Description, Specifications for Infortrend EonStor GSi Family
EonStor GSi Family
Gaining Competitive Advantages with AI and Machine Learning
EonStor GSi storage family is an AI storage appliance designed for enterprises that demand integrated system and combines compute (GPU and CPU), storage (SAN and NAS), network and cloud in an all-in-one box. Essentially, GSi is the GS storage with integrated GPUs and Docker platform with GUI that can easily implement machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) applications. It also supports popular frameworks such as TensorFlow, Caffe and more.
Deploy AI with GSi
GSi has two series: GSi 3000 and GSi 5000.
GSi 3000 is a cost-effective inference solution best suited for AI-enhanced IoT and edge computing. GSi 5000 is a high performance solution fitting for ML/DL model training.
Implement AI Solution the Easier Way
GSi incorporates Compute (GPU and CPU), storage (SAN and NAS), network, and Cloud in an all-in-one box. With a built-in AI environment called Docker, enterprise can get into AI right away, easy implementation without complicated hardware and software setups.

Support Major AI Frameworks
GSi supports popular frameworks such Caffe, Caffe2, CNTK, MXNet, TensorFlow, and Theano, allowing organizations to implement ML/DL applications such as facial recognition, intelligent video analytics, financial modeling, medical analysis, and others.

Manage AI Applications with User Friendly GUI
GSi comes with EonOne, the central management software, as well as GUI-based Docker interface to easily develop and deploy applications. Furthermore, EonOne can manage multiple systems, monitoring GPU and capacity usage, and complete of all system-related configurations.

App Store on Docker
A Software Platform Allows User to Run and Manage Applications
The App Store features templates for various Docker container imagesartificial intelligence (AI), Internet of things (IoT), video surveillance, and much more. A template specifies a Docker container image along with preset parameters of the execution environment. By using a template, you can quickly deploy and run a Docker container with little fuss.

GSi's Inherited Features from GS
Powerful NAS, SAN, and Cloud Storage Capability
GSi inherited GS line's superior storage capability and supports file-level, block-level, and cloud applications with PB-level capacity, high throughput, and data protection features. With this capability, all training dataset are saved, processed, and retrieved within the appliance for maximum performance.
PB-level Capacity
GSi supports 316/436 drives expand so no extra external storage is required
High Throughput
GSi can handle large amounts training data
Data Protection
GSi supports IDR (Intelligent Drive Recovery) and SED (Self-encrypting drives) to ensure that all training data and training models are well-preserved
Connect to the Cloud with EonCloud Gateway
GSi supports major cloud services such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack Swift, Google Cloud, Wasabi Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Cloud and Tencent Cloud with EonCloud Gateway and can optimize data storage resources between edge and cloud. It also provides cloud backup, cloud cache and cloud tiering functions. For example, you can set all training dataset to have a backup copy in the cloud when unexpected happens.

GSi Use Case
Smart City
AI helps solve, or at least, ease some problems in city's topography such as finding parking spaces, recording surveillance videos of the city's every nook and cranny, notifying vehicular accidents, and others. For Smart City application, the storage capacity and the IO throughput are important considerations. EonStor GSi 3016 can support 800 video (h.264-encoded) streams simultaneously. And with NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPU installed, its DeepStream SDK helps process 25+ real time video streams in high resolution quality. With regards to storage capacity, GSi 3016 can provide of up to 316 hard drives and store 25 video streams recording for 5.7+ years. (12TB, RAID 5)
For a smart city idea to become a reality, a lot of elements must come together. GSi 3016's EonCloud Gateway synchronizes the data to the same cloud provider for model training and deploys the inference back to the GSi system as the production device. You can easily control your data from edge to cloud and back.

Configuration
- Platform: GSi 3016 with one NVIDIA Tesla GPU P4
- Stream Support: 800+ (h.264-encoded)
- Storage Capacity: 5.7+ years (25 video streams recording)
Healthcare
In healthcare industry, AI application provides faster results in data analysis and diagnostic concerns. It helps identify the genetic information of someone with a particular medical condition. In addition, patients who don't have easy access to their healthcare providers can send their medical conditions via photographs taken by their camera phones and let the providers analyze the images with AI image analysis, a type of telemedicine. This system is faster and more effective for the providers to give near accurate diagnosis to their patients. Because of high and powerful demand in medical data process and access, GSi 5016 supports multiple GPUs with high sequential 5.4GB read/ 4.2GB write throughput performance and maximum capacity up to 436 hard drives and store 7.6 billion CT (512*512 units16 resolution) images. (12TB, RAID5)

