Supermicro NVMesh Storage Solutions
Low-latency distributed block storage for web-scale data centers
Solution Overview
New application workloads are driving the need for new storage architectures: Cloud, Edge, AI and IoT bring new latency requirements – therefore companies need to rethink their storage strategies.
Supermicro and Excelero have joined forces to deliver a high-performance, low-latency distributed block storage solution leveraging NVMe flash. The Supermicro NVMesh solution enables unmodified applications to utilize pooled NVMe storage devices across a network at local speeds and latencies. It was designed to combine virtually unlimited Supermicro servers with NVMe to scale capacity and performance.
Solution Key Benefits:
- Maximize the utilization of your NVMe SSDs
- Predictable application performance
- Supports standard hardware & protocols
- Use as block storage or with any file system
- Easy to manage & monitor
Product Brief
The Supermicro NVMesh Reference Architecture implements the next-generation of intelligent infrastructure platforms designed to provide applications with all of the raw performance you can expect from local storage — and all of the flexibility, manageability and scalability typically experienced with traditional storage area network-based solutions. Leveraging the latest NVMe and PCIe standards, this reference architecture uses a low-latency, high-bandwidth networking to connect compute and storage together in a flexible way that will fit almost any application’s architecture requirements. Deploy this RA in storage-centric, compute-centric or mixed storage and compute configurations, and integrate it with existing data center application servers as desired.
Supermicro NVMesh Reference Architecture
| BigTwin Server | Ultra Server | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Form Factor | 2U 4 nodes | 2U 1node |
| Storage Media | 24x 6.4 TB or 8 TB NVMe SSD devices | 24x 6.4TB or 8TB NVMe SSD devices |
| CPU (two per node) | Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 family for X10 BigTwin or Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for X11 BigTwin |
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 family for X10 Ultra or Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for X11 Ultra |
| Memory | suggested 192GB DDR4 2666 per node | suggested 192GB DDR4 2666 per node |
| Network | up to 8 Mellanox ConnectX 5 VPI NIC | up to 2 Mellanox Connect 5 VPI NIC |
| RAW Capacity | up to 48TB per node (192TB per BigTwin) | up to 192TB per node |
| Available Data Protection | Fully Distributed RAID, enabling linear scale of performance and capacity | |
| Infrastructure Support | RoCEv2; Infiniband | |
| IOPs Performance | up to 20M random 4k | up to 5M random 4k |
| Throughput Performance | up to 76GB/s | up to 24GB/s |
| IO Latency | Alike the local NVMe SSD Latency | |
| Performance Density | 38GB/s or 10M IOPs per RU | 12GB/s or 2.5M IOPs per RU |
| Management | CLI, GUI, REST API | CLI, GUI, REST API |
| Operating System Support | Linux | |
| File System Support | POSIX like as ext4 and xfs, plus GPFS, BeeGFS & Lustre | |
| Excelero Software | NVMesh Client | |
| NVMesh Target | ||
| Available Excelero Service | NVMesh 3y premium support | |
| NVMesh Install Service, On-site | ||
| Available Supermicro Service | 3-year onsite 24x7x4 service / 3-year onsite next business day service | |
| Onsite Integration Services Onsite Survey Onsite logistics Racking & Cabling (with 3rd party switches) Racking & Cabling Engineering Drawing Releasing (Test included) | ||
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