Supermicro with Nebulon Cyber-resilient smartInfrastructure

The first and only combined server-storage solution architected to allow complete ransomware recovery in less than 4 minutes

Solution Overview

Nebulon smartInfrastructure brings the public cloud experience on-premises via a hyper-scaler like cloud operating platform for on-premises IT

Cloud-managed Supermicro Ultra servers that integrates clustered compute, storage, storage services, and cyber-resiliency all in a single solution enabling MSPs and enterprises to:

  • Achieve full Supermicro server-estate ransomware recovery in under 4-minutes
  • Reduce edge footprint with a 2-node solution
  • Do twice as much in half the time with centralized remote fleet management
  • Eliminate server dependencies and overhead of hyperconverged infrastructure

Nebulon transforms your Supermicro Ultra server estate into a hyperscale-like cloud offering with built-in cyber-resilience to protect your most valuable business assets.

Zero-Touch

Zero-Touch

Do twice as much in half the time with centralized remote fleet management
Zero-Drift

Zero-Drift

Consistent and predictable deployments with templated machine images for any application
Zero-Dependency

Zero-Dependency

33% footprint reduction with 2-node alternative, isolated fault domains and OS & hypervisor agnostic for any application
Zero-Trust

Zero-Trust

Four-minute full-stack recovery from ransomware with always-on encryption, crypto-authentication & isolated security domains

Solution Architecture

The Supermicro Nebulon solution is powered by a PCIe-based card called the Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU) that is pre-installed on Supermicro’s Ultra platform. The SPU runs a full stack of enterprise data services for shared or local storage applications, connects directly to the SSDs inside the server, and provides all the storage services needed for bare metal, VMware or Linux-based applications running on that server. The entire clustered solution, either on-premises or at the edge is managed with a cloudbased control plane called Nebulon ON.

Solution Diagram

Nebulon ON: single-API endpoint in the cloud

  • Application owners self-provision infrastructure with customizable application templates tailored for their application clusters
  • AI-assisted administration provided through the cloud

Nebulon Cyber-resilience

  • Nebulon cloud management access separates command and control functions and remain online and available to initiate recovery
  • When infrastructure becomes infected, the management system (offpremises) can direct local recovery services (in a secure domain or ‘panic room’) to roll back to pre-attack operating system and application images
  • Reduce emerging threat vectors within deep infrastructure by keeping server software deployments consistent up front and over time by routinely and automatically reverting to known, good ‘immutable’ server software images

Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU)

Unlike PCIe accelerators that only offload specific storage functions, SPUs run the entire suite of enterprise data services that external storage arrays run.

Server-Based

Server-Based

A hardened plug and play card in your application servers transforms internal SSD capacity to shared and local enterprise-class storage, runs all enterprise data services, is hypervisor/OS agnostic and consumes ZERO server resources.
Cloud Flexibility and Agility

Cloud Flexibility and Agility

A cloud-control plane with API-first, AI-assisted administration provides simple automation, at-scale management including curated application templates, fleet management, predictive analytics, global insights and automated software updates.
Immutability and Security

Immutability and Security

With ImmutableBoot, deploy consistent and predictable operating systems and application configurations. Paired with Nebulon TimeJump, ImmutableBoot allows you to revert to a known, good version of your operating system in just one four-minute operation.
Ransomware Recovery

Ransomware Recovery

Bringing applications back online quickly, reliably and at scale is imperative after a ransomware attack. Nebulon provides not only near-instant restore capabilities for your critical application data but recovers infected operating system volumes, getting you back online and running quickly.

Use Cases

Nebulon smartInfrastructure is designed with enterprise data centers and MSPs in mind. Deliver new services at a lower cost across your on-premises, hosted, and customer-owned data centers. Regardless of the use case that is most important, all Nebulon deployments are packaged with cyber-resiliency and cloud-like scaling capabilities.