Configuration
- Training Platform: GSi 5016 with two GPUs
- Process Time: 150 CT images/second at 512*512 unit16 resolution without compression (base on ResNet-50 benchmark)
- Storage Capacity: 7.6 billion CT images (512*512 unit16 resolution)
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3 Steps to Implementing AI Applications with Infortrend GSi
EonStor GSi 3000
Cost-effective inference solution for AIoT & edge computing
EonStor GSi 3000 series is a cost-effective inference solution for production deployment of DL/ML applications. It supports single GPU with build-in GUI based Docker and provides integrated cloud gateway to optimize storage and compute resources between edge and cloud for various AI applications.
Model
GSi 3016
Form Factor
3U 16-bay
Controller
Single controller
PCI-E Slot for GPU
1 x PCI-E 3.0 x 8 slot
Rear I/O Ports
- 4 x 1GbE ports (RJ-45)
- 2 x USB 2.0
- 2 x USB 3.0
- 1 x 6Gb/s SAS port
Cache Memory
Default DDR3 32GB
Maximum Number of Drives
- Per system: 16
- Via expansion enclosure: 316
Drive Interface
6Gb/s SAS
Drive Advanced Features
- S.M.A.R.T. support
- Automatic bad-sector reassignment
- Dedicated bandwidth to each connected drive
Supported Drives
- 2.5" SAS SSDs
- 2.5" SATA SSDs
- 2.5" 10,000 RPM SAS drives
- 3.5" 7,200 RPM Nearline SAS drives
- 3.5" 7,200 RPM SATA drives
Protocol Support
- File Level Protocol
- CIFS / SMB
- AFP
- NFS
- FTP
- FXP
- WebDAV
- Block Level Protocol
- iSCSI
- Object Protocol
- RESTful API
Cloud Gateway
EonCloud Gateway supports integration with the following cloud providers:
- Amazon S3
- Microsoft Azure
- Alibaba Cloud
- Google Cloud
- Baidu Cloud
- Tencent Cloud
- OpenStack
- Wasabi
- Yandex
- hiCloud
RAID Functionality
- Global, designated or enclosure hot-spare
- RAID levels supported : RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60
- Online expansion by:
- Adding new drives
- Copying and replacing drives with drives of larger capacity
- RAID migration
- Configurable stripe size and write policy per system
- Intelligent drive handling
- In degraded mode: skips irreparable blocks to continue rebuild
- In normal operation: data-block verification and repair
Green Design
- 80 PLUS-certified power supplies delivering more than 80% energy efficiency
- Intelligent multi-level drive spin-down
Notification
Various event notification methods including email and SNMP trap.
Management
- User account management
- Group management
- Folder management - folder access control
- Quota management
- Integration with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and LDAP
- Folder encryption with AES
- Web-based EonOne management software
- Storage Resource Management to analyze history records of resource usage
Network Configuration
- IPv6 support
- Fixed or dynamic IP address
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet with Jumbo Frame
- Port trunking, NIC teaming, Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)
- DHCP client
- MPIO, MC/S support
Access Right Management
- User account management
- Group management
- Folder management
- Folder and subfolder access control - Folder quota
- Comprehensive access control action items
- All Controls, Read, Read and Run, Write, Modify, List - Support Windows Active Directory Authentication
- Domain Users Login via CIFS/ SMB, AFP, FTP, and file explorer - LDAP on Linux
OS Support
Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2012 R2 / 2016 (including Hyper-V), Windows 7 SP1 / Windows 8.1, RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Sun Solaris, Mac OS X, VMware, Citrix XenServer
- NFS protocol running on VMWare environment is currently not supported
Service and Support
Standard service
- 3-year limited hardware/software warranty and 8x5 phone, web, and email support
?Upgrade/Extension service (optional and service may vary by region)
- replacement part dispatch on the next business day (up to 5 years)
Power
- Power supplies: Redundant/hot-swappable 530W x 2
- AC voltage: 100VAC @ 10A to 240VAC @ 5A with PFC (auto-switching)
- Frequency: 50-60 Hz
Environmental
- Temperature:
- Operating: 5 to 35°C
- Non-operating: -40 to 60°
- Altitude: Sea level to 3048m(10000ft) operating / sea level to 12,192m (40,000ft) non-operating
- Relative humidity: 5 to 95% non-condensing, operating and non-operating
Safety Standard
- Safety: UL, BSMI, CB
- Electromagnetic compatibility: CE, BSMI, FCC
Dimensions (W x H x D)
