AppsStorage CS Concerto Family

The Next-Gen Shared Storage with High Scalability and Performance

CS Concerto is a scale-out shared storage solution that allows enterprises to address the sheer volume of data via its scalable capacity and linear-increasing performance. The scalability through a scale-out expansion offers an easier and more cost-effective way of managing growing data in the agile enterprises while reducing consequent performance bottlenecks. CS Concerto also improves data utilization and simplifies data management by integrating data from all nodes into one cluster system. The superior performance and scalability make CS suitable for a wide range of data-intensive industries and applications such as media and entertainment (M&E), high-performance computing (HPC), video surveillance, file sharing, and backup. With CS Conerto, enterprises gain speedy process for storage expansion and data migration. CS Concerto can keep up as the business grows, making it the optimized data storage and management solution.


Product Highlights

High Performance and Capacity

CS Conerto is a scale-out NAS storage system. By adding more CS units (nodes), you get a high performance/capacity cluster system with up to 100+ GBps Read/Write speed and more than 100PB of storage for the needs of future data growth. It also supports Auto-balancing function that evenly distributes data across all nodes in the system. When a large number of users access data simultaneously, the system shares the workload through parallel processing, solving the problem of a single node performance limitation and effectively improving the access efficiency.

High Performance and Capacity

Lightning-Fast All-Flash Platform

CS offers an all-flash model, CS 4025B, to deliver optimal SSD performance, including low latency, extended SSD lifespan, and faster data transfer. The all-flash CS supports up to 3,400/2,000 MB/s Read/Write speed per single node and 40Gb/s RDMA node-to-node connection to provide lightning-speed access to mission-critical workloads of such applications as HPC and M&E. Moreover, the all-flash model allows users to maximize system efficiency by allocating data in different pools based on file access frequency or file status. For example, less used data can be stored in high capacity all-HDD pool and hot data in high performance all-flash pool. In this way, you can meet both the requirements of shorter response time and massive capacity with optimized costs.

Lightning-Fast All-Flash Platform

High Scalability

CS Concerto supports two capacity expansion solutions, horizontal scalability (scale-out) and vertical scalability (scale-up). The scale-out expansion allows you to add more devices (up to 144 nodes) to increase both capacity and performance. The entire cluster performance can reach 100+ GBps (Read/Write) and more than 100PB capacity. The benefit of using scale-out is that you increase performance and capacity at the same time. CS Concerto also supports scale-up scalability, which allows you to add up to 84 disks to increase storage space.

High Scalability

Complete Data Protection

To prevent critical data loss and ensure continuous storage services, CS Concerto is designed with the support of multi-layer data protection on hard disks, node, and cluster levels. If any of the elements fails, neither the data will be lost, nor the system performance will be affected.

If a hard disk gets damaged, Infortrend's exclusive RAID technology ensures that the system runs normally at the same level of performance. In terms of node protection, Replica and Erasure Code protection functions help to avoid downtime from a single node of failure. If a node failure is detected, CS initiates self-healing function to recover the data from a faulty node.

On cluster level, you can use the Rsync feature for remote backup of the cluster file to remote cluster or remote NAS.

Complete Data Protection

High Availability

With the data protection design like RAID, Replica/Erasure code,  CS Concerto feature high availability for disk, node levels.

The network interface trunk group provide not only the bandwidth aggregation but also preventing single path failure.

Besides, CS Concerto also has the redundant hardware component design including PSU, FAN module, helps out the hardware availability, when one component is down, the other component can still provide the power and heat dissipation, these components are also modular for easy component maintenance.

Last but not the least, the firmware for CS Concerto can also be upgraded without cluster downtime to make sure the cluster service continuity.

High Availability

High Security

To secure extremely critical data, CS Concerto provides SED (Self-Encrypting Drive) and WORM (Write Once Read Many) data protection mechanism. SED protects confidential data from being hacked, malware and malicious behavior. It automatically executes full disk encryption when a write job is performed by using the embedded encryption key. Encrypted data is decrypted before leaving the drive when a read request is met. WORM is especially useful for organizations that are required to meet archival demands and struggling to keep pace with their growing data storage. It provides cost-effective data storage, which cannot be deleted, edited, over-written, or corrupted.

High Security

Easy Management

CS Concerto simplifies the deployment and management tasks with both hardware and software designs.

EonOne management software provides an intuitive user interface for centralized management of multiple systems, monitoring of performance and capacity usage, and completion of all related system configurations.

On the hardware side, CS Concerto adopts cable-less and modular design, allowing you to expand nodes or add expansion enclosures without interrupting system operation. CS Concerto also comes with redundant key components such as power supplies, controllers, and fans. These features give enterprises a very robust system that is easier to maintain and reduce the risk of downtime, providing a non-stop delivery of services.

