Pentium 4-Core
  • Up to 4x cores
  • Up to 4x threads
  • TDP up to 68W

Cache Memory

Single Controller:

  • Default DDR4 8GB, up to 64GB

Dual Controller:

  • Default DDR4 16GB, up to 128GB

Drive Bays

Front Bays:

  • 12 x 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drive bays

Max Drive Number:

  • Per Appliance: 896 (via expansion enclosures)
  • Per Cluster: 3584 (via scale-out with other hseries of appliances)

Compatible Drives:

  • 2.5" SAS SSD
  • 2.5" 12Gb/s SAS 10,000 RPM HDD
  • 3.5" 12Gb/s NL-SAS 7,200 RPM HDD
  • 2.5" SATA SSD, 3.5" 6Gb/s SATA 7,200 RPM HDD (for single-controller models only)
  • 2.5" U.2 NVMe SSD (for U.2 SSD cache models; must be purchased from Infortrend)

RAID Options

  • RAID 0
  • RAID 1
  • RAID 3
  • RAID 5/5F
  • RAID 6/6F
  • RAID 10
  • RAID 30
  • RAID 50
  • RAID 60

Expansion Enclosures (JBODs)

  • JB 3012A
  • JB 3016A
  • JB 3024BA
  • JB 3025BA
  • JB 3060L
  • JB 3090

Host Board Options

  • 16Gb/s FC x 4
  • 32Gb/s FC x 2
  • 32Gb/s FC x 4
  • 1GbE (RJ45) x 4
  • 10GbE (RJ45+) x 2
  • 25GbE (SFP28) x 2
  • 12Gb/s SAS x 2

Chassis

  • Enclosure
  • Height: 88mm
  • Width: 449mm
  • Depth: 500mm
  • Weight: 31.97 lbs (14.5 kg)

Power Supply

  • 2 x 460W 80 PLUS Bronze

Efficiency

  • Block level: Offline compression, offline deduplication
  • File level: Inline compression, offline deduplication

Data Services

Default software features include:

  • Thin provisioning (block level)
  • Scale-out (file level): 1 appliance per cluster
  • Scale-out (block level): 4 appliances per cluster
  • Snapshot (volume-based): 64 per source volume, 128 per system
  • Local replication: 4 per source volume, 16 per system
  • Remote replication (file level): support Rsync with 128-bit SSH encryption

Optional software features require additional license:

  • HA Service (block level, file level)
  • SSD cache (block level, file level)
  • Automated storage tiering: 4 tiers per pool
  • Advanced scale-out (file level): 4 appliances per cluster
  • Advanced snapshot (folder-based): 1024 per folder (supported on Btrfs file system only)
  • Advanced snapshot (volume-based): 256 per source volume, 4096 per system
  • Advanced local replication: 8 per source volume, 256 per system
  • Advanced remote replication (block level): 8 per source volume, 64 per system

Supported Protocols

  • File level: CIFS/SMB (version 2.0/3.0), NFS (version 2/3/4), AFP (version 3.1.12), FTP/FXP (vsftp 2.3.4), WebDAV (httpd package 2.4.6)
  • Block level: FC, iSCSI, SAS, NVMe/TCP, NVMe/RDMA
  • Object level: RESTful API (Amazon S3-compatible API)
  • GPUDirect Storage (GDS): Supported on NVMe-oF (Block) and NFS over RDMA (File) environments for direct GPU memory access.

  • Scale-out requires NFS version 4 or above.
  • NVMe/RDMA is supported only on host channels with RDMA functionality.

Cloud Gateway

EonCloud Gateway supports integration with the following cloud providers:

  • Amazon S3
  • Baidu Cloud
  • Yandex
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Tencent Cloud
  • hiCloud
  • Alibaba Cloud

Management

  • Web-based EonOne management software
  • User account management
  • Group management
  • Folder management - folder access control
  • Quota management
  • Folder encryption with AES
  • Integration with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Linux LDAP
  • Storage Resource Management to analyze history of resource usage
  • Multi-factor authentication login mechanism
  • File-level QoS (network traffic control)
  • SMI-S standard interface for hypervisor management applications

Operating System and Hypervisors

  • Microsoft Windows Server
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise
  • Sun Solaris
  • MacOS X
  • VMware
  • Citrix XenServer
  • OpenStack Cinder

Infortrend EonStor GS 2012 Storage - Documentation

Infortrend EonStor GS 2012 Storage Data Sheet Infortrend Expansion Enclosure Guide Infortrend EonStor GS 2012 Front and Back View Infortrend EonStor GS Compatibility Guide Infortrend GS Host Board and Memory Guide
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