Without chassis ears / protrusions
447.4 x 130 x 524.20 mm
Weight
22kg/ 48.50lbs (without HDDs)
Package Dimensions (W x H x D)
590 x 410 x 880 mm
EonStor GSi 5000
High performance solution for training DL/ML models
EonStor GSi 5000 series is a high performance solution for training DL/ML models. It supports multiple GPUs with build-in GUI based Docker and provides integrated cloud gateway to optimize storage and compute resources between edge and cloud for various AI applications.
Model
GSi 5016
Form Factor
3U 16-bay
Controller
Single controller
PCI-E Slot for GPU
2 x PCI-E 3.0 x 16 slots
Rear I/O Ports
- 2 x 10GbE Port (SFP+)
- 4 x 1GbE ports (RJ-45)
- 2x USB 2.0
- 2x USB 3.0
- 1x 12Gb/s SAS expansion port
Cache Memory
Default DDR4 64GB, upgradable to 128GB, 256GB, 512GB or 1024GB
Maximum Number of Drives
- Per system: 16
- Via expansion enclosure: 436
Drive Interface
12Gb/s SAS
Drive Advanced Features
- S.M.A.R.T. support
- Automatic bad-sector reassignment
- Dedicated bandwidth to each connected drive
Supported Drives
- 2.5" SAS SSDs
- 2.5" SATA SSDs
- 2.5" 10,000 RPM SAS drives
- 3.5" 7,200 RPM Nearline SAS drives
- 3.5" 7,200 RPM SATA drives
Protocol Support
- File Level Protocol
- CIFS / SMB
- AFP
- NFS
- FTP
- FXP
- WebDAV
- Block Level Protocol
- iSCSI
- Object Protocol
- RESTful API
Cloud Gateway
EonCloud Gateway supports integration with the following cloud providers:
- Amazon S3
- Microsoft Azure
- Alibaba Cloud
- Google Cloud
- Baidu Cloud
- Tencent Cloud
- OpenStack
- Wasabi
- Yandex
- hiCloud
RAID Functionality
- Global, designated or enclosure hot-spare
- RAID levels supported : RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60
- Online expansion by:
- Adding new drives
- Copying and replacing drives with drives of larger capacity
- RAID migration
- Configurable stripe size and write policy per system
- Intelligent drive handling
- In degraded mode: skips irreparable blocks to continue rebuild
- In normal operation: data-block verification and repair
Green Design
- 80 PLUS-certified power supplies delivering more than 80% energy efficiency
- Intelligent multi-level drive spin-down
Notification
Various event notification methods including email and SNMP trap.
Management
- User account management
- Group management
- Folder management - folder access control
- Quota management
- Integration with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and LDAP
- Folder encryption with AES
- Web-based EonOne management software
- Storage Resource Management to analyze history records of resource usage
Network Configuration
- IPv6 support
- Fixed or dynamic IP address
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet with Jumbo Frame
- Port trunking, NIC teaming, Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)
- DHCP client
- MPIO, MC/S support
Access Right Management
- User account management
- Group management
- Folder management
- Folder and subfolder access control - Folder quota
- Comprehensive access control action items
- All Controls, Read, Read and Run, Write, Modify, List - Support Windows Active Directory Authentication
- Domain Users Login via CIFS/ SMB, AFP, FTP, and file explorer - LDAP on Linux
OS Support
Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2012 R2 / 2016 (including Hyper-V), Windows 7 SP1 / Windows 8.1, RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Sun Solaris, Mac OS X, VMware, Citrix XenServer
- NFS protocol running on VMWare environment is currently not supported
Service and Support
Standard service
- 3-year limited hardware/software warranty and 8x5 phone, web, and email support
?Upgrade/Extension service (optional and service may vary by region)
- replacement part dispatch on the next business day (up to 5 years)
PSU
- Power supplies: Redundant/hot-swappable 1200W x 2
- AC voltage: 100-127VAC/12.47A, 200-240VAC/7.08A with PFC (auto-switching)
- Frequency: 47-63Hz
Environmental
- Temperature:
- Operating: 5 to 35°C
- Non-operating: -40 to 60°
- Altitude: Sea level to 3048m(10000ft) operating / sea level to 12,192m (40,000ft) non-operating
- Relative humidity: 5 to 95% non-condensing, operating and non-operating
Safety Standard
- Safety: UL, BSMI, CB
- Electromagnetic compatibility: CE, BSMI, FCC
Dimensions (W x H x D)
Without chassis ears / protrusions
447.4 x 130 x 524.20 mm
Weight
22kg/ 48.50lbs (without HDDs)
Package Dimensions (W x H x D)
590 x 410 x 880 mm