能源效能
Lowers your power costs while benefiting the environment
IT efficiency is the core of green IT. To help users optimize energy efficiency in their data centers, Infortrend has developed many software technologies and hardware designs to optimize our storage systems. Through storage virtualization, scattered storage resources can be consolidated beyond physical boundaries for efficient utilization and management. The technologies of thin provisioning and distributed load balancing further ensure users to achieve necessary capacity and performance with optimized return on investment. To support tiered storage, Infortrend storage systems provide flexible drive support. By placing often-accessed, critical data on high-performance drives and large-sized, static data on capacity-oriented drives, users can meet various application requirements at optimal cost-efficiency. The hardware platforms of Infortrend are also enhanced with advanced power-saving designs. 80 PLUS Silver-certified power supplies deliver more than 85% of energy efficiency to support the powerful systems while intelligent multi-level drive spin-down can help users save up to 65% of power. Bearing financial and environmental consciousness, Infortend takes the green initiative to cut business energy bills while contributing to environmental sustainability.
Benefits
Infortrend improves your storage energy efficiency with:
Storage virtualization
- Consolidates multiple storage systems into a single pool which can be easily managed and dynamically expanded as needed
Thin provisioning
- Enables "just-in-time" capacity allocation to eliminate wasted space, power and cooling expenses on large and underutilized data volumes
Distributed load balancing
- Evenly distributes workloads among storage systems to maximize performance utilization
Flexible drive support
- Supports mixing high-performance FC or SAS drives and large-capacity SATA drives in a single installation to deploy tiered storage
80 PLUS Silver-certified power supplies
- Powers high-performance storage at exceptional energy efficiency
Intelligent multi-level drive spin-down
- Detects I/O activities to automatically adjust drive rotational speed with level flexibility
Products of Choice
For storage virtualization, thin provisioning and distributed load balancing
For flexible drive support
For 80 PLUS Silver-certified power supplies
For intelligent multi-level drive spin-down
All EonStor and ESVA storage systems using firmware ver. 3.64J and 3.64P or later provide the feature of intelligent multi-level drive spin-down, but the drives they accommodate have to support power-saving/spin-down features.
