Inspur AS5500G7 Hybrid Flash Storage Array

The Inspur AS5500G7 is an enterprise-grade hybrid flash storage array designed for mid-range unified SAN and NAS deployments, combining NVMe-accelerated cache tiers with high-capacity HDD storage pools to deliver balanced performance and density. Built on Inspur's seventh-generation storage platform, the system supports simultaneous FC, iSCSI, and NAS (NFS/CIFS/SMB) protocol access, enabling organizations to consolidate block and file workloads onto a single, centrally managed infrastructure. The controller architecture employs active-active dual controllers for continuous availability, with non-disruptive failover and inline data services including deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning.

The AS5500G7 is engineered for data-intensive environments that require predictable latency alongside large usable capacity. Its tiered storage engine automatically migrates frequently accessed data to the NVMe flash cache layer while cold data resides on high-density SAS or NL-SAS drives, optimizing both throughput and total capacity economics. Support for synchronous and asynchronous remote replication enables disaster recovery configurations, and snapshot-based local data protection provides granular recovery point objectives suited to production databases and virtual machine environments.

Targeted at hospitals, universities, and enterprise IT departments, the AS5500G7 supports VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and OpenStack environments through native integration APIs and multipathing support. Its scale-out expansion model allows organizations to add drive enclosures without service interruption, protecting infrastructure investment as storage demands grow. Centralized management is provided through Inspur's storage management software, offering monitoring, performance analytics, QoS policy management, and capacity forecasting from a unified console.

Ideal for

• Consolidated SAN/NAS storage for hospital electronic health record (EHR) systems and medical imaging PACS repositories requiring high availability and unified protocol access
• University HPC and research data management combining high-throughput NFS file services for compute clusters with iSCSI block storage for virtualized administrative workloads
• Enterprise virtual machine infrastructure consolidation under VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V with tiered auto-storage placement and storage vMotion compatibility
• Database storage for Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL deployments benefiting from NVMe cache acceleration and QoS isolation between production and development tenants
• Backup and disaster recovery target leveraging asynchronous replication to a secondary site and snapshot-based recovery for defined RPO/RTO service levels
• Multi-department shared storage consolidation enabling storage resource pooling across IT, finance, and operations with role-based administration and per-volume capacity quotas

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.