EonStor GSx Family
High-Performance Parallel File Storage for Enterprises
Overview
U.2 NVMe All-Flash Storage
EonStor GSx U.2 all-flash series utilizes U.2 NVMe SSDs to deliver ultra-high IOPS and throughput performance with a low latency, which makes them a perfect choice for HPC and AI applications that prioritize speed and responsiveness. The GSx U.2 series offers GSx 5000U and 4000U models available in 2U 24-bay form factor.
SAS HDD Storage
The EonStor GSx SAS HDD series delivers high capacity and high performance with cost-efficient scalability, enabling you to select the product that best fits both your current and future application needs. This series offers high-density models: GSx 5000 in a 4U 90-bay design and GSx 4000 available in 4U 60-bay and 4U 90-bay. The solutions are ideally suited for traditional HPC applications operating with massive data volumes.
Ultra-High Performance with Parallel File Access
EonStor GSx facilitates parallel data processing from multiple GSx appliances to deliver ultra-high performance for accessing sheer volumes of data. GSx evenly distributes data in the cluster using the intelligent data allocation mechanism, striping large files across multiple GSx appliances. When client hosts send requests for data access, GSx swiftly locates data paths and enables direct and simultaneous data access from the data-owning GSx appliances. Compared to non-parallel file systems such as scale-out NAS, such approach effectively reduces the time required for locating and accessing data. Additionally, by employing block protocol for file transfer, GSx eliminates file protocol overhead, maximizing performance for demanding applications.
By striping large files across multiple GSx appliances, the GSx cluster facilitates simultaneous data access from these appliances, leveraging their combined performance:
With a single GSx unit featuring up to 43GB/s read and 16.5GB/s write throughput performance, the GSx cluster linearly increases performance as you add new GSx units. Consequently, a cluster of 10 GSx units delivers nearly 10 times the performance of a single GSx, facilitating seamless parallel file access.
High Scalability
EonStor GSx features high scalability to meet the growing demands of ever-expanding datasets. Scale-out function empowers enterprises to dramatically expand both performance and capacity by adding up to 10 appliances to the cluster. For GSx SAS HDD models, the scale-up feature facilitates capacity expansion, with each GSx storage appliance connecting to a JBOD expansion enclosure to add over 270 drives.
Moreover, GSx supports a single namespace architecture allowing users to seamlessly access and manage data.
Easy Deployment and Management
EonStor GSx integrates functions of I/O nodes and metadata servers directly into GSx appliances. This dramatically simplifies IT architecture and deployment of parallel file storage, offering organizations a straightforward solution of high-performance parallel file access storage for their I/O-intensive workloads. Additionally, special wizards facilitate GSx cluster deployment, guiding IT administrators through the entire system installation process.
EonOne, the web-based management software tool provided with the EonStor GSx parallel file storage system, is designed to easily set up configurations for increased productivity. Its intuitive interface simplifies the tasks of IT administrators, allowing them to effectively manage multiple GSx appliances, monitor performance and capacity usage, and configure GSx systems, all through a centralized platform.
Space-Saving Architecture
When considering a traditional parallel file system architecture, enterprises must prepare metadata servers, multiple I/O node servers, and allocate rack space in the data center. EonStor GSx, on the other hand, offers a solution that eliminates the need for this additional hardware.
Furthermore, GSx doesn’t require installing additional parallel file system software, as its functionality is already included to enable parallel file access.
High Efficiency
For higher performance in accessing frequently used data, EonStor GSx SAS HDD models support SSD cache that stores metadata and small files in SSDs. By using only a few U.2 NVMe SSDs, GSx SAS HDD storage can effortlessly accelerate I/O operations while providing large storage capacity.
All GSx SAS HDD models feature SAS SSD support for hybrid storage, enabling data tiering that delivers fast and cost-efficient access to workloads with large data volumes and consistent access patterns. This ensures that ‘hot’ data is stored on SSDs for rapid retrieval.
Data Protection
EonStor GSx parallel file storage provides robust data protection mechanisms to safeguard against various risks. First, RAID 5/6 technology helps the system to run normally and ensures your data is fully protected even in the case of a drive failure. As an additional layer of protection against disasters such as hardware failures or catastrophic on-site events, you can back up data to a remote location using the remote replication feature to enable effective disaster recovery measures.
Major Client Host OS Compatibility
EonStor GSx can work with client hosts running on major OS platforms. GSx ensures compatibility with Linux and Windows systems through client agents enabling parallel file access. Furthermore, GSx supports the most popular file-sharing protocols: NFS – for Linux-based systems and CIFS – for Windows environments.