ESVA F20

Cost-effective Choice for Capacity-Intensive Applications

The Infortrend ESVA F20 is designed to support a powerful, reliable and flexible Fibre Channel (FC) SAN. Through expansion unit attachment, a single ESVA F20 subsystem can be scaled to provide a maximum of 112 SATA drives. By consolidating up to 12 ESVA systems into a storage pool, the maximum capacity can be further expanded to 1344 drives. For secondary, capacity-demanding applications, the ESVA F20 is the ideal choice to store and protect data with the optimal dollar-per-gigabyte advantage.

Overview

Optimize Returns on Investment

Through storage virtualization technology, the capacity and computing power of multiple ESVA storage systems can be consolidated into a storage pool. For the most efficient utilization of pooled storage capacity and bandwidth, ESVA arrays support thin-provisioning and an intelligent access prioritizing mechanism on its natively-virtual architecture. With the two advanced technologies, storage utilization can be optimized and applications can achieve their ideal service levels. The ESVA makes every penny of your storage investments bring the greatest benefits for you.

Simplify Storage Infrastructure

The storage pool the ESVA systems constitute greatly simplifies management because it presents a single point of administration. Scaling the storage pool is also a very easy task. Whether for more capacity or better performance, all scaling and configuration tasks can be done without disrupting service. Each member ESVA subsystem can be scaled for massive capacity by connecting with expansion enclosures. If you want to increase capacity and promote performance in one shot, you can also scale out the virtualized foundation by adding additional ESVA arrays. When a new system is added, the distributed load balancing technology would dynamically balance workloads among member storage systems so that the processing power can linearly grow.

Maximize Application Productivity

In the competitive business world, downtime not only causes profit loss but can inflict damages on corporate reputation and even end of business. The revolutionary architecture of the ESVA eliminates planned downtime for storage scaling. To support business continuity, it also comes with  storage-based replication capabilities. By strategically deploying snapshot images and full data copies, you can enjoy the highest data availability and minimized service downtime whether the storage suffers from logical errors, physical errors or disasters.

Advanced Hardware Designs

All ESVA arrays are based on High Availability (HA) modular design to achieve high fault-tolerant capability. For better protection of cached data, the ESVA subsystems come with built-in CacheSafe technology. In the event of unscheduled power outage, the BBU will automatically supply power to write cached data into flash memory for permanent retention. Seeing that green IT can benefit both business and the environment, Infortrend enriches the ESVA Series with power saving designs. While cutting down energy expenses for companies, it is also contributing to environmental sustainability.

Features

Storage Virtualization

Eliminate physical boundaries of storage consolidation

Thin Provisioning

Ensure the most efficient allocation of pooled capacity

Distributed Load Balancing

Make performance linearly grow by adding subsystems to the virtualized foundation

Prioritized Volume Accessibility

Ensure applications to achieve their ideal service levels

Data Protection:

Support the highest data availability and quick service restart after storage accidents

Four 8Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Ports

Green Designs:

Fault-Tolerant Hardware Modules

Redundant controllers, PSUs, fans; high-availability hardware design, preventing "Single-Point-of-Failure"

Maxium Expansion of 6 JBOD's via Multi-Lane SAS Links, up to 12 HDD's in total

"Pay-as-you-grow" scalability; no waste on what you don’t need, and no worries about what you will need

Powerfull management suite, SANWatch, support, including multi-pathing functions

Multiple monitoring methods

Real-time problem detection and notification to achieve continuous operation

Specifications

Hardware Configurations



Data Services



Green

Availability and Reliability

Notification

Management

OS Support

Service and Support
(Service may vary by regions)

All ESVA systems are shipped with 3-year Standard Service.

Power

Environmental

Weight (with HDD's)

Accessories