Virtualization

Virtualization

Modernize VMware server-storage fleets without feature sacrifice
Containers

Containers

Deploy a simple, cloud-like platform on premises for Kubernetes
SQL

SQL

Simplify single-instance or clustered SQL databases on bare metal
NoSQL

NoSQL

Bring enterprise data services to distributed NoSQL databases or message brokers
Edge

Edge

Deploy a powerful solution for infrastructure at the edge where on-site fleet management and space/power/cost are major concerns

Supermicro–Nebulon Reference Architecture – X11 NVMe

 SYS-2029U-TN24R4T 2U X11 24x NVMe Ultra Server 
 2U X11 UltraQty**
System
  • SYS-2029U-TN24R4T
1
CPU *
  • 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors:
    • Intel® Xeon® 3200 series
    • Intel® Xeon® 4200 series
    • Intel® Xeon® 5200 series
    • Intel® Xeon® 6200 series
    • Intel® Xeon® 8200 series
2
Memory

Select from system HCL

Minimum 4
SPU Power Cable

CBL-PWEX-1017

1
NVMe
  • Capacities: 960GB~8TB
  • Options:
    • Micron 7300 Pro
    • Intel DC P4510/DC P4600
    • Samsung PM983
Minimum 6
OOB

SFT-DCMS-SINGLE

1
Assembly Fee

MC0037

1
Warranty

EWCSC

1
OS Install.PRD-STORAGE1
Nebulon SPUAOC-NB-SPU1-2029N-3Y-2U1
Nebulon ON
Subscription Option
  • SFT-NB-NEBONSPRO1Y
  • SFT-NB-NEBONSPRO3Y
  • SFT-NB-NEBONSPRO5Y
1

* Support TDP up to 205W (without GPU), please contact nebulon-pm@supermicro.com for configuration review.

** Nebulon cluster: minimum 2x nodes

Supermicro–Nebulon Reference Architecture – X11 SATA

 SYS-1029U-E Series SYS-2029U-E Series 
 1U X11 UltraQty12U X11 UltraQty2
Supermicro SKU Option
  • SYS-1029U-E1CRT
  • SYS-1029U-E1CR4
  • SYS-1029U-E1CR4T
  • SYS-1029U-E1CRTP
1
  • SYS-2029U-E1CRT
  • SYS-2029U-E1CR4
  • SYS-2029U-E1CR4T
  • SYS-2029U-E1CRTP
1
Storage Media Option
  • Micron 5300 Pro (480GB~7.68TB)
  • Intel S4510 (480GB~7.68TB)
6~10
  • Micron 5300 Pro (480GB~7.68TB)
  • Intel S4510 (480GB~7.68TB)
6~24
CPU Option3
  • Intel® Xeon® 3200 series
  • Intel® Xeon® 4200 series
  • Intel® Xeon® 5200 series
  • Intel® Xeon® 6200 series
  • Intel® Xeon® 8200 series
2
  • Intel® Xeon® 3200 series
  • Intel® Xeon® 4200 series
  • Intel® Xeon® 5200 series
  • Intel® Xeon® 6200 series
  • Intel® Xeon® 8200 series
2
Nebulon SPUAOC-NB-NEBSPUSM100-3Y-1U1AOC-NB-NEBSPUSM100-3Y1
Nebulon ON
Subscription Option
  • SFT-NB-NEBONSPRO1Y
  • SFT-NB-NEBONSPRO3Y
  • SFT-NB-NEBONSPRO5Y
1
  • SFT-NB-NEBONSPRO1Y
  • SFT-NB-NEBONSPRO3Y
  • SFT-NB-NEBONSPRO5Y
1

1 Minimum cluster size: 2x nodes.

2 Minimum cluster size: 2x nodes.

3 Please contact nebulon-pm@supermicro.com for details on CPU limitation & configuration.

Certified Servers for Supermicro-Nebulon Reference Architecture

Supermicro Ultra

Supermicro Ultra Servers are designed to deliver the highest performance, flexibility, scalability and serviceability to demanding IT environments, and to power mission-critical Enterprise workloads. With Redundant Titanium Level (96%+) Power Supplies (1000W), Supermicro Ultra Servers are able to provide green computing solutions to our customers while delivering unrivaled performance, flexibility, scalability, and serviceability for demanding Enterprise workloads.

Ultra SuperServers support up to: 6TB DDR4 2933MHz in 24 DIMMs; SATA3 with optional SAS3 and NVMe support for increased storage bandwidth; a variety of Ultra Riser options, including built-in 1G, 10GBASE-T, 10G SFP+, and 25G Ethernet options; support for add-on SAS3 HW/SW RAID controllers and additional PCI-E 3.0 slots. Supermicro Ultra Servers is the best fit for diverse workloads and applications and can be easily reconfigured for multiple Enterprise and Data Center applications in Virtualization, Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Computing.

