December 17, 2015 at 09:39Best-in-class Infortrend EonStor DS 4000 Gen2. Ultra-high performance storage
The Infortrend EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 storage systems are among the first in the world on the latest Intel Xeon processor from the D-1500 product family, designed specifically for enterprise-level SANs and cloud storage, which, together with Infortrend's advanced hardware solutions, provides the best in its classroom performance.
When it comes to performance, the IOPS in the EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 series systems reaches 600K in the end-to-end channel, which is 20% higher than in the previous generation systems. In addition, the bandwidth in the systems of the new series is 30% wider and reaches 11000 MB / s in reading, 5500 MB / s in writing are values that set a new level of characteristics expected from middle-class storage.
EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 systems come in 2U 24-bay high-density (SFF) packages. This series features ultra-high performance and versatile connectivity due to the design of controllers with dual expansion cards for all host interfaces such as Fiber Channel, SAS and iSCSI for SAN, IP SAN and DAS in one efficient system. In addition, with a cache of up to 128 GB, an end-to-end 12 Gb / s SAS high-speed interface both on the host side and on the disk side, as well as optimized SSD functions, these systems provide users with incomparable flexibility, performance and capacity that satisfy the requirements of any application.
Above all, the EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 systems can expand to 444 disks, provide complete data security and integrity, restore them, are fully prepared for backup tasks, and also allow deep integration of VMware SRM and VASA and OpenStack, which makes them an outstanding solution for a wide range of applications, including media applications and entertainment, VDI, network servers, databases and cloud computing.
As part of the EonStor DS family, this new generation of storage systems immediately gained well-deserved recognition, just like the arrays of previous generations. Only in 2015, the Infortrend EonStor DS family received several prestigious awards and distinctions, including:
The first and fifth places in terms of price and performance in the global ranking of mid-range storage systems according to SPC-1 with record results of 0.24 and 0.43 IOPS per $ 1, respectively
Title “Disk product of the year of primary and middle level” in to the 2015 Storage Magazines
az Five-Star ITPro UK Report “New Opening of Entry-Level Storage for SMEs”
This year, Infortrend also won recognition in the latest issue of one of the most prestigious Gartner Magic Quadrant universal disk array analytics reports for its comprehensive general-purpose disk array concept and its ability to be implemented as the undisputed industry leader when it comes to innovative solutions in which the latest technological advances, such as 16 Gb / s Fiber Channel, 12 Gb / s SAS and 2.5 ”HDD, are applied, together with the integrated SANWatch array management package, which enables ovatelyam discover, configure, manage storage systems, including virtualization, as well as check their status.
You can find more information about the EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 Series storage systems atwww.infortrend.com/global/Home
Opinion of Trinity experts
To date, there are no results of open testing of EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 systems, but data on the younger DS 3000 line are available: www.storageperformance.org/benchmark_results_files/SPC-1/Infortrend /A00158_Infortrend_DS-3024B/a00158_Infortrend_EonStor_DS-3024B_SPC-1_full-disclosure-report.pdf
The results shown in this test are worthy of respect. The configuration included only 15% of unused space, while many more famous manufacturers allow themselves much worse disk space utilization (to optimize performance). Not only good performance results were shown (more than 200,000 IOPs with latency below 4ms on only 24 SSD drives), but also the lowest solution cost today (calculated on IOPs). Since the DS 4000 Gen2 system is noticeably more productive than the DS 3000, let's hope that its results will appear on the SPC pedestal in the near future.
If some 10 years ago Infortrend storage systems could be considered exclusively as inexpensive “workhorses” for standard loads, in recent years a lot of attention has been paid by the manufacturer to software components, such as integration with virtualization systems, cloud solutions, etc. As a result, EonStor DS systems are now at a completely different level - they are quite suitable for the most demanding customers and can be used as the main storage systems for business-critical applications. But, despite this breakthrough, the main advantage remained - quite affordable prices and excellent performance.
You can select storage systems and get advice from competent Trinity specialists here .
When it comes to performance, the IOPS in the EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 series systems reaches 600K in the end-to-end channel, which is 20% higher than in the previous generation systems. In addition, the bandwidth in the systems of the new series is 30% wider and reaches 11000 MB / s in reading, 5500 MB / s in writing are values that set a new level of characteristics expected from middle-class storage.
EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 systems come in 2U 24-bay high-density (SFF) packages. This series features ultra-high performance and versatile connectivity due to the design of controllers with dual expansion cards for all host interfaces such as Fiber Channel, SAS and iSCSI for SAN, IP SAN and DAS in one efficient system. In addition, with a cache of up to 128 GB, an end-to-end 12 Gb / s SAS high-speed interface both on the host side and on the disk side, as well as optimized SSD functions, these systems provide users with incomparable flexibility, performance and capacity that satisfy the requirements of any application.
Above all, the EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 systems can expand to 444 disks, provide complete data security and integrity, restore them, are fully prepared for backup tasks, and also allow deep integration of VMware SRM and VASA and OpenStack, which makes them an outstanding solution for a wide range of applications, including media applications and entertainment, VDI, network servers, databases and cloud computing.
As part of the EonStor DS family, this new generation of storage systems immediately gained well-deserved recognition, just like the arrays of previous generations. Only in 2015, the Infortrend EonStor DS family received several prestigious awards and distinctions, including:
The first and fifth places in terms of price and performance in the global ranking of mid-range storage systems according to SPC-1 with record results of 0.24 and 0.43 IOPS per $ 1, respectively
Title “Disk product of the year of primary and middle level” in to the 2015 Storage Magazines
az Five-Star ITPro UK Report “New Opening of Entry-Level Storage for SMEs”
This year, Infortrend also won recognition in the latest issue of one of the most prestigious Gartner Magic Quadrant universal disk array analytics reports for its comprehensive general-purpose disk array concept and its ability to be implemented as the undisputed industry leader when it comes to innovative solutions in which the latest technological advances, such as 16 Gb / s Fiber Channel, 12 Gb / s SAS and 2.5 ”HDD, are applied, together with the integrated SANWatch array management package, which enables ovatelyam discover, configure, manage storage systems, including virtualization, as well as check their status.
You can find more information about the EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 Series storage systems atwww.infortrend.com/global/Home
Opinion of Trinity experts
To date, there are no results of open testing of EonStor DS 4000 Gen2 systems, but data on the younger DS 3000 line are available: www.storageperformance.org/benchmark_results_files/SPC-1/Infortrend /A00158_Infortrend_DS-3024B/a00158_Infortrend_EonStor_DS-3024B_SPC-1_full-disclosure-report.pdf
The results shown in this test are worthy of respect. The configuration included only 15% of unused space, while many more famous manufacturers allow themselves much worse disk space utilization (to optimize performance). Not only good performance results were shown (more than 200,000 IOPs with latency below 4ms on only 24 SSD drives), but also the lowest solution cost today (calculated on IOPs). Since the DS 4000 Gen2 system is noticeably more productive than the DS 3000, let's hope that its results will appear on the SPC pedestal in the near future.
If some 10 years ago Infortrend storage systems could be considered exclusively as inexpensive “workhorses” for standard loads, in recent years a lot of attention has been paid by the manufacturer to software components, such as integration with virtualization systems, cloud solutions, etc. As a result, EonStor DS systems are now at a completely different level - they are quite suitable for the most demanding customers and can be used as the main storage systems for business-critical applications. But, despite this breakthrough, the main advantage remained - quite affordable prices and excellent performance.
You can select storage systems and get advice from competent Trinity specialists here .