Supermicro Debuts 115TB All-Flash Software-Defined Storage Solution

Super Micro Computer, Inc. is collaborating with Nexenta and HGST to develop a turnkey scale-up high performance unified block and file storage solution optimized for high performance data-centric environments. The new solution is a combination of Supermicro’s 2U Ultra SuperServer integrated with Nexenta’s NexentaStor and featuring SSDs from HGST (Ultrastar SSD800MH.B and Ultrastar SSD1600MM). This makes the second integration of NexentaStor in an all-flash array in the last two days, the first being with SanDisk.

Super Micro Computer, Inc. is collaborating with Nexenta and HGST to develop a turnkey scale-up high performance unified block and file storage solution optimized for high performance data-centric environments. The new solution is a combination of Supermicro’s 2U Ultra SuperServer integrated with Nexenta’s NexentaStor and featuring SSDs from HGST (Ultrastar SSD800MH.B and Ultrastar SSD1600MM). This makes the second integration of NexentaStor in an all-flash array in the last two days, the first being with SanDisk.

This new combined solutions is geared toward enterprise and cloud environments. The all-flash configuration gives organizations the performance they need for the most demanding mission-critical applications in physical or virtualized infrastructure environments. NexentaStor provides unified file and block storage for maximum data integrity and high availability. The solutions start in capacities of 19TB and maxes out at 115TB.

Solution Specifications

• Controller Node
  • 2x 2U Ultra SuperServer (SYS-6028U-NEX2) – dual Intel Xeon processor E5-2643 v3 (3.4GHz, 6-core), 256GB (16x 16GB DIMMs), NexentaStor 4.0 software, 12Gbps SAS HBAs, 2x dual 10GbE SFP+ ports (NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS, SMB 2.1, iSCSI)
• Storage Enclosures
  • 19TB JBOD Cluster (SRS-NSM019-HGST-01-NS017) – 24x 2.5” hot-swap HGST 800GB SSDs
  • 38TB JBOD Cluster (SRS-NSM038-HGST-01-NS017) – 24x 2.5” hot-swap HGST 1600GB SSDs
  • 76TB JBOD Cluster (SRS-NSM076-HGST-01-NS017) – 48x 2.5” hot-swap HGST 1600GB SSDs
  • 115TB JBOD Cluster (SRS-NSM115-HGST-01-NS017) – 72x 2.5” hot-swap HGST 1600GB SSDs
• Performance
  • Sub millisecond latency
  • Up to 200,000 32KB IOPS and 6 GB/s maximum throughput

Availability and pricing

Specific availability hasn’t been given yet but the price given is between $2/Raw GB to $3.5/Raw GB depending on the configuration.

Supermicro and Nexenta Software-Defined Storage Solutions

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