CS cluster supports All-HDD and All-Flash hybrid configuration. This hybrid configuration is especially suitable for HPC and M&E applications, which workload requirements include high-performance computing and massive data storage capacity. Moreover, you can set different protection levels for each pool. For example, you can choose Erasure Code to protect massive data while saving the storage space.

Easy Management

Use Case

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Due to the rise of Industrial IoT and AI, size and amount of data that organizations have to deal with are dramatically increasing. Hence, there appears a need for high-performance computing (HPC) to process, store, and perform complex calculations of massive amounts of data at very high speeds for real-time data analytics and strategy decision making. Deploying hybrid configuration supporting flexible data allocation allows to deliver maximum system efficiency: hot data folders are stored in high performance All-Flash pool for HPC processes, while folders with already analyzed not-active data migrate to high capacity All-HDD pool.

The Oil and Gas industry needs to collect all the oil drilling data from various sensors, such as seismic surveys, well logs, fluid analyses, and static and flowing pressure measurements. To enhance performance, those data are acquired and analyzed through distributed computing. In light of this, CS Concerto is considered a perfect shared storage solution as it allows to keep up with high-performance computing architecture and system expansion.

Advantages
  • High Capacity Scalability and Performance: Up to 100PB of storage with maintaining the same performance level (100+ GBps Read/Write speed) as the system expands.
  • Flexible Platform Design: Hot data folders stored on All-Flash pool for high performance computing processes, while cold data folders migrate to high capacity HDD pool.
  • Full Data Protection: A variety of data protection mechanisms, such as Rsync, SED hard disk encryption, Write Once Read Many (WORM), and SSL encryption, which is extremely important for mission-critical applications, such as oil and gas production.
  • File Sharing: CS Concerto can be used as a shared storage for all oil and gas exploration data logs, such as seismic surveys, well logs, fluid analyses, pressure measurements, and records of the monthly injected volumes of EOR fluids (water, gas, CO2 , steam, chemicals). These files in the form of structured documents, PDFs, handwritten notes, audio or video files, are stored on CS Concerto for easy access and effective collaboration between different departments.

Use Case - High Performance Computing (HPC)

Media & Entertainment (M&E)

CS Concerto is an ideal solution for today’s Media and Entertainment industry processing 4K and 8K ultra high-resolution videos. It targets larger-scale video production companies with staff more than 10 people and growing business.  CS Concerto features highly scalable performance and capacity, which can deliver an optimized and expandable solution as your media business develops. It comes with Infortend’s management software EonOne. The browser-based software allows you to configure, monitor, and manage the storage system easily, so it allows the video editing team to focus more on video content creation and improving productivity.

Moreover, CS provides extremely high data security and lower TCO, which makes it well received in M&E industry.  CS Concerto can be applied to radio and television HD non-linear sharing, high-speed rendering synthesis, media asset archiving, and media asset data disaster recovery backup.

Advantages
  • High Performance I/O: High-resolution files can be accessed by team members simultaneously, bringing the ultimate experience of collaborative high-speed data management.
  • Massive Data Storage and Elastic Scaling: Scale-out and scale-up expansion for HD editing and production. Storage nodes can expand seamlessly online without interrupting services, and performance grows linearly as the number of nodes increases.
  • Load Balancing: When many users access data simultaneously, the system shares the workload through parallel processing across all nodes in the system, avoiding single node performance limitations.
  • Easy Management: User-friendly web GUI.

Use Case - Media & Entertainment (M&E)

CS Concerto 2000

High-density Scale-out Enterprise NAS system

The industry leading scale-out NAS system CS Concerto 2000 is a perfect fit for applications that require massive storage capacity, such as backup and archive. Featuring advanced 4-core CPU, CS Concerto 2000 provides reliable performance and scalability to process ever-growing workloads.

Features & Detailed Specifications

Model: 

  • 2060S x 3 • Three Node Backup Cluster, 3 x 4U/60 bay, 180 x 12TB SAS12 HDD 7200 RPM 
  • 2060S x 5 • Five Node Backup Cluster, 5 x 4U/60 bay, 300 x 12TB SAS12 HDD 7200 RPM

Form Factor:  4U 60-bay

Controller:  G: single not upgradable to dual

Number of Nodes:  1 to 144

Cache Memory (per node):  Default DDR4 64GB, up to 128GB or 256GB

Front-end Networking (per node):  10GbE (SFP+) x 2 or 10GbE (SFP+) x 4 or 25GbE (SFP28) x 2 or 40GbE (QSFP+) x 2

