Unified storage

1. Unified storage: One storage support both block-level and file-level services. This helps to simplify the data center architecture, reduce operation and maintenance costs, and respond to different business needs.
2. Protocol convergence: Support iSCSI and FC to meet the storage requirements of different applications, such as database, file sharing, cloud computing.

Advanced architecture

1. Scale-Out architecture: Support online horizontal expansion and up to 2 controllers, enabling customers’ storage resources to grow linearly to meet the changing business needs.
2. High availability: Adopt a fully redundant architecture, fully modular, redundant cache, and active-active controller design.
3. High scalability: Support up to 577 hard drives and a maximum cache of 64GB.
4. Intelligent cache (64GB): Improve overall storage performance and eliminate performance bottlenecks in complex application environments.

Intelligent software

1. Intelligent local replication: Three local data protection mechanisms: clone, snapshot, backup. The combination can meet the needs of application testing, development, analysis, backup, etc. It effectively saves storage space and reduces investment costs.
2. Intelligent volume mirroring: Volume mirroring function allows one volume have two copies, which can keep the IO access uninterrupted when one of the copy is damaged.
3. Intelligent tiering: Hotspot data can migrate online between different storage mediums to optimize storage cost and performance and improve customers’ ROI.
4. Intelligent heterogeneous virtualization: Allow to take over third-party storage resources and form a unified virtual resource pool. Data protection, data migration between storages are provided.
5. Intelligent thin-provisioning: Physical space no longer limits resource allocation. Support on-demand allocation to reduce early-stage investment and improve the utilization rate of storage resources. Full-capacity thin-provisioning allows over-allocation of the storage and the granularity level is adjustable (32k, 64k, 128k, 256k). It supports the creation of a single volume of up to 256TB. No additional license is required for subsequent expansion.
6. Intelligent management software: An intelligent management software that supports unified storage management of the G2 series. Also, an intelligent maintenance management system is built-in to reduce related costs and improve efficiency.
7. Intelligent cloud tiering (unique in the industry): The unique hybrid cloud storage infrastructure supports cache, disaster recovery, backup in the cloud environment. Support cloud backup or restore without purchasing any backup software. Thus, reduce backup complexity and effectively protect data security. Combine the cost-effective and highly-scalable cloud storage with the local data center architecture, and make sure seamless flow of data between the local data center and the public cloud.