Lenovo GSS features include:
- Scalable building block approach to Technical Computing storage
- Four base configurations—Model 21s (1 JBOD), Model 22s (2 JBODs), Model 24 (4 JBODs) and Model 26 (6 JBODs)
- Powerful Intel® Xeon® processors
- 1.2TB, 3TB, 4TB and 6TB drives available
- Dense spinning-disk capacity, plus up to six solid state drives for performance and system management
- Choice of FDR InfiniBand or Ethernet interconnects—or both
- Declustered RAID for sustained, predictable performance and rapid rebuilds
- No hardware controllers—Disk management and RAID performed by the GPFS Native RAID feature
Solutions made simple
Deploying solutions for Technical Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC), Analytics and Cloud environments can place a significant burden on IT. The Lenovo Solution for GPFS Storage Server (GSS), fulfilled through the Lenovo Intelligent Cluster, leverages decades of experience to reduce the complexity of deployment with integrated, delivered and fully-supported solutions that match best-in-industry components with optimized solution design. With the Lenovo GSS, clients can focus their efforts on maximizing business value, instead of consuming valuable resources to design, optimize, install and support the infrastructure required to meet business demands. The Lenovo GSS (GSS21s, GSS22s, GSS24 and GSS26) combines the performance of Lenovo System x servers with industry-leading GPFS software to offer a high-performance, scalable building-block approach to modern storage needs. The Lenovo GSS allows organizations to start small and build via incremental additions, providing expanded capacity and bandwidth with each additional GSS building-block.
Optimized design
The Lenovo GSS features industry-leading System x servers with powerful Intel® Xeon® processors, storage enclosures and drives, software and networking components that allow for a wide choice of technology within an integrated, delivered solution. Each solution is tested and optimized for reliability, interoperability and maximum performance, so clients can quickly deploy the system and get to work achieving their business goals. With GSS, you gain all the reliability, integration and interoperability of an Intelligent Cluster solution, all within a high-capacity, GPFS-based storage architecture.
Increase results
Clients are expanding the use of Technical Computing and HPC to solve complex problems with a need for high-capacity storage and low-latency data access with quick rebuild times in the event of disk failure. Clients are looking for a low per-terabyte price. As an integral part of the Intelligent Cluster portfolio, the Native RAID capability of the Lenovo GSS provides extreme data integrity, reliability and flexibility. The Declustered RAID technology of the Lenovo GSS delivers rebuild times up to 400 percent faster. These