Internal Network (per node)

10GbE (SFP+) x 2 or 25GbE (SFP28) x 2 or 40GbE (QSFP+) x 2

Network Types Combinations

  • Combination 1: Onboard 10GbE x 2 (Front-end) + Onboard 10GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 2: Onboard 10GbE x 4 (Front-end) + Host Board 25GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 3: Onboard 10GbE x 4 (Front-end) + Host Board 40GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 4: Host Board 25GbE x 2 (Front-end) + Host Board 25GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 5: Host Board 40GbE x 2 (Front-end) + Host Board 40GbE x 2 (Internal)

Drive Interface:  12Gb/s SAS

Support Drives:  3.5" nearline SAS or SATA HDD

For the latest compatibility details, please refer to the CS Compatibility Matrix

Max. Drives (per node):  120

The maximum drive number varies with models.

Data Protection:

  • Disk protection: RAID5, RAID6
  • Node protection: Erasure code (2+1 or 4+1 or 4+2 or 8+1 or 8+2) or Replica (x2 or x3)
  • Cluster protection: Rsync

Data Service:  SED (self-encrypting drives)

Protocol Support:  CIFS/SMB, NFS, FTP

Management:

  • ACL control
  • Quota management
  • User account management
  • Web-based EonOne management software
  • Microsoft Active Directory (AD), LDAP and NIS authentication
  • Storage Resource Management to analyze history records of resource usage

Notification:  Email, SNMP traps

Expansion Enclosure (JBOD):  JB 3060L

Availability and Reliability:  WORM, SMB Multichannel, Self-healing design

Safety Standard:

  • Safety: UL, BSMI, CB
  • Electromagnetic compatibility: CE, BSMI, FCC

Green Design:

  • 80 PLUS-certified power supplies delivering more than 80% energy efficiency
  • Intelligent multi-level drive spin-down

Power Supply Unit:

  • Power supplies: 1600W (80 PLUS Platinum)
  • AC voltage: 100-127VAC @13.8A to 200-240VAC @9.6A with PFC (auto-switching)
  • Frequency: 47-63 Hz

Environmental:

  • Temperature:
    • Operating: 5 to 40°C
    • Non-operating: -40 to 60°C
  • Altitude:
    • Operating: Sea level to 3,660m (12,000ft)
    • Non-operating: Sea level to 12,192m (40,000ft)
  • Relative humidity: 5 to 95% non-condensing, operating or non-operating

Service and Support:

  • Five (5) Years Next Busines Day Advanced Replacment Warranty/Support
  • Service upgrade options: replacement part dispatch on the next business day
    • Advanced service: 24x7 phone, web, and email support + onsite diagnostics on the next business day
    • Premium service: 24x7 phone, web, and email support + onsite diagnostics in 4 hours
  • Infortrend Technical Support: FAQ, Download Center, Licensing Service and Service Request

Dimensions (W x H x D):  Without chassis ears and protrusions, 447.6 x 176 x 840.9 mm

Package Dimensions (W x H x D):  620 x 460 x 1,140 mm

CS Concerto 3000

Scale-out Enterprise NAS storage

The CS Concerto 3000 is a scale-out enterprise NAS storage solution for growing networks offering the best cost/performance ratio. Equipped with 8-core processor, CS Concerto 3000 features linear-increasing performance and instant horizontal capacity scalability with minimized deployment/management efforts, complete data protection.

Features & DetailedSpecifications

Model:

  • CS 3016G
  • CS 3024G
  • CS 3060G / 3060D

Form Factor:

  • 3U 16-bay
  • 4U 24-bay
  • 4U 60-bay

Controller:

  • G: single not upgradable to dual

Number of Nodes:  1 to 144

Cache Memory (per node):  Default DDR4 64GB, up to 128GB or 256GB

Front-end Networking (per node):

10GbE (SFP+) x 2 or 10GbE (SFP+) x 4 or 25GbE (SFP28) x 2 or 40GbE (QSFP+) x 2

Internal Network (per node)

10GbE (SFP+) x 2 or 25GbE (SFP28) x 2 or 40GbE (QSFP+) x 2

Network Types Combinations:

  • Combination 1: Onboard 10GbE x 2 (Front-end) + Onboard 10GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 2: Onboard 10GbE x 4 (Front-end) + Host Board 25GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 3: Onboard 10GbE x 4 (Front-end) + Host Board 40GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 4: Host Board 25GbE x 2 (Front-end) + Host Board 25GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 5: Host Board 40GbE x 2 (Front-end) + Host Board 40GbE x 2 (Internal)

Drive Interface:

12Gb/s SAS

Support Drives:

3.5" nearline SAS or SATA HDD

For the latest compatibility details, please refer to the CS Compatibility Matrix

Max. Drives (per node):  120

The maximum drive number varies with models.