Ultra Benefits

  • Support for new generation X11 Solutions with Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor up to 205W
  • Up to 6TB DDR4 2933MHz in 24 DIMM slots
  • 100/40/25/10G Ethernet
  • NVMe/SAS3/SATA3 Drive Bays
  • Up to 8/4 PCI-E 3.0 Expansion Slots
  • Redundant Titanium Level (96%+) Power Supplies
SYS-2029U-TN24R4T
  • Dual Socket P (LGA 3647) support: 2nd Gen. Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors; dual UPI up to 10.4GT/s
  • 24 DIMMs; up to 6TB 3DS ECC DDR4-2933 MHz RDIMM/LRDIMM
  • Supports Intel® Optane™ DCPMM*
  • 24 Hot-swap 2.5" drive bays: 24 NVMe (4 hybrid ports - SAS3 via opt. AOC)
  • 2 PCI-E 3.0 x16 (FH, 10.5" L) slots, 1 PCI-E 3.0 x8 (LP) slot
  • 4x 10GBase-T ports
  • 1 Dedicated IPMI port
  • 2 VGA (1 rear, 1 onboard), 1 Serial, 3 USB 3.0 (2 rear, 1 Type A)
  • 4 heavy duty 8cm PWM fans
  • 1600W Redundant Titanium Level (96%) Power Supplies

*Contact your Supermicro sales rep for more info.

SYS-1029U-E1CRT/E1CR4T/E1CRTP
10x 2.5" SAS3 Flexible Network Opt.
  • Virtualization, Cloud Computing, High End Enterprise Server
  • Dual Socket P (LGA 3647) support: 2nd Gen. Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors; dual UPI up to 10.4GT/s
  • 24 DIMMs; up to 6TB 3DS ECC DDR4-2933 MHz RDIMM/LRDIMM
  • Supports Intel® Optane™ DCPMM*
  • 10 Hot-swap 2.5" drive bays; 10 SAS3 via optional AOC
  • 2 PCI-E 3.0 x16, 2 PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots (1 LP, 1 internal LP)
  • 2 PCI-E 3.0 x16 (FH, 10.5" L), 1 PCI-E 3.0 x8 (1 LP), 1 PCI-E 3.0 x16 (internal LP) - SYS-1029U-E1CR25M
  • Networking Options:
    • SYS-1029U-E1CRT - 2x 10GBase-T ports
    • SYS-1029U-E1CR4 - 4x 1GbE ports
    • SYS-1029U-E1CR4T - 4x 10GBase-T ports
    • SYS-1029U-E1CRTP - 2x 10G SFP+ ports
  • 1 Dedicated IPMI port, 2 VGA (1 rear, 1 onboard), 1 COM/Serial
  • 5 USB 3.0 (2 rear, 2 front, 1 Type A)
  • 8 heavy duty fans w/ optimal fan speed control
  • 750W Redundant Platinum Level Power Supplies

*Contact your Supermicro sales rep for more info.

SYS-2029U-E1CRT/E1CR4T/E1CRTP
24x 2.5" SAS3 Opt. 4 NVMe Flexible Network Opt.
  • Dual Socket P (LGA 3647) support: 2nd Gen. Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors; dual UPI up to 10.4GT/s
  • 24 DIMMs; up to 6TB 3DS ECC DDR4-2933 MHz RDIMM/LRDIMM
  • Supports Intel® Optane™ DCPMM*
  • 24 Hot-swap 2.5" drive bays; optional 20 SAS3 + 4 NVMe/SAS3, 2 rear Hot-swap 2.5" drive bays
  • Expansion Slots:
    • 8 PCI-E Slots: 1 PCI-E 3.0 x16, 6 PCI-E 3.0 x8, 1 Internal PCI-E 3.0 x8
    • 7 PCI-E Slots (SYS-2029U-E1CR4T): 2 PCI-E 3.0 x16, 5 PCI-E 3.0 x8
  • Networking Options:
    • SYS-2029U-E1CRT – 2x 10GBase-T ports
    • SYS-2029U-E1CR4 – 4x 1GbE ports
    • SYS-2029U-E1CR4T – 4x 10GBase-T ports
    • SYS-2029U-E1CRTP – 2x 10G SFP+ ports
  • 1 Dedicated IPMI port
  • 2 VGA (1 rear, 1 onboard), 1 Serial, 3 USB 3.0 (2 rear, 1 Type A)
  • 4 heavy duty 8cm PWM fans
  • 1000W Redundant Titanium Level (96%) Power Supplies

*Contact your Supermicro sales rep for more info.

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