Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced new versions of its
market-proven top-loading storage solutions with 60-bay and 90-bay
systems along with new Simply Double storage systems fully optimized for
the latest 3rd Gen
Intel Xeon Scalable processors and PCI-E 4.0 NVMe drives. These
best-in-class high-capacity storage and expansion systems are ideal for
cloud-scale storage implementations as well as HPC storage workloads.
"As
the growth in software-defined, cloud-based storage continues to
accelerate, Supermicro helps data centers to rapidly modernize their
infrastructure to leverage flexible configuration, tool-less modular
designs that can be serviced by a technician, and simple expansion
capabilities with our new X12 60-bay or 90-bay single, dual node and
high availability architecture innovation," said Charles Liang,
president, and CEO, Supermicro. "Our new high-capacity storage systems
continue Supermicro's focus on resource saving and delivers
industry-leading capacity for a lower total cost of ownership (TCO)."
Top-Loading Storage Systems
Supermicro's
new top-loading architecture delivers improved flexibility, modularity,
and serviceability that customers require. Both 60-bay and 90-bay
systems are available in single-node, dual-node, and dual-node high
availability (HA) configurations. The dual-node HA and single-node
configurations control access to all drives in the systems. The
dual-node configuration evenly split the drive control access between
each node. With a modular, tool-less design, all critical onboard
systems - hot-swap server nodes, expanders, fan modules, power supplies,
and drives - are fully optimized for easy serviceability by one
technician.
Supermicro's
new high-capacity top-loading systems are optimized for enterprise and
cloud-scale storage environments. This scale-up and scale-out
architectures design offers customers the configuration options of
PCI-E 4.0-based RAID or IT mode SAS controller. These 4U systems feature
60 or 90 hot-swap 2.5" or 3.5" SAS3/SATA3 bays plus two onboard PCI-E
M.2 slots and two internal slim SATA SSD slots. The single-node system
also supports two rear hot-swap 2.5" bays for OS mirroring and four
optional NVMe U.2 bays for fast caching. The system supports 1.6
petabytes of cost-optimized storage at the maximum configuration, plus
up to 60TB of SSD flash via the rear-accessed NVMe. The single- and
dual-node systems use 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors in a
dual-socket configuration with 16 DIMM slots per server node.
Simply Double Storage Systems
Supermicro's
Simply Double storage server is an industry-leading solution for
content delivery. Today's announcement introduces performance and
serviceability enhancements to the overall design to support 3rd Gen
Intel Xeon Scalable processors in a dual-socket configuration with 16
DIMMs while maintaining the same dense storage footprint. Up to four
rear hot-swap U.2 NVMe bays are supported, allowing users to add flash
without sacrificing any of the 24 SAS/SATA 3.5" storage bays. Innovative
chassis design enhances airflow and streamlines system service
accessibility to components such as the motherboard, CPU, memory, PCI-E
slots, internal drive bays, and rear drive bays. Along with these
mechanical improvements, the system can be configured with the options
of PCI-E 4.0-based RAID or IT mode SAS controller.