Data Protection:

  • Disk protection: RAID5, RAID6
  • Node protection: Erasure code (2+1 or 4+1 or 4+2 or 8+1 or 8+2) or Replica (x2 or x3)
  • Cluster protection: Rsync

Data Service:

SED (self-encrypting drives)

Protocol Support:

CIFS/SMB, NFS, FTP

Management:

  • ACL control
  • Quota management
  • User account management
  • Web-based EonOne management software
  • Microsoft Active Directory (AD), LDAP and NIS authentication
  • Storage Resource Management to analyze history records of resource usage

Notification:  Email, SNMP traps

Expansion Enclosure (JBOD):  JB 3016, JB 3060L

Availability and Reliability:

WORM, SMB Multichannel, Self-healing design

Safety Standard:

  • Safety: UL, BSMI, CB
  • Electromagnetic compatibility: CE, BSMI, FCC

Green Design:

  • 80 PLUS-certified power supplies delivering more than 80% energy efficiency
  • Intelligent multi-level drive spin-down

Power Supply Unit:

  • Power supplies:
    • 4U 60-bay: 1600W (80 PLUS Platinum)
    • The other form factors: 530W (80 PLUS Bronze)
  • AC voltage: 100-127VAC @13.8A to 200-240VAC @9.6A with PFC (auto-switching)
  • Frequency: 47-63 Hz

Environmental:

  • Temperature:
    • Operating: 5 to 40°C
    • Non-operating: -40 to 60°C
  • Altitude:
    • Operating: Sea level to 3,660m (12,000ft)
    • Non-operating: Sea level to 12,192m (40,000ft)
  • Relative humidity: 5 to 95% non-condensing, operating or non-operating

Service and Support:

  • Five (5) Years Next Busines Day Advanced Replacment Warranty/Support
  • Warranty extension options: can extend standard service
  • Service upgrade options: replacement part dispatch on the next business day
    • Advanced service: 24x7 phone, web, and email support + onsite diagnostics on the next business day
    • Premium service: 24x7 phone, web, and email support + onsite diagnostics in 4 hours (can be upgraded to 5 years)
  • Infortrend Technical Support: FAQ, Download Center, Licensing Service and Service Request

Dimensions (W x H x D):

  • 3U 16-bay: 449 x 130 x 500 mm
  • 4U 24-bay: 449 x 174.4 x 500 mm
  • 4U 60-bay: 447.6 x 176 x 840.9 mm

Package Dimensions (W x H x D):

  • 3U 16-bay: 780 x 423 x 588 mm
  • 4U 24-bay: 780 x 465 x 588 mm
  • 4U 60-bay: 620 x 460 x 1,140 mm

Weight (without HDDs):

  • 3U 16-bay: 34.83 lbs (15.8 kg)
  • 4U 24-bay: 47.02 lbs (21.32 kg)
  • 4U 60-bay: 69.45 lbs (31.5 kg)

CS Concerto 4000

High-performance Scale-out Enterprise NAS system

The industry leading scale-out NAS system CS Concerto 4000 is a perfect fit for extensive I/O workloads and data-rich applications. Featuring advanced 12-core CPU, CS Concerto 4000 provides ultimate performance and scalability to perform processing of massive amounts of data at very high speeds and, thus, can be easily integrated in HPC infrastructure.

Features & Detailed Specifications

Model:

  • 4025 x 3 SSD • Three Node Performance Cluster, 3 x 2U/25 bay, 75 x 3.2TB SAS12 EF SSD DWPD=3
    4025 x 3 SSD • Three Node Performance Cluster, 3 x 2U/25 bay, 75 x 6.4TB SAS12 EF SSD DWPD=3
  • 4024 x 3 • Three Node Performance Cluster, 3 x 4U/24 bay, 72 x 10TB SAS12 HDD 7200 RPM
    4024 x 3 • Three Node Performance Cluster, 3 x 4U/24 bay, 72 x 14TB SAS12 HDD 7200 RPM
  • 4060D • Two Node Performance Cluster, 1 x 4U/60 bay, 60 x 10TB SAS12 HDD 7200 RPM
    4060D • Two Node Performance Cluster, 1 x 4U/60 bay, 60 x 14TB SAS12 HDD 7200 RPM
    4060D x 3 • Six Node Performance Cluster, 3 x 4U/60 bay, 180 x 10TB SAS12 HDD 7200 RPM
    4060D x 3 • Six Node Performance Cluster, 3 x 4U/60 bay, 180 x 14TB SAS12 HDD 7200 RPM

