VDURA and Supermicro:
Leading Parallel File Performance at Mixed-Fleet Economics

VDURA is modern data storage infrastructure software purpose-built for AI and HPC. Running on Supermicro's open, industry-standard servers and storage platforms, VDURA delivers true parallel file system performance with the economics of a mixed-fleet architecture, pairing NVMe flash for GPU-feeding throughput with high-capacity HDD for cost-efficient scale. One namespace. One control plane. Linear scaling from petabytes to exabytes.

Proven across 1,000+ production deployments in 50+ countries, VDURA's 25+ year heritage as the inventor of the parallel file system now powers the world's most demanding GPU clouds, AI factories, federal agencies, research labs and Fortune 500 enterprises. The same mixed-tier storage model that the Hyperscalers run in production, now available on Supermicro commodity hardware with no proprietary lock-in.

VDURA and Supermicro Advantage

Parallel Performance, Mixed-Fleet Economics

VDURA's HYDRA architecture intelligently tiers data across NVMe flash and high-capacity HDD in a single namespace, delivering parallel file system performance on Supermicro's open hardware at a fraction of flash-only cost. In one recent federal GPU deployment, this approach cut cost-per-terabyte by over 60% and improved energy efficiency by 44%.

Optimized for GPU-Accelerated AI Workloads

DirectFlow client is a loadable Linux kernel module that feeds GPUs at multi-TB/s throughput with near-zero CPU and memory overhead on compute nodes. Combined with the distributed VeLO metadata engine and client-side erasure coding, there are no protocol gateways, no NFS bottlenecks, and no wasted GPU cycles on storage middleware. VDURA has first AI Data Storage Reference design with AMD and exceeds GPU performance requirements for both NVIDIA and AMD production level, and high-resolution models.

Enterprise Durability, Proven at Exascale

Multi-level N+2 erasure coding delivers up to 12 nines of data durability. Backed by 25+ years of PanFS heritage, 1000+ production deployments and battle-tested in the most demanding AI and HPC Workloads. VDURA on Supermicro is trusted where downtime and data loss are not options. Six nines availability increases with scale.

More Performance per Watt

VDURA on Supermicro delivers 2x+ better performance per watt than comparable flash-only systems, reducing rack power, cooling load and data center footprint.

2U Hyper-U A+ Server

2U Hyper-U with 12 hot-swap 3.5" drive bays and up to 8 PCIe 5.0 slots

Key Features:

  • Single AMD EPYC™ 9004/9005* Series Processor (*AMD EPYC™ 9005 series drop-in support requires board revision 2.x) Support up to DDR5 24 DIMM slots (2DPC) (Please check System Memory Section for detail)
  • Optional PCIe slot configurations up to 8 PCIe 5.0 x8 or 4 PCIe 5.0 x16 slots or mix and match
  • Flexible networking options with 1 AIOM networking slot (OCP NIC 3.0 compatible)
  • 12 Hot-swap 3.5"/2.5" NVMe/SATA/SAS drive bays, 2 M.2 PCIe 3.0 NVMe slots
  • Support up to 4 GPUs
  • Dual 1200W Redundant Titanium Level power supplies (Power supply full redundancy based on configuration and application load)
Supermicro 2U Hyper-U system (AS -2015HS-TNR) for VDURA Solution

AS -2015HS-TNR

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90-Bay Top-Load JBOD

4U • 90 x 3.5" SAS3 • 12Gb/s Single Expander • 2000W 1+1 Redundant

Key Features:

  • Single-Path Storage Enclosure
  • Single canister controllers with field serviceable tray
  • Support 90 3.5"/2.5" Top Loading SATA 6Gb/s / SAS3 12Gb/s Hot-Swappable HDDs
  • 6x SAS3.0 IO ports (MiniSAS HD/SFF-8644)
  • Dedicated IPMI RJ45 management port
  • Redfish OOB management protocol support
  • SCSI Enclosure Services SES-4 support
  • Hot-swappable Tool-less Modular Design for Easy Service and Easy Maintenance
  • Redundant Titanium 2000W power supply
Supermicro 4U 90-Bay Top-Loading JBOD (CSE-947HE1C-R2K05JBOD) for VDURA Solution

CSE-947HE1C-R2K05JBOD

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VDURA Data Platform on Supermicro

V5000 Configuration options
V5000 configuration options, left to right: all flash, 50 percent flash, 98 percent HDD.

The VDURA Data Platform is modern data storage infrastructure software that runs on Supermicro's industry-standard server and storage platforms. VDURA holds the first AI Data Storage Reference Design with AMD and is a technology partner with NVIDIA. Configure from 100% flash for low-latency inference to mixed-fleet NVMe + HDD for cost-optimized training and retention, all under a single namespace with intelligent data tiering and end-to-end encryption. Start at a single rack. Scale linearly to exabytes.

Configurations range from all-flash NVMe for inference and checkpoint-heavy workloads, to hybrid NVMe + HDD for cost-optimized training and long-tail data, all managed under one global namespace with intelligent data tiering and end-to-end encryption.

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