Form Factor:

  • 2U 25-bay
  • 3U 16-bay
  • 4U 24-bay
  • 4U 60-bay

Controller:

  • G: single not upgradable to dual

Number of Nodes:  1 to 144

Cache Memory (per node):  Default DDR4 64GB, up to 128GB or 256GB

Front-end Networking (per node):

10GbE (SFP+) x 2 or 10GbE (SFP+) x 4 or 25GbE (SFP28) x 2 or 40GbE (QSFP+) x 2

Internal Network (per node):

10GbE (SFP+) x 2 or 25GbE (SFP28) x 2 or 40GbE (QSFP+) x 2

Network Types Combinations:

  • Combination 1: Onboard 10GbE x 2 (Front-end) + Onboard 10GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 2: Onboard 10GbE x 4 (Front-end) + Host Board 25GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 3: Onboard 10GbE x 4 (Front-end) + Host Board 40GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 4: Host Board 25GbE x 2 (Front-end) + Host Board 25GbE x 2 (Internal)
  • Combination 5: Host Board 40GbE x 2 (Front-end) + Host Board 40GbE x 2 (Internal)

Drive Interface:  12Gb/s SAS

Support Drives:

  • 2U 25-bay supports 2.5" SAS or SATA SSD
  • The other form factors support 3.5" nearline SAS or SATA HDD

For the latest compatibility details, please refer to the CS Compatibility Matrix

Max. Drives (per node):  120

The maximum drive number varies with models.

Data Protection:

  • Disk protection: RAID5, RAID6
  • Node protection: Erasure code (2+1 or 4+1 or 4+2 or 8+1 or 8+2) or Replica (x2 or x3)
  • Cluster protection: Rsync

Data Service:

SED (self-encrypting drives)

Protocol Support

CIFS/SMB, NFS, FTP

Management:

  • ACL control
  • Quota management
  • User account management
  • Web-based EonOne management software
  • Microsoft Active Directory (AD), LDAP and NIS authentication
  • Storage Resource Management to analyze history records of resource usage

Notification:  Email, SNMP traps

Expansion Enclosure (JBOD):  JB 3025B, JB 3016, JB 3060L

Availability and Reliability:

WORM, SMB Multichannel, Self-healing design

Safety Standard:

  • Safety: UL, BSMI, CB
  • Electromagnetic compatibility: CE, BSMI, FCC

Green Design:

  • 80 PLUS-certified power supplies delivering more than 80% energy efficiency
  • Intelligent multi-level drive spin-down

Power Supply Unit:

  • Power supplies:
    • 4U 60-bay: 1600W (80 PLUS Platinum)
    • The other form factors: 530W (80 PLUS Bronze)
  • AC voltage: 100-127VAC @13.8A to 200-240VAC @9.6A with PFC (auto-switching)
  • Frequency: 47-63 Hz

Environmental:

  • Temperature:
    • Operating: 5 to 40°C
    • Non-operating: -40 to 60°C
  • Altitude:
    • Operating: Sea level to 3,660m (12,000ft)
    • Non-operating: Sea level to 12,192m (40,000ft)
  • Relative humidity: 5 to 95% non-condensing, operating or non-operating

Service and Support:

  • Five (5) Years Next Busines Day Advanced Replacment Warranty/Support
  • Warranty extension options: can extend standard service
  • Service upgrade options: replacement part dispatch on the next business day
    • Advanced service: 24x7 phone, web, and email support + onsite diagnostics on the next business day
    • Premium service: 24x7 phone, web, and email support + onsite diagnostics in 4 hours
  • Infortrend Technical Support: FAQ, Download Center, Licensing Service and Service Request

Dimensions (W x H x D):

  • 2U 25-bay: 449 x 88 x 500 mm
  • 3U 16-bay: 449 x 130 x 500 mm
  • 4U 24-bay: 449 x 174.4 x 500 mm
  • 4U 60-bay: 447.6 x 176 x 840.9 mm

Package Dimensions (W x H x D):

  • 2U 25-bay: 780 x 340 x 588 mm
  • 3U 16-bay: 780 x 423 x 588 mm
  • 4U 24-bay: 780 x 465 x 588 mm
  • 4U 60-bay: 620 x 460 x 1,140 mm

Weight (without HDDs):

  • 2U 25-bay: 48.5 lbs (22.5 kg)
  • 3U 16-bay: 34.81 lbs (15.79 kg)
  • 4U 24-bay: 47.02 lbs (21.32 kg)
  • 4U 60-bay: 123.46 lbs (56.5 